Recent Boerne High graduate Price Hill won this year’s 97th Texas Junior Amateur boys 15-18 championship last week after shooting a three-day score of 214 to take the title by one stroke.
Hill finished with a 69 on the final day for his 214 (67,78,69) to edge out San Angelo’s Colin Leonard, who scored a 73 on the final day and tallied a 215 (71,71,73).
Hill had a hard time accepting the fact that he’d won.
“I can’t really put it into words. I don’t think I’ve really accepted what’s going on yet, but it’s amazing,” Hill told Adam Rohrbough, Championship Communications Coordinator with the Texas Golf Association. Rohrbough is also a Boerne High graduate and a former Boerne Star sports intern.
Hill continued.
“These are things you dream about, I wanted to do the best I could this week but never really came in expecting to win because so many things have to go right, but luckily I got it done.”
Hill came out strong and was leading on the first day of the event with a 67, but fell off the lead by five strokes on the second day after carding a 78.
Austin’s Trenton Mieri was up after Day 2 at 140 with consecutive rounds of 70, while Hill was sitting at 145, but the Greyhound grad said he wasn’t worried.
“I knew things went my way the first day and I didn’t feel like it wasn’t my day (Day 2),” Hill said. “I didn’t feel I hit it that much worse, I lipped out a lot of putts but I knew I was playing hard and I just wanted to give myself a chance coming into the back nine (on the last day) and I did that and luckily I finished it out.”
Hill went sub-70 on the final day with a 69 to wrap up the title at the White Bluff Resort in Whitney. Mieri ended up tied for fourth at 217 (70,70,77) after shooting a 77 on the final day.
Leonard was second with a 215 (71,71,73), Connor Smith of The Hills was third at 216 (72,75,69), while Alex Huang tied Mieri for fourth with a 217 (71,78,68).
Jace Hulett, a Geneva School of Boerne student, finished seventh with a 220 (70,78,72). Hulett won the TAPPS 4A state championship last spring, while Hill earned a bronze medal at the UIL 4A tourney last May.
Hill is heading to Texas Tech to continue his education and is signed to play with the Red Raiders golf team.
“This is obviously the best you can ask for,” Hill said. “First win on legends (tour) so that a good way to go out, I’m going to college with a lot of confidence.”
NOTES: Price Hill isn’t the first Boerne ISD graduate to win the Texas Junior Amateur title. Former Champion graduate Zach Heffernan, who is playing at Baylor, won consecutive titles in 2019-20. … There have only been three consecutive winners at the tournament after Buck Luce won back-to-back titles in 1937-38 and also won the title in 1935 for three championships in four seasons, while Hunter Haas claimed consecutive titles in 1994-95. … Ben Crenshaw won the Texas Junior Amateur title in 1967.
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