In the 65th NYS Boys’ 14U Junior Championship, Jacob Olearczyk of Barneveld successfully defended his title and won by three strokes. After the first round, he was three strokes behind first-round leader Dan Young of Bellevue Country Club, who fired 4 under 67 Tuesday, July 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a different mindset when you\u2019re coming from behind instead of the same at the start,\u201d Olearczyk said of the difference between last year and this year. \u201cGoing into today, I obviously knew the course pretty well. I knew where I could make some moves to gain some shots being three shots back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Olearczyk posted another good number (73) in the second round, while Young posted an 80 to fall into third place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDan and I are pretty close,\u201d he said. \u201cWe play in a lot of tournaments together. I knew Dan was going to hold his own, and he did for the most part.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Michael Clifford-Levy of East Hampton Golf Club was the runner-up at 3-over 145.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Olearczyk joins a group of five other individuals who have captured two consecutive 14U championships, including Will Thomson (2013-14), Alec Bard (2011-12), Gavin Hall (2008-09), Nick Park (2001-02) and Tommy Nixon (1984-85).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been there before, knowing that I\u2019m going home with the trophy hasn\u2019t fully set in yet, but on the car ride home it definitely will.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Final Results – Boys 18U Junior<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 33 Will Chouinard, Hamilton, N.Y. 74 – 81 — 155<\/p>\n\n\n\n 33 Caleb Decker, Vernon, N.Y. 77 – 78 — 155<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the 65th NYS Boys’ 14U Junior Championship, Jacob Olearczyk of Barneveld successfully defended his title and won by three strokes. After the first round, he was three strokes behind first-round leader Dan Young of Bellevue Country Club, who fired 4 under 67 Tuesday, July 26. \u201cIt\u2019s a different mindset when you\u2019re coming from behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}