Jordan Jurmu of Marquette hits a drive when he played in an Upper Peninsula Golf Association junior tournament at the Marquette Golf Club in June 2017. (Journal file photo)

MARQUETTE — The Junior Golf Tour conducted by the Upper Peninsula Golf Association will start its season in just over a week with the first two stops in Marquette County.

Tournaments will be held about once a week — though the time between events is as little as a single day and as many as 11 days — into early August at UPGA member courses around the central and western U.P.

Wawonowin Country Club in western Marquette County’s Ely Township — near Champion — will host the Junior Tour opener on Monday, June 9.

For each of the 11 stops this spring and summer, entrants or a parent or guardian are asked to register by calling a contact number at each course at least 48 hours prior to an event, each of which will start at 9 a.m. local time.

There will be five age divisions, with the 8-9-year-old, 10-11 and 12-13 playing nine holes off forward tees, and 14-15 and 16-18 playing 18 holes and hitting off middle tees. Ages are determined at the time of each event, and golfers can play in an older division if notification is given beforehand.

Cost is $20 per golfer per event, which includes greens fees, unlimited range balls and tees beforehand, lunch after playing, and trophies and medallions.

For the opening Wawonowin stop, the contact person is club general manager Jennifer Flynn at 906-485-1435.

The Marquette Golf Club’s Heritage Course will host the next event on Wednesday, June 18. For that one, call MGC golf professional Bob Bastian at 866-678-7171, ext. 1, to register.

The tour heads south — and occasionally west — for the next seven events until it returns for the last regular stop of the tour on Monday, Aug. 4, at the Northern Michigan University Golf Course in Chocolay Township east of Harvey. Call golf pro Ben Johnson at 906-227-3111 to register.

The tour’s final stop is on Monday, Aug. 11, for the annual end-of-the-season UPGA Junior Tour Championship, this year being held at Terrace Bluff Golf Club in Gladstone.

For that event only, players must be a member of a UPGA club and have played in at least two previous Junior Tour stops to be eligible. Top finishers — five boys and two girls — qualify from this event for the Golf Association of Michigan Junior Invitational to be held at the West Course of Forest Akers Golf Course at Michigan State University in East Lansing from Oct. 4-5.

Organizers also mentioned that the UPGA Junior Golf Tour now has an affiliation with the First Tee Program of Northern Michigan.

For more information about First Tee, visit online at www.firestteenorthernmichigan.org or email Kenn Hruska at www.khruska@TheFirstTeeNorthernMichigan.org.

Here is the entire Junior Tour schedule, including the contact person and phone number to register:

Monday, June 9 — Wawonowin Country Club, Champion; contact general manager Jennifer Flynn, 906-485-1435

Wednesday, June 18 — Marquette Golf Club, Heritage course, Marquette; contact golf pro Bob Bastian, 866-678-7171, ext. 1

Thursday, June 26 — Riverside Country Club, Menominee; contact golf pro Evan Kramer, 906-863-4837

Monday, June 30 — TimberStone Golf, Iron Mountain; contact golf shop manager Braedon Wixom, 906-776-0111

Monday, July 7 — Portage Lake Golf Club, Houghton; contact golf pro Tyler Bergwall, 906-487-2641

Monday, July 14 — Pine Grove Country Club, Iron Mountain; contact golf pro Rob Heslar, 906-774-3493

Wednesday, July 16 — Escanaba Country Club, Escanaba; contact golf pro Jeff Rae, 906-786-4430

Wednesday, July 23 — Oak Crest Golf Club, Norway; contact golf pro Kevin Londo, 906-563-5891

Thursday, July 24 — Gladstone Golf Club, Gladstone; contact general manager Cole Hansen, 906-428-9646

Monday, Aug. 4 — Northern Michigan University Golf Course, Harvey; contact golf pro Ben Johnson, 906-227-3111

Monday, Aug. 11 — U.P. Junior Tour Championship, Terrace Bluff Golf Club, Gladstone; contact general manager Tony Pouliot, 906-428-2343 (special eligibility applies)

Story contents based on the Upper Peninsula Junior Golf Tour web page at https://upga.org/wp-content/uploads/2025-UPGA-Junior-Tour-Schedule.pdf. Journal Sports Editor Steve Brownlee’s email address is sbrownlee@miningjournal.net.