A few months have passed since the AJGA crowned a winner. On Thursday, David Ford won the AJGA Invitational at Sedgefield, the junior tour’s first event back since mid-February. Ford played 72 holes at Sedgefield Golf Club in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 8 under to win the event by two shots.
Ford closed the week with a round of even-par 70, which was his highest all week. He kept himself in contention with opening rounds of 68-65-69. In Friday’s final round, he was 3 over through 14 holes before playing his final four holes in 2 under. That effectively separated him.
“It was kind of a rough putting day,” he said. “I knew how well I was rolling it, just nothing went in.”
Scores: AJGA Invitational at Sedgefield
Ford finished ahead of Maxwell Moldovan, the AJGA’s Rolex Player of the Year in 2019 and a soon-to-be freshman at Ohio State, and Wells Williams, a high-school sophomore from West Point, Mississippi.
Ford is ranked No. 14 in the Golfweek Junior Rankings and will play golf at the University of North Carolina in 2021. Earlier in the year, he finished sixth at the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley and seventh at the Dustin Johnson World Junior Championship.
The Sedgefield event marked his first AJGA Invitational victory.
“I’ve put myself in pretty good position my last four or five tournaments,” Ford said. “Not amazing position but pretty good. I had the lead going into today and to finish it off, it means a lot. I’ve been working toward this for awhile and it feels really good.”
Preston Summerhays, who won the 2019 U.S. Junior, was tied for fourth at 4 under with Sean-Karl Dobson of Austin, Texas.
