The good days of golf kept on coming this week for a trio of New Hope golfers, who showed out on the home greens of Elm Lake Golf Course in a Coca-Cola Junior Tour tournament.

King Edge and Lee Stockton, two rising freshman golfers for the Trojans, both shot a 4-over 76 on Monday as part of a three-way tie for first in the 14-15-year-old age bracket of the tournament. It came down to a scorecard playoff, which decided the final order of finish by who played the best on the 16th, 17th and 18th holes, and Edge was awarded first place and Stockton finished third.

Coming off a sixth-place finish last week in a qualifier for the FGC Callaway World Championship, Edge had two birdies and six bogeys and closed out his second tournament win in the last two years with one of those birdies and par on the final three holes.

“It was really fun,” Edge said. “It was my first tournament back from the qualifier but a much different golf course, a little more open off the tee box, and I knew it really well. So, I got off to a really good start and was playing well. Toward the end I kind of struggled knowing that I was in the lead and wanted to play well. I struggled toward the end but I played really well, putted really good and it led to a good score with not my best game.”

Stockton, who finished in second place in last week’s qualifier, also notched two birdies and six bogeys. In the 16-18-year-old flight, Cadence Forrester, a Trojan golfer going into the 11th grade, took home fourth with a 6-over 78.

“It was really competitive I’d say,” Forrester said. “Since I’m used to playing in lower tournaments, now that I’m moving up to this higher age group it was really a competitive (tournament). … I got to about the sixth hole in the tournament and ended up messing up one of my shots and it cost me a penalty. It was a real turning point in my tournament because I lost my lead by a good bit and that’s when the pressure really kicked in. I knew that I had to keep fighting, keep scoring par that way I could just maintain my lead.”

Even though he didn’t end up winning, Forrester said it was cool to see his teammates have success in their rounds.

“(I’m) very happy and proud for them,” he added. “I kind of hate that since I’m a little older that I’m in a different bracket than them, but I know that they fought just as hard as I did, and I’m very proud of them.”