Four-fifths of the Florida Times-Union All-First Coast high school girls golf team will play in the Florida State Junior Girls Championship June 22-24 at the Mayacoo Lakes Country Club in West Palm Beach.
Sahana Chokshi (Episcopal), Lily Chiang (Stanton), Sophia Moody (Fleming Island) and Chloe McGrath (Bolles) lead a contingent of nine players from the First Coast in the field.
Also entered are three players who were on the All-First Coast second team, Grace Brefitt (Bolles), Sophie Cavanagh (Nease) and Stella Moritz (Ponte Vedra).
Also playing are Aspen Bikowski of St. Johns and Lily Wachter of St. Augustine.
The FSGA Junior Boys tournament will be June 30-July 1 at Cabot Citrus Farms in Brooksville.
Nancy Cox transfers to Oklahoma
Nancy Cox, a two-time Times-Union high school player of the year from Ponte Vedra High, has transferred from Florida Atlantic to the University of Oklahoma.
Cox, who is the defending champion of the First Coast Women’s Amateur, announced the move on her Instagram account. Oklahoma also announced the transfer on its X account.
Cox led the Owls in scoring average as a sophomore in 2025-26 (73.33), with seven top-25 finishes and two top-10s. She was on the All-AAC team.
She joins a Sooners team that reached the SEC quarterfinals and finished eighth in the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional. Oklahoma loses five seniors among its 10-player roster.
San Jose event returns to benefit Wolfson
A dream for the three children of San Jose Country Club director of golf Todd Bork will have a second chapter.
The second annual Wolfson Children’s Hospital Scramble will be Aug. 31 at San Jose, with an 11 a.m. shotgun start. The tournament was started last year by Jackson, Joshua and Jordan Bork to raise funds for Wolfson’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Jackson and Joshua Bork, 18-year-old twins, were in the unit for 90 days after they were born in 2008 at 28 weeks old. Their sister, Jordan, is 16.
The Borks raised around $26,000 last year.
Entry can be made online through the Golf Genius app or through the San Jose pro shop. Mail-in registration is available. Send information to San Jose Country Club (attention Todd Bork), 7529 San Jose Blvd., Jacksonville, 32217. Make checks out to Baptist Health Foundation and note “San Jose Golf Tournament” on the check.
The entry fee of $400 per team includes a box lunch, heavy hors d’oeuvres after play, gifts and prizes, including a two-night stay at The Roxy in New York. There will be a putting contest and a hole-in-one prize.
There are also sponsorship opportunities through title sponsorship, tee gifts, beverage cart, after-party or holes.
Additional information can be obtained by calling (904) 477-7536.
Deerwood hosts FSGA Senior Amateur
Past Jacksonville Amateur champions Robert Goettlicher and Ken Moody are among the area players in the field for the Florida State Golf Association Senior Amateur Match Play June 22-25 at the Deerwood Country Club.
Also in the field are past JAGA Senior champions John Lobb, Chuck Kirk, Richard Ames and Mark Spencer.
The field of 88 will be pared down to the low 32 after 36 holes of stroke play. Match play begins on June 24.
Jay Huntley latest to reach U.S. Junior
Jay Huntley of Jacksonville Beach shot 71, then emerged from a four-for-two playoff at the Delray Dunes Golf and Country Club on June 17 to qualify for the U.S. Junior July 20-25 at the Saucon Valley Golf Club in Bethlehem, Pa.
Huntley, 14, is the fourth First Coast player to qualify for the tournament, with 14 more local qualifiers remaining until July 1. Phillip Dunham of Ponte Vedra Beach shot 66 and was the co-medalist of a qualifier on June 1 at the Heathrow Country Club in Orlando (Charlie Woods shot 68 to nail down the last qualifying spot).
Miles Russell of Jacksonville Beach and Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island are exempt to the U.S. Junior. Russell was a quarterfinalist last year and Mawhinney got into the field by being among the top 40 on the World Amateur Rankings.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: All-First Coast players flock to Florida Junior Girls Championship
Reporting by Garry Smits, Jacksonville Florida Times-Union / Florida Times-Union
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