Bodhi Moore of Cobb made it a clean sweep of local junior tournaments on Thursday by shooting 79 to win the 31st annual Lake County Junior Golf Championship at Adams Springs Golf Course on Cobb Mountain. Moore struggled early in his round and turned in a front nine score of 43 following a quadruple bogey eight on the par four 3rd hole. That left Moore tied atop the leader board through the first 13 holes of competition. However he was able to right the ship and played the final five holes at -1 under par. Bodhi ended up shooting 36 over the course of the back nine to come in with an aggregate score of 79 to win the County Junior by five shots.
Moore is a talented three sport athlete at Middletown High School entering his senior year this coming August. As a junior he was all-conference in soccer, all league in basketball, and all-conference in golf. This past Monday he also won the Buckingham Sunner Junior. His victory in the Lake County Junior resulted in Bodhi receiving a fully paid exemption into the long running Lake County Amateur that is being held at Adams Springs over the weekend of August 24-25.
Nate Sherman shot a 101. Playing in the 16-17 age bracket alongside Moore, Sherman is a three year member of the Kelseyville High School golf team. He too will begin his senior campaign in next month.
The surprise runner-up in the County Junior was 15-year-old Jake Lyndall. Lyndall will be starting his freshman year at Kelseyville High School in the fall. A naturally gifted athlete, Lyndall has been playing golf for less than one year and the Junior was his first bit of competition in the sport. He shot a front nine 43 but didn’t have any idea of how close he was to winning the County Junior as he was playing in the group behind Bodhi Moore. He shot a 41 on the back nine to come in with an 84. He captured the flight for 14-15 year old boys.
Patick Seau, the golf team captain at Santa Rosa High School, finished in second place in the 14-15 age division after shooting 94. He will be a sophomore at Santa Rosa next month and played in the two Lake County junior tournaments while visiting his grandparents. Cody DeJong of Hidden Valley Lake finished third after posting a 99. He is an incoming freshman at Middletown High School. Jimmy Reynolds, who played on the Middletown High golf team last spring, finished in fourth place after shooting a 110 while Peyton Willis of Hidden Valley Lake carded a 122. Peyton will be a freshman in the fall at MHS.
Max Stine of Hidden Valley Lake won a tightly contest division for 13 year old boys, shooting a 101 to win by two strokes over Jake Smart. Stine will be an 8th grader at Middletown Middle School while Smart will be starting his freshman year at Kelseyville High School. Andy Zimmerle of Hidden Valley Lake shot 111.
In the boys bracket for11-12 year olds, Lyle Valador of Mountain Vista Middle School in Kelseyville made par on his final hole to win his age division with a nine hole score of 62 by one stroke. Finishing a very close second was Caden Mullins of San Francisco who posted a 63. Mullins attends St. Phillip Elementary School in the City.
The Lake County Junior was sponsored by Eddie and Linda Mullins, the owners of Adams Springs Golf Course, along with the Adams Springs Women’s Golf Club, the Adams Springs Golf Club, Deb Wallace of Middletown, and John and Julie Berry. The tournament volunteers included John Flynn, Jerry Pendleton, Franz Waltenspuhl, Kelseyville High School golf coach Tim Conrad, Liz Berry, Dennis Layton, and Julie Berry.
Bodhi Moore wins Lake County Junior
Bodhi Moore of Cobb, a three time all conference golfer for the Middletown High School golf team, showed himself to be the cream of the crop when he overwhelmed the rest of the field to win the Buckingham Summer Junior Golf Classic this past Monday. An outstanding athlete who was also all-league in basketball last season for the MHS Mustangs, Moore carded a one over par 73 to run away from the rest of the junior golfers in the field between the ages of 10 and 17. Moore was a veritable birdie machine as he collected three birdies on each nine to secure the Summer Junior crown by 25 strokes.
Moore has good power but also has an excellent short game. He finished second in the Coastal Mountain Conference’s 36 hole championship this past spring, finishing one stroke behind senior teammate Dom Williams. Bodhi has been on two winning CMC South Division teams over the past two years and has qualified with his teammates for the North Coast Section playoffs in each of the last three years. His family owned the old Hobergs Golf Course at one time on Cobb Mountain and Bodhi was the little eight year old boy running around what was then called Black Rock Golf Course. He could be seen hitting golf balls with his cousin, Cooper Johnson, also a Middletown High School all conference golfer. Moore is also entered in Thursday’s Lake County Junior Golf Championship at Adams Springs Golf Course on Cobb Mountain and is the prohibitive favorite to take home that title as well.
Patrick Seau of Santa Rosa won the 14-15 year old flight of the Buckingham Junior by posting a score of 98. Seau is on the golf team at Santa Rosa High School this past spring and was the defending champion at this event. Middletown High School golfer Jimmy Reynolds turned in a scorecard with a 112 while classmate Peyton Willis shot a 122.
The talented Andy Zimmerle of Hidden Valley Lake won the 12-13 year old flight for boys with a score of 90. Zimmerle is an ever improving golfer who is entering the eighth grade at Middletown Middle School. His classmate Andy Stine, also of HVL, came in with a 99.
Lyle Valador of Kelseyville won the 11 years of age and under division of the Buckingham Junior for the second year in a row. Lyle’s flight played six holes at Buckingham Golf and Country Club and he won his division with a 31. Nine year old Michael Dodson of Lakeport was two strokes behind with a 33 and ended up tied for second place with seven year old Carter Wolf of San Diego. Aiden Hernandez posted a score of 35.