Boys golf: Cassidy finishes third

TEMECULA - Estancia High junior Jason Cassidy finished third in a

field of 43 in the 15-18 age division of a California Junior Golf Tour

event Saturday and Sunday at Temeku Hills Golf Club.

Cassidy shot 77-73--150, three shots back of Oxford Academy’s Lenny

Park and one shot behind runner-up Casey Satori of Oceanside.

It was Cassidy’s second top-three finish in a CJGT event and qualifies

him for the CJGT Tour Championship later this month at Los Serranos Golf

Course in Chino Hills.

Cassidy was also third in the February CJGT event at the Costa Mesa

Golf & Country Club’s Los Lagos course. He was also second in an

80-player field at the junior tour 54-hole major held at Singing Hills

Resort in November. He has finished in the top 15 in six of 10 winter

state and regional junior tour events.

He has also been medalist in four of his first five high school dual

matches for the Eagles, with a nine-hole scoring average of 36.2.