Quincy Leonard Jr., was victorious at the 61st annual Bud Burns Dixie Junior Championship, September 24-26, in Selma, Alabama. Hosted at the Selma Country Club, 17-year-old Quincy competed in the field with 51 boys, of which only 2 were boys of color.
As Quincy, a 3.2 GPA student who scored 26 on the ACT test accepted his enormous winner’s trophy, he was also making history as the first Black kid to ever win this tournament. Scoring R1:67, R2:73, 140 strokes, 600 points (-2).
Names previously engraved on the trophy include golf greats Hubert Green, Bubba Watson, Stewart Cink, and several notable others.
“Quincy actually won this tournament while the Steph Curry Underrated Tour film crew was filming him. He competed in this tour this past summer and made it to the Curry Cup at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco,” said his father Quincy Leonard Sr. “He was one of the top 12 to make it there.” During the tour, the Leonard family was selected as one of three families to be featured in the documentary, so for Quincy Jr. to actually win this tournament with the lights and cameras rolling was major.
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“My daughter Lauryn finished 3rd in the entire girl’s division as well,” said doting father Quincy Leonard Sr., a Top 50 Kids Teacher Honorable Mention by U.S. KIDS GOLF (2020) and owner of Leo Golf Academy. The skills of his brother-sister duo were pivotal earlier this year, back in May, when they brought in wins for their Pike Road High School. Quincy Jr. is a senior and will graduate in 2023.
