Once a year the PGA Champions TOUR partners with the First Tee juniors from Chapters across the country.
This year, five juniors were selected from the First Tee – Greater Sacramento to play in this event. They were Sahil Nathoo, Abigail Lin, Gianna Singh, Ish Sodhi, Hannah Stouder.
On Saturday they play once again with their chosen PGA Pro hoping to make the cut so they can play again on Sunday.
Every junior player said the same thing when asked if they were having a good week at Pebble Beach, “This is as close as I have been to playing on the PGA TOUR.” They are all living their golf dream.
Theresa Shaw, Senior at Bear River High School had the opportunity this past September to be one of the lucky chosen by the First Tee to play on TV at the PURE Insurance Championship golf tournament at Pebble Beach.
In a blind draw her Championship Golf Pro was Kevin Sutherland also from Sacramento.
On Thursday, September 22nd, 2022, they were together playing a practice round and Theresa got her first hole-in-one on Hole # 17 of Pebble Beach. Hole # 17 is 135 yards right into the wind and Theresa was using her 8 iron.
Kevin Sutherland, Theresa Shaw, and Kevin’s Caddie, Billy Lewis.
That day Theresa Shaw’s golf game was “on fire”. She shot a 70 for the round.
