Courtesy Photo Elle - Fox is shown in her official photo for the IMG World Championships in California.

Cove golfers closing out summer tours in style

By TJ MAXWELL
Cove Leader-Press
 
The Copperas Cove summer golf program is winding down and Copperas Cove graduates are competing in their final tournaments before turning their attentions to their college exploits.
 
Recent graduates Tyler Morrison and Bryce Anderson have been notching top five finishes much of the summer.
 
Morrison is coming off back-to-back wins on the West Texas Junior Champions Tour (WTJCT) circuit with wins in San Saba and Lampasas.
 
Anderson claimed a firstplace nod at Lampasas a couple weeks back and finished third in San Saba last week.
 
Morrison will be teeing it up on July 28-29 in her last golf championship in the WTJCT Championship at the Quicksand Golf Course in San Angelo. before she begins her golf career at McLennan Community College next month.
 
Cove Junior High phenom Elle Fox also made her reintrodution to Texas after her tour of the Western United States.
 
Fox competed in the 25-26th in the Legends Junior Tour State Championship in The Woodlands earlier this week where she shot a two-day total of 156 to place sixth,. GabriellaTomanka of Grapevine won the tournament with a two-day score of 145.
 
Fox will round out her summer tour with an American Junior Golf qualifier at Texas Tech on August 8 and the Junior All-Star tournament Aug. 9-11 also at the Rawls Course at Texas Tech.
 
Fox will then begin her quest back to the National Drive, Chip and Putt Championships at Augusta National. She competes in the Sub-Regional at Watters Creek in Plano on August 13 and then will move on to the Regional Finals in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Sept. 10 with a top two finish. She begins her fall season Sept. 17-18 at the Dallas Junior Open in Fort Worth.
 

 

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