Fountain of youth

Luke Potter becomes youngest player
​to win SCGA Amateur Championship

   Youth was served in the Southern California Golf Association’s 121st Amateur Championship, which wrapped up August 20 at Goose Creek Golf Club in Mira Loma.
   Luke Potter, a 16-year-old from Encinitas, became the youngest player ever to win the venerable championship, but it took three playoff holes to secure the victory.
   Potter, who was also the youngest player to compete in the U.S. Amateur at Bandon Dunes in Bend, Oregon, in mid-August, fired an 8-under-par 62 in the final round of the August 17-20 event to tie Pepperdine freshman Caden Fioroni and send the match into a three-hole aggregate playoff, which he won on the last hole.
   Five shots back of Fioroni, who led going into the final round, Potter shot up the leaderboard with a 7-under 28 on the front nine, which included five birdies and an eagle, an impressive showing for the youngster, who is committed to play at Arizona State.
   Both players finished 15-under after four rounds with scores of 265, with Potter shooting 67-68-68-62 and Fioroni 69-68-61-67.

    In other youthful performances, 17-year-old Greyson Leach of Rolling Hills Country Club shot three-under 277 (68-70-66-73) and 14-year-old Luke Powell of El Niguel Country Club posted a two-under-par score of 278 (67-73-70-68). Greyson finished in 20th place and Powell tied for 21st. And, 15-year old Dylan Block, the son of Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club Head Golf Professional Michael Block, a two-time Southern California PGA Section champion, shot 70-74 and just missed the cut at 4-over par.
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