Junior Amateur Golfer of the Year Award (2011)

REINERTSON & TAYLOR SHARE NEBRASKA JUNIOR GOLFER OF THE YEAR AWARD

Omaha, NE - The Nebraska Golf Association (NGA) is proud to announce the selection of Gibbon’s Rylee Reinertson and Omaha’s Drew Taylor as co-recipients of the 2011 Nebraska Junior Amateur Golfer of the Year Award.

Reinertson finished atop the NGA’s junior point standings because of his success in national competitions. The Gibbon High School sophomore was runner-up at the AJGA Nebraska Junior at Quarry Oaks and finished third at the AJGA Junior at Quad Cities, the AJGA Lockton Kansas City Junior and a PGA Junior Series event played at ArborLinks. Reinertson qualified for the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship by winning a sectional event at Firethron Golf Club in Lincoln. At the national championship he was eliminated in a play-off for one of the final match play spots.

Taylor won the 2011 Nebraska Junior Amateur Championship and was a quarterfinalist at the Nebraska Junior Match Play Championship. He also finished 11th at the 103rd Nebraska Amateur, was runner-up at the Fremont Invitational and a member of the NGA’s junior cup squad that played Kansas in August at the Happy Hollow Club. Most recently he was named to the Nebraska Junior Golf Tour’s annual All-Star Team.

Reinertson and Taylor will be honored at the Nebraska Golf Association's Fall Awards Banquet, which will take place Friday, October 28, at the Country Club of Lincoln. In addition, the NGA will recognize its Nebraska Amateur Player of the Year and Girl’s Amateur Player of the Year, NWAGA’s Women’s Amateur Golfer of the Year and each of the 2011 amateur golf champions.

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