**Season 2023/2024 Upcoming Tournaments. Check back regularly for updates and additional dates/venues**

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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**The following Claret Jug Championship Tournament is now on waitlist. All tee times are sold. Please click HERE to contact us by email and to be added to waitlist**

 

The 2023 Championship – The Claret Jug 

When: Saturday/Sunday 9/10 December 2023. Tee Times from 11.56 am on both days.

Where: Glenview Champions, The Villages, FL

Details: A 36 Hole Stroke Play Major Championship (Flights classed by age) ranked by iWanamaker and JGS (Junior Golf Scoreboard)

Member’s entry: $99 includes full range access

Non-member’s entry: $125 includes full range access

**Golf cart rentals are available for players at a rate of $25 plus tax per day**

IIMPORTANT NOTE: please be advised that the MINIMUM yardage for our youngest players for this tournament will be 4200 yards. 

**PLEASE NOTE ENTRY FOR THIS EVENT WILL CLOSE ON THURSDAY December 7th, 2023, at 9pm. AFTER THIS TIME ENTRY CANNOT BE GUARANTEED. IF WE CAN INCLUDE YOU A LATE FEE MAY BE APPLIED**

 

All players will compete for medal awards, commemorative prizes, best of season awards and for the lowest scoring player (Boys and Girls) in our 13/15 and 16+ player flights (who hold current annual membership of Claret Tour) will earn a valuable FJT STEP Exemption Award. All players entering will receive a sleeve of golf balls and our on course additional award competition(s) will double up in value with $50 gift card awards from Nearest the Pin Sponsor Edwin Watts Golf.

Our overall lowest scoring junior player after 36 holes of tournament golf, regardless of age, will be presented with our exclusive The Claret Jug Trophy. 2022 winner Rhett Kirkland, The Villages is shown below.

 

*IMPORTANT* This Tournament will provide FJT STEP Exemption Awards to Flight Winners who hold Annual Membership of our Tour and where a minimum of 5 or more players are competing within the same age group and from the same tee box yardage. This also applies to ranking points from Junior Golf Scoreboard. For more info please email if required to info@claretjuniortour.com

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JGS: 36 holes with 5 or more golfers per division

GJGR: Only divisions with a minimum of five players completing at least 18 holes from the same tees can be ranked.

 

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When: Saturday December 16th, 2023. Tee Times from 11.30 am.

Where: Candler Hills GC, Ocala, FL

Details: 18 Hole Stroke Play Competition (Flights classed by age)

Member’s entry: $79 inc. range access 

Non-member’s entry: $99 inc. range access 

Alumni/Senior entry: **Aged 19+ Seniors are invited to play this event in a separate senior player only flight. Entry : $79 inc. range/warm up balls**

Golf Cart Rentals are available for players who wish to use them at the venue at a cost of $20 plus tax ($21.40 total)

REGISTRATION CLOSES ON THURSDAY December 14th AT 9PM. IF IT IS POSSIBLE TO INCLUDE YOU AFTER THIS TIME A LATE ADMIN FEE MAY BE APPLIED.

 

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Home of the Ocala Open golf tournament, the Candler Hills Golf Course is a beautiful Par-72 semi-private championship golf course that has five sets of tees ranging in length from 4,877 to 7,233 yards creating a rewarding experience for golfers of various handicaps. Enjoy the picturesque scenery and unique layout, but most importantly, enjoy your round of golf! With a Palm Springs-style landscape the course’s natural splendor is enhanced by the variety of trees including sabal palms, live oaks and slash pines and various ornamental grasses…this is not your typical Florida golf course!

 

A Challenge to Golfers of All Levels!

Designed by renowned golf course architect Gordon Lewis of Naples, Florida, Candler Hills Golf Course in Ocala is a masterpiece in design. With a Palm Springs-style landscape…this is not your typical Florida golf course. Five sets of tees ranging in length from 4,877 to 7,233 yards create a rewarding experience for golfers of various handicaps. Enjoy the picturesque scenery and unique layout, but most importantly, enjoy your round of golf!

At Candler Hills Golf Course you’ll also have access to our driving range, short-game area, and two putting greens so you can warm up before you tee off. PGA and LPGA professionals on staff provide members with regularly scheduled special golf and social events.

**Please Join us for our Annual Fundraiser Family Scramble Tournament at Harbor Hills CC.** 

 

When: Saturday December 30th, 2023 (8am Shotgun Start All Players)

Where: Harbor Hills CC, Lady Lake, FL

Details: 18 Hole Team Scramble Fundraiser. Team consists of 4 players. At least 1 player MUST be a Junior Golfer.

Adult or Junior Individual player entry: $60 inc. cart fee/range access 

Team entry: $240 inc. cart fee/range access 

 

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When Fiona and I began The Claret Junior Tour, still known by many of you as The Claret Jug Tour, we did so with a list of priorities that were of great importance to us. There were many of them but the following were those we agreed we would not compromise on.

  • We will operate in a professional manner at all times and be known as a family friendly tour that cares.
  • We will always strive to play great venues across Central Florida, those that would be fun and challenging for juniors to play.
  • We will welcome ALL juniors of ALL abilities to play junior tournament golf with us.
  • We will recognize and, where possible, assist and reward those juniors who lead by example in character, integrity, behavior and etiquette.
  • We will make every effort to make ranked junior tournament golf “family-affordable” and accessible to ALL junior golfers who WANT to develop and compete.

As we head into our 5th year of hosting tournaments, and our own 6th year living in Florida since leaving Scotland, those priorities remain as important to us today as they did when we hosted our first tournament!

2023 has been another good and interesting year so far, it’s still a long way from being finished for us with a Claret Jug Championship Tournament still to come, another visit to Candler Hills CC in Ocala and of course THIS FundRaiser that I’m telling you all about right now!  So far though in 2023, we have played 38 days of junior tournament golf, both 18 and 36-hole tournaments, we’ve visited 16 great Central Florida venues to play and along the way welcomed over 1300 player entries in total to those tournaments!

We’ve awarded 112 low scorer medal awards to 54 juniors ranging in age from 8 to 17 and we have watched numerous young talented players consistently improve and develop in the sport we all love to watch and play. Even more important than that, to us, we have watched so many of them develop in confidence and character too. Golf really does instill some great qualities in our youth, qualities they will undoubtedly benefit from as they make their way in life. To name just a few, these include Humility, Honesty, Respect and Integrity. We hope you agree with us that these are all great traits for our youngsters to be practicing and learning as they grow.

If you already know who we are you may know that one other thing that makes us unique from EVERY other junior tour out there is the awarding of Annual Scholarship Awards to our hardest working, most committed and most deserving junior players. In 2023 we awarded 8 of our regular playing juniors, boys and girls, aged from 10 to 16 with these awards. Each award made gives the recipient FREE tournament golf for a year. Every time we play and at every venue we visit these juniors will play FREE. All of their golf tournament costs are either covered by the tour or by a donating sponsor. Check out below our current 8 golfers who received scholarship awards this year, our Claret Tour “Class of ’23” have been a credit to our tour, themselves and their families. They have represented us magnificently with their exceptional etiquette, leadership and not forgetting, some great tournament golf too!

 

 

So why do we need a FUNdraiser each year? We DO want to continue operating the way we do now and to do so means we will always NEED additional support and help. We are very fortunate this year to have the support and sponsorship of our great friends, led by Tony Viero, at Phillips Toyota and Todd and Melissa Coon, owners of TCL-Tri County Landscapes and DeSantis AC who provide annual support towards our tour and how we operate it. To both we are eternally thankful, without their backing we would not be where we are today! In addition we have previously managed to secure the help of a few local business and personal sponsors for our scholarship players and we hope we can do so again and, along the way, add some additional support to help us and help more juniors to develop in 2024.

We hope you can make it along on the 30th December? If not, then maybe you would consider making a donation towards our scholarship awards or maybe if you are a business owner you might even consider funding, or part funding, one of our scholarship players in 2024? Please reach out if you have any questions on that and we would be happy to chat about the benefits you can expect for your business from us, in return for supporting our junior golfers. You can click on the CJ Fundraiser flyer link shown below for a copy of our leaflet for more details of the event itself. Please pass it on your friends and family too. On the day itself we are hoping for 25 teams to play. Each team can be made up as you wish with one condition only, that each team MUST contain at least one junior golfer in it!

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Thank you for your support of what we do and for reading about this event. We appreciate your time and hope to see as many of you at Harbor Hills CC on December 30th. If you wish to register a team please click on the red Button below.

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The Season 2024 Opening Tournament 

 

When: Saturday January 6th, 2024. Tee Times from 11.30 am

Where: Red Tail Golf Club, Red Tail Golf Club, 26026 Member Lane, Sorrento, FL 32776

Details:18 Hole Stroke Play Junior Tournament Event (Flights classed by age)

Member’s entry: $99 includes Cart Rental for ALL players.

Non-member’s entry: $119 includes Cart Rental for ALL players.

Range balls for practice and warm up included.

*Please note a golf cart rental for EACH player who registers is INCLUDED with entry fee* 

This event is ranked by iWanamaker Rankings

**PLEASE NOTE ENTRY FOR THIS EVENT WILL CLOSE ON THURSDAY January 4th, 2023, at 9pm. AFTER THIS TIME ENTRY CANNOT BE GUARANTEED. IF WE CAN INCLUDE YOU A LATE FEE MAY BE APPLIED**

 

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This event is ranked by iWanamaker Player Rankings

 

Venue info and more course detail by clicking HERE

Welcome to Red Tail Golf Club.

Nestled among the 100-yr old oaks of Lake County, most people find it hard to believe that Red Tail Golf Club is in Florida. Rolling hills peppered with majestic trees and the feeling of being immersed in nature make it no wonder that the club’s culture is considered ‘laid-back luxury’. The crowning achievement of Red Tail is the spectacular 18-hole golf course. Players of all abilities will love the course which was designed by famed golf course architect Dave Harman. Play spans 7,152 yards, creating a par 72 links-style course. There’s also a 10-acre practice facility for golfers to improve their game, along with two putting greens. The well-stocked pro shop also features all the latest apparel to fulfill all your golfing needs.

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*Another exciting challenge awaits as we bring you our first 36-Hole Twin Venue Challenge Tournament of 2024 *

 

 

When/Where: Day 1 – Saturday January 13th, 2024. Eagle Ridge GC, Summerfield, Tee Times from 11.30 am.

When/Where: Day 2 – Sunday January 14th, 2024. Harbor Hills Country Club, Lady Lake, Tee times from 11.30 am.

Details: A 36-Hole Junior Hole Stroke Play Twin Venue Challenge Tournament (Flights/Yardages grouped by age)

Member’s entry: $99

Non-member’s entry: $119 

Range balls for practice and warm up included. Rental carts for players are available to rent at the Eagle Ridge venue($25 plus tax). A rental cart IS INCLUDED AT NO EXTRA COST for all players at Harbor Hills Venue. Players over 15 and under the age of 18 require a licence to drive carts and players under 15 cart MUST be driven by an adult licence holder.

 

On Saturday January 13th, and with tee times starting from 11.30am, we head back to another of our favorite venues. Eagle Ridge GC is always popular with both local players and many who travel to play on our tour. Eagle Ridge remains as one of the most supportive junior golf locations we know and it enjoys a reputation for being one of the most challenging, yet fun courses to play in Central Florida. This is a 36-Hole twin venue tournament played over two consecutive days. Day one finds us at Eagle Ridge GC and Day two (Sunday 14th January at the majestic and equally challenging Harbor Hills CC in Lady Lake, only a short drive away.

Eagle Ridge GC venue information can be found by clicking HERE

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Day 2 of our 36-Hole Combination Challenge finds us at Harbor Hills CC, the recent host venue for the PGA Tour (LatinoAmerica) LOCALiQ competition, where 144 professionals battled it out for a place in the final season event in The Bahamas. This year Harbor Hills are delighted to also be hosting several FSGA Junior events (Florida Junior Tour – FJT)

This twin venue combination tournament will give players an opportunity to test yourself in challenging competition play over this great championship layout.

Head Professional Tom Leimberger and the team at Harbor Hills CC work extremely hard to support junior golf in our community and they always provide a fine welcome to our Tour. Harbor Hills is deceptively challenging and it always proves tough for most of the field to post their lowest numbers. Lots of elevation changes and usually a firm breeze contribute to that!

Harbor Hills has provided us with quite a few great moments, fine individual performances and some wonderfully competitive junior golf. You really don’t want to miss out on this one and we advise you register as early as you can!

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When; Saturday 10th February, 2024 Tee times from 12pm.

Where: Ocala GC in Ocala, 3130 E. Silver Springs Boulevard, Ocala, FL 34470

Details: 18-Hole Stroke Play Junior Tournament Event. Rankings by iWanamaker Rankings

Member’s entry: $99 inc. range/warm up balls and INCLUDES RENTAL CART FOR EACH PLAYER

Non-member’s entry: $119 inc. range/warm up balls and INCLUDES RENTAL CART FOR EACH PLAYER

Please note that rental carts MAY be available at the venue each day for spectators at a cost of $20 plus tax. Spectator carts will only be issued after all players receive their cart.

REGISTRATION CLOSES ON THURSDAY 8th FEBRUARY AT 9PM. IF IT IS POSSIBLE TO INCLUDE YOU AFTER THIS TIME A LATE FEE MAY BE APPLIED.

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We are always impressed by Ocala GC, s layout, its condition and its history…Join us for this one and play a 90-year-old gem that really has stood the test of time!

To those golfers who know this one well, and who have talked about it for years, they know it simply as “Muni!” …it is city owned but that’s where the term ends for me as it’s unlike any municipal course I’ve ever seen before!  The layout is great and it could easily pass for a private course. It’s become known as one of the best competition venues in Florida and it’s visited every year by numerous Tours including FJT who play here regularly!

History

The Ocala Golf Club is located in the City of Ocala in Marion County. The city of Ocala has a long history and strong ties with the development of golf in Florida, dating back to the early 20th century. Ocala had a 9-hole golf course in the early 1900s known as the Ocala Heights Golf Club.  The early popularity of golf in Ocala generated citizen support for the development of a second golf course on the east side of town. Construction began in 1930 for a course designed and built under the personal supervision of E. Ellsworth Giles, golf architect from Pittsburgh. Giles promoted himself not only as an architect but as a builder of golf courses and an authority in selecting land for golf links. The Ocala Highlands Golf Course and Hotel formally opened in 1931. The City of Ocala purchased the golf course in the mid-1940s and built a new clubhouse.

In 2009, the municipal golf course re-opened for play following an extensive renovation by golf course architect Michael Beebe. The renovation consisted of new greens, tees, bunkers, irrigation, cart paths and selective tree removal. According to Beebe, “our goal was to re-capture the classical look and strategic principles that had been lost over the years while utilizing improved technologies in turf grass, green construction, drainage and irrigation.” The club also re-introduced short grass around the greens to add interest to the short game.

The Nancy Lopez Legacy Junior Champions Challenge 2024 

*This Tournament will provide FJT STEP Exemption Awards to Flight Winners who hold Annual Membership of our Tour*

The Villages Nancy Lopez Legacy Country Club - Erin Glenn/Torri Pines ...

When: Saturday/Sunday February 24/25, 2024. Tee Times from 12.00 pm

Where: Nancy Lopez Legacy Country Club, The Villages,FL

Details:36 Hole Stroke Play Junior Event (Flights classed by age) ranked by JGS (Junior Golf Scoreboard) and iWanamaker Rankings

Member’s entry: $99 includes Range balls for practice and warm up included.

Non-member’s entry: $119 includes Range balls for practice and warm up included.

**Golf cart rentals are available if required by players at a rate of $25 plus tax per day**

**PLEASE NOTE ENTRY FOR THIS EVENT WILL CLOSE ON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22nd, 2024, at 9pm. AFTER THIS TIME ENTRY CANNOT BE GUARANTEED. IF WE CAN INCLUDE YOU A LATE FEE MAY BE APPLIED**

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*This Tournament will provide FJT STEP Exemption Awards to Flight Winners who hold Annual Membership of our Tour*

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