Qualifier-winner Cameron concludes first AJGA Open

Emree Cameron of Nevada competes in the Westrock Coffee Junior Championship this past weekend in Arkansas.

Photo courtesy of Eric Cameron | Special to the Daily Mail

After shooting a 73 (+1) to win the qualifier of the Westrock Coffee Junior Championship at the Hot Springs Country Club in Arkansas, earning her first appearance in an American Junior Golf Association Open, Nevada’s Emree Cameron tied for 18th in the tournament this past weekend with a three-round score of 237 (+21).

The youngest in a field of 24 female golfers and grouped with a University of Virginia commit and the younger sister of the 2021 NCAA National Champion, Cameron (class of 2025) recorded a birdie on the par-5 no. 9 and finished her first round with an 11-over-par 83. She followed that up with back-to-back rounds of 77, highlighted by a 13-par round two and a birdie on the par-5 no. 6 in round three.

North Little Rock’s Mackenzie Lee scored a 7-under-par 209 to win the event (her second year in a row) by nine strokes.

Cameron, who was recently chosen as one of six girls to represent Missouri in the 53rd Junior Girls Four State Championship later this month in Manhattan, Kan., will next compete this weekend in Louisiana in the AJGA Shreveport Junior Championship — for which she automatically qualified.

“I am excited to hit the reset button and start over and hopefully play better than I did in Hot Springs,” Cameron stated.