August 5, 2024 • Southern Texas PGA
SPICEWOOD, TEXAS (August 4, 2024) The inaugural Insperity Invitational Tour Championship hosted by the Srixon Billiard Factory Prestige Tour will be played over the next two days of August 5-6 at Barton Creek Country Club (Lakeside) in Spicewood, Texas. This new event was announced last year to reward the success of the many junior golfers on the Srixon Billiard Factory Prestige Tour throughout the year and bring the best of the best together!
The 57-player field consists of 32 Srixon Billiard Factory Prestige Tour winners and 11 college commits. The STPGA encourages college coaches to come out and experience a deep field on both the boys and girls side of the tournament. In order to play in this event, players received invitations based on their tournament wins on the Srixon Billiard Factory Prestige Tour, their standings on the Insperity Invitational Points List, or special invitations.
With the connection between the Srixon Billiard Factory Prestige Tour and Legends Junior Tour, the players will be competing for more than just the opportunity to call themselves Tour Champions. The boys and girls winner will each earn Fully Exempt Status on the Legends Junior Tour starting in September and running through next summer!
The 57-player field consists of 32 Srixon Billiard Factory Prestige Tour winners and 11 college commits. The STPGA encourages college coaches to come out and watch and experience a deep field on both the boys and girls side of the tournament.
This Arnold Palmer design sits on a secluded hillside above Lake Travis, rewarding golfers with striking, panoramic views of the Hill Country and lake. The course has a variety of water features, bunkers and elevation changes. Hole #11 is consistently ranked among the most beautiful holes in Texas. The club has been the venue for several prestigious tournaments, including the PGA Professional National Championship, the U.S. Senior Women’s Open, and multiple PGA of America Championships.
The STPGA would like to thank our title sponsor, the Insperity Invitational, as they continue to demonstrate their devotion to growing the game of golf in Southern Texas and being more than just the best event on PGA TOUR Champions! We would like to thank Head Professional Casey Neal and his entire team at Barton Creek Country Club for allowing us to give our players this once in a lifetime opportunity!
We also want to thank the title partners of the Prestige Tour, Srixon and Billiard Factory, as no event would be possible without them!
Click here to see the full outline of each player in the tournament and below we have highlighted six players to watch coming into the event.
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Click here to follow along starting tomorrow with live scoring of the event.
Players To Watch:
Boys Division
Cole Macmillan of Round Rock, TX is recently graduated from high school and committed to play collegiate golf at University of Mary-Hardin Baylor. He is a 2 time representative of Team STPGA at the Ben Hogan Junior Cup Matches. Cole has 4 top 10 finishes in his last 7 Prestige Tour starts, one of which being a victory last November at Fair Oaks Ranch Golf & Country Club.
Bennett Kuhns of Austin, TX is a rising junior in high school. Bennett had 3 Prestige Tour victories in 2023 and has 9 Top 10 finishes in his last 11 Prestige Tour starts. Bennett also just competed in the 2024 Boys National High School Golf Invitational with his team, Lake Travis High School, after they earned their spots being the 6A State Champions!
Ryan Lee of College Station, TX is a rising sophomore in high school. He is just coming off his first Prestige Tour victory at Bentwater Yacht and Country Club earlier in July after shooting an impressive 63(-9)! Ryan has played in 5 Prestige Tours this year, finishing in the Top 10 in 4 of those.
Girl’s Division
Brielle Burns of Houston, TX recently graduated high school this past June and is committed to play at University of Illinois this Fall. She has secured two victories in her last six Prestige Tour starts and finished top-10 in her other four starts. Additionally, she just won on the Legends Junior Tour at the Collegiate Preview.
Bowen Lan is a rising senior out of Austin, TX. She has competed in 5 Prestige Tour tournaments this year, being crowned the Champion in 3 and earning 2nd place in the others. She has 6 total Prestige Tour victories dating back to 2023.
Bomyeong Lee of Huntsville, TX is a rising senior in high school and has won five out of the eight STPGA tournaments she’s played in. Four out of the five of those wins came consecutively in the fall of last year.
