Spencer Harrison has been called up by Australia to compete in next week’s Junior World Golf Championships in the USA.
The 17-year-old Royal Perth member is part of an eight-strong team of Aussie boys and girls who will take on the world’s best juniors at Torrey Pines, California, from July 8-10.
It marks a second national selection for Harrison, who made his debut in the green and gold in a Ryder Cup-style clash against the USA last July.
He takes some strong form into the international trip having finished T3rd in this week’s Queensland Junior Boys Amateur Championship – just a stroke adrift of winner Chase Oberle.
Harrison said he’s relishing the opportunity to compete for Australia at what is said to be the biggest international junior golf event in the world.
“The opportunity to get selected for trips like this is a great chance to play some of the best courses against top juniors and compare your game,” he told GolfWA.
“I’m really happy to have been selected and I feel like it was a great reward for the hard work I’ve been putting in off the course.”
Harrison’s trip to the US will also see him compete in the FCG Callaway World Junior Championship in California a week later and at the Junior PGA Championships in Indiana at the end of the month.
Harrison’s WA and Australian teammate Josiah Edwards will also be globetrotting throughout July with appearances at the Singapore Amateur, the Canadian Amateur and the Monroe Invitational in Orlando.
Australia Team for World Junior Championships
Girls: Rachel Lee (NSW); Reagan Denton (SA); Amelia Harris (VIC); Grace Rho (QLD)
Boys: Spencer Harrison (WA); Hamish Farquharson (VIC); Chase Oberle (QLD); Ti Fox (NSW)
Keep up with the latest WA golf news news via the GolfWA news section and our Facebook and Insta accounts. You can also subscribe to our monthly e-newsletter here.
