2022 Boys’ Junior Player of the Year

The 2022 RDGA Boys’ Junior Player of the Year: Owen Corby

Owen Corby

The Rochester District Golf Association began its Junior Player of the Year Award in 2006 as a way to honor the year’s top junior players – Boys AND Girls ages 12 through 18 – based on points earned from local, regional and national junior tournaments throughout the season.

Now in its 16th season, the RDGA Junior Player of the Year Award has been presented to several outstanding Junior players who have since gone on to become top amateurs at the national level – such as Yarik Merkulov – as well as professional tour golfers, including Dominic Bozzelli and Gavin Hall.

In 2018, a separate category was created for an annual RDGA Girls’ Player of the Year Award, thus making the previous Junior Player of the Year the annual RDGA Boys’ Junior Player of the Year Award. Any junior girls who had previously won the Junior Player of the Year still appear on the past winners list.

The race for the 2022 RDGA Boys’ Junior Player of the Year Award ended in a 175-point runaway – with Owen Corby of Monroe Golf Club emerging with the title over Midvale’s Connor Kiel, who had won the 2022 RDGA Boys Junior Championship title earlier in the season.

Corby enjoyed an outstanding season in 2022, winning three major junior titles, including the Monroe County High School Tournament of Champions at Deerfield; the Section V Super Sectionals at Clifton Springs & Wayne Hills; and the WNY PGA Junior Qualifier at Glen Oaks. Additionally, he was the runner-up in the Monroe Golf Club Men’s Club Championship.

To see the final 2022 RDGA Boys’ Junior Player of the Year Points standings, CLICK HERE.