Good Sports: Clovis students playing in tournament at Pebble Beach

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Called the top gathering of onshore and sea, Pebble Beach is the mecca for golfers astir the world.

It's wherefore Karsten Hansen and Sophia Peters are grinning from receptor to ear.

"I can't hold to play spread 7 and birdie it," Hansen said. "I cognize I'm going to."

Hansen is simply a elder astatine Buchanan High.

"I've been playing play for astir 3 years present seriously, but I've been playing since I was a small kid," Hansen said.

Peters is simply a inferior astatine Clovis High.

"I truly similar it erstwhile I tin conscionable deed the thrust down the middle," she said.

The brace volition soon get the accidental to showcase those skills connected the Monterey Peninsula.

They are 2 of conscionable 80 golfers selected from astir the state - they'll vie adjacent period successful the Pure Insurance Championship alongside PGA Tour champions.

It's a imagination that's coming existent acknowledgment to the First Tee of Fresno.

In little than 2 decades, the Fresno section has sent 17 players to Pebble by helping golfers done a rigorous exertion that looked astatine their accomplishment connected the course, arsenic good arsenic their grades and achievements successful the classroom.

There volition beryllium signifier rounds astatine Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill, past tourney rounds astatine the aforesaid courses and if they marque the cut, they get to play Pebble again connected Sunday.

Part of the rounds volition besides beryllium shown connected the play channel, a spot Karsten should consciousness astatine home, fixed that the Cougar was named aft Karsten Solheim, the laminitis of Ping.

Next month, they'll beryllium surviving it up with a week to remember, thing your kid could effort for by spending astatine slightest 2 years with the First Tee and getting their handicap nether six for boys and nether 8 for girls.

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