Rajcic/Budz and Kim/Park Take Home Top Honors at The 2025 Professional-Junior Championship
July 28 | Victoria Club
RIVERSIDE, CA (July 28, 2025) — Rajcic/Budz and Kim/Park take home the top honors at the 2025 Professional-Junior Championship hosted at Victoria Club!
The annual event, which saw the participation of fifty-two teams, is unique in its format. It pairs a junior under the age of 18 with a PGA Professional Member, offering a rare opportunity for the two generations to share the course. The Four-Ball format added an extra layer of excitement, making it a memorable day on the course for all involved.
In the Boys Division, Christian Rajcic and Harrison Budz of Bear Creek Golf Club were red-hot all day, producing a bogey-free 12-under-par 60 to beat the field by three strokes.
In the Girls Division, it came down to a playoff between Steve Saunders, PGA, and Skylar Earle of Temecula Creek Golf Club, and Luis Kim, PGA, and Hayoon Park of Harding Golf Course, as each team entered the clubhouse with a 6-under-par 66. The playoff lasted five holes, as both teams recorded three straight pars, and both made unbelievable birdies on the fourth playoff hole. On the fifth playoff hole, Luis Kim, PGA, drained a 12-footer up the hill to secure the birdie and emerge victorious for his team.
Congratulations to Mike Drake, PGA, of Riverside Golf Lab, for capturing a skin on the par-4 2nd with an eagle, to John Gray, PGA, of Native Oaks Golf Club for grabbing the skin on the par-5 15th with an eagle, and to and to Greg Gonzalez of General Old Golf Course for taking the skin on par-5 18th with an eagle.
We appreciate our Section partner, Titleist, for supporting the event, providing each junior participant with a tee gift, and providing the overall winning teams in each division with Titleist backpacks. A special thank you to U.S. Foods for supplying all the snacks and drinks for our players on the course.
Special thanks to the host facility, Victoria Club, General Manager Jeff Cross, PGA, Head Golf Professional Frank Yellam, PGA, and to their members for the amazing hospitality.