SECHELT, B.C. (August 2, 2024) - It was not exactly love at first swing for Jenny Guo and the game of golf.
When she took up golf four years ago as an eight-year-old, the West Vancouver resident much preferred swinging a racket. “Her favourite sport was tennis, not golf,” her mom, Yu Na, said as she watched her daughter blow away the field at the B.C. Juvenile Girls Championship at Blue Ocean Golf Club in Sechelt.
Golf and the now 12-year-old have clearly come to love one another. Guo put in a most impressive display over the three-round competition, which she won by 11 shots with a score of eight-under par. Not bad for a kid about to start Grade 7.
“I really didn’t like it at the start, but slowly I started to like it more and more,” Guo said of golf. “I won my very first tournament I played in when I was nine, so I was pretty good from the start. But that was after a whole winter of preparation.”
Guo closed the B.C. Juvenile — for players aged 16 and under — with a one-under 71. She basically won the tournament with a bogey-free, six-under 66 in the second round that put her seven shots in front of the field.
Knowing she probably had the tournament won, Guo was focusing on trying to win a second trophy in the final round. “After the first day there was some pressure, but after the second round I was leading by seven, so today I was really trying to win the best-ball so my brother could get a trophy.”
That brother is her twin brother Jack, who made the cut in the Juvenile Boys Championship that was also held at Blue Ocean. When Jack and Jenny finished their final rounds, they had a one-shot lead in the two-player better-ball competition. They ended up finishing second by one shot.