CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (July 31, 2023) – Twelve of the state’s top junior golfers will represent Missouri at this year’s Southern Junior Cup Matches. The Southern Junior Cup Matches is a Ryder Cup-style match play event where teams of junior golfers from Missouri, Alabama and Arkansas all gather to compete.
The states take turns hosting the event each season, and this year, it will be held at Dalhousie Golf Club in Cape Girardeau, Missouri from August 2-3.
There are six boys and six girls representing Missouri. Let’s meet them!
Rylie Andrews recently graduated from St. Joseph’s Academy in St. Louis, where she was on the varsity golf team. She will be playing collegiately for Missouri State starting this fall. She competed in this year’s Women’s Amateur Championship and Junior Amateur Championship.
Savannah Thessing is from Nixa, Missouri, and a senior at New Covenant Academy. She played in this year’s Junior Amateur Championship, and at our MJT event at L A Nickell, where she won her division.
Tierney Baumstark is from Columbia, and she just graduated from Rock Bridge High School. She will continue her golf career at Missouri State this fall. She was one of this year’s MWGEA Scholarship recipients. She has played in MGA events for several years, and was the 2022 Junior Match Play Champion. This is her second year on Missouri’s Southern Junior Cup team.
Hanna Maschhoff is a senior at School of the Osage. She won her division at this year’s Mozingo Lake Invitational, and placed third at the Junior Amateur Championship. She also competed in the Junior Match Play Championship and the Women’s Amateur Championship.
Sophie Hinds is from Jefferson City and plays golf for Helias Catholic High School. She has played in MGA events for many years, and she is very active in the Missouri Junior Tour. She also competed in the Junior Amateur Championship and the Junior Match Play Championship this season.
The final girl on Team Missouri is KC Lenox, who is a junior at St. Joseph’s Academy. She played in this year’s Junior Amateur Championship and Women’s Amateur Championship, where she placed eighth.
Jaxon Bailey is a junior and plays golf at Monett High School. This season, he competed in the Jefferson City Four Ball Championship, tying for fourth place, the Junior Amateur Championship and the Junior Match Play Championship.
Andrew Fallis is from Columbia and recently graduated from Tolton Catholic High School. He will play golf collegiately at Missouri State starting this fall. He competed in this year’s Junior Amateur Championship, placing seventh.
Teagen Hull is from Eldon and a rising senior. Teagen is very involved in the MGA and regularly competes in MJT events and Championships. He won his division at this year’s Mozingo Lake Invitational and was the 2022 Junior Amateur Champion. He also played in this year’s Missouri Amateur Championship, and the Junior Match Play and Junior Amateur Championships.
Anson Munzlinger is from Columbia, Missouri, and is the youngest person on Team Missouri at age 14! He was this year’s runner-up at the Junior Match Play Championship, and he qualified for and competed in the Missouri Amateur Championship.
Quinn Thomas is a rising senior at Hannibal High School. He won the Class 4 State Individual Championship as a freshman. He also qualified for and competed in the 2022 Missouri Amateur Championship at Bellerive Country Club, and qualified for the United States Junior Amateur this year.
The final team member is Archer Schnieders! He is a senior at Helias High School in Jefferson City, and he is this year’s Junior Amateur Champion! He also qualified for and competed in the Missouri Amateur Championship this year, placed third at the Junior Match Play Championship, tied for fifth in the Stroke Play Championship, and tied for ninth at the Jefferson City Four Ball Championship.
Congratulations to each team member for being selected, and good luck this week!
To learn more about the Southern Junior Cup Matches, click here: https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/3977945
For more information on other MGA events, contact the MGA office at (573) 636-8994 or at mogolf@mogolf.org.
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ABOUT MGA: The Missouri Golf Association is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote the best interests and true spirit of the game of golf throughout the State of Missouri.
The Missouri Golf Association was started in St. Louis in 1905 to run the Amateur Championship. Four founding clubs would be the ones in existence in St. Louis in those early years – St. Louis Country Club, Algonquin Golf Club, Glen Echo Golf Club and Normandie Golf Club. Four years later, the invite-only Missouri Amateur was held in Kansas City at Evanston Club. 1911 marked the real organization of the MGA with Bonner Miller as Secretary and Executive Director. Ever since then, the MGA has striven to provide tournaments and spaces for Missouri golfers to sharpen their skills and enjoy the game.
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