Four year US scholarship for emerging Boat Harbour golfer Amy Squires

Outstanding Boat Harbour golfer Amy Squires signs her four year student-athlete scholarship deal with Texas Tech University.

PORT Stephens golfing whiz Amy Squires is US-bound after securing a four year college scholarship with Texas Tech University.

The talented Boat Harbour teenager will take a giant step towards realising her dream of playing on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) circuit when she embarks in September to broaden her golf education.

It is a golden opportunity for the eighteen-year-old prodigy to showcase her game at an international level.

Texas Tech University alumni include champion Kansas City Chiefs NFL Super Bowl winning quarterback Patrick Mahomes and top-selling American musician and recording artist John Denver.

Amy’s student-athlete scholarship will enable her to push her claims for a regular spot on the highly rated Texas Tech women’s team, which competes in the NCAA Division One Big Twelve Conference.

“This is a wonderful opportunity to test my game on the tough American college circuit while completing my studies,” a delighted Amy told News Of The Area.

“The university is renowned for its first class golfing program and depth of talent in both the boys and girls ranks” she said.

Amy is regarded as one of the country’s emerging young golfers with a top 90 ranking in the Australian Women’s Order of Merit.

The Tomaree High School graduate performed strongly for both the NSW Junior Girls and Women’s interstate teams at national championship tournaments last year.

She won five of her matches and squared another to remain undefeated and help NSW clinch the Junior Interstate Championship Trophy in Perth.

She was also the youngest member of the NSW Women’s squad at seventeen, along with The Lakes’ rising prospect Rachel Lee and boom South Coast rookie Sophie Eppelstun.

Amy showed her credentials by winning the North Coast Junior Masters tournament – an invitational Jack Newton Junior Golf Foundation event – before registering a top 20 finish at the Bonville Junior Trophy Classic.

She has enjoyed a lot of success these past five years under former coach Mark Ingray from Newcastle and current mentor Earl McGlinn, who is based at The Lakes Golf Club,

A plus two marker at the Horizons in Salamander Bay, Amy also plays pennants for Concord Golf Club where she has impressed keen judges with her strong iron play.

The gifted Squires competed in the prestigious Concord Cup tournament last week after solid performances at the Sydney Amateur, Master of the Amateurs, Australian Amateur and Avondale Amateur events.

Her upcoming schedule includes pennants played for both Horizons and Concord plus the Riversdale Cup in Melbourne on 4 March.

Amy’s recent efforts are the more meritorious when you consider she is hampered by a nagging back injury.

Inflamed facet joints have resulted in the youngster modifying her swing.

Studying nutrition and sports psychology also remains high on the “to do list” when she arrives in Texas to commence her four-year college stint.

By Chris KARAS

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