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Yen Leads Texas Girls' Invitational

MONTGOMERY – Ashley Yen fires a 3-under 69 in the second round of the Texas Girls’ Invitational and leads by two strokes at Bentwater Yacht & Country Club heading into Monday’s final round.
 
Yen is a native of Houston and posted rounds of 72-69 on Sunday to take the lead in this girls-only event. She made 10 birdies in 36 holes including making birdie on holes No. 3, 13, 14 and 17 during both rounds. Her round of 69 in the afternoon consisted of five birdies and only two bogeys.
 
The Texas Girls’ Invitational is a 54-hole stroke-play event for girls and is the first Major Tournament on the Legends Junior Tour Schedule. Players earned their way into the field by playing in Texas Junior Golf Alliance Events. Yen is seeking her first victory at the Texas Girls’ Invitational and her first win with the Legends Junior Tour. The first two rounds were a shotgun start on Monday with players playing 36 consecutive holes.
 
Trailing Yen by two strokes is Summer Lee of Plano and Emma McMyler of San Antonio. Lee posted rounds of 72-71 to get to 1-under 143 overall, while McMyler posted rounds of 70-73. Lee made seven birdies on the day through the first two rounds, while McMyler made eight.
 
Tied for fourth is two-time Texas Girls’ Invitational Champion Makenzie Niblett and McKinney’s Avery Zweig. Austin’s Niblett won this event back-to-back years in 2017-2018. In 2017 she won it at Crown Colony Country Club and in 2018 she won it in a playoff at Sugar Creek Country Club. She is looking to become the first three-time winner of this event and is four strokes back heading into the final round.
 
Zweig finished tied for third at this event in 2018 and paired with Niblett in the final round. Rounding out that penultimate group is Fort Worth’s Savannah Barber, who is sixth at 2-over 146.
 
Meagan Pistone, Cassidy Lambert and Meagan Winans are tied for seventh at 3-over while six other players are tied for 10^th at 4-over.
 
Bentwater Yacht & Country Club is hosting the Texas Girls’ Invitational for the fifth time in the tournament’s 11-year history. The event returns to the Weiskopf Course for the first time since 2016. The course was designed by Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish and features rolling fairways and greens that seem to emerge form the thick forests of hardwood pines. The 12^th hole on the course features a split fairway with a green that is backed up by Lake Conroe. Two of the final three holes are along the side of the lake.
 
The weather at Bentwater Yacht & Country Club couldn’t have been better with temperatures starting in the mid-50s and working up to the low-70s throughout the day. The sunshine was out after 1:00 pm and the winds were light and variable all day.
 
Pairings for the final round of the Texas Girls Invitational were redrawn according to scores from the first two rounds. Players will be teed off the No. 1 and No. 10 tees throughout the morning. To see all the pairings for the final round, click here.
 
To see all the scores from the first two rounds, click here. For more information on the Texas Girls’ Invitational, click here.