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August 09, 1999
Chris Jenkins, Little Rock Jenkins, 29, an insurance broker, won the Arkansas Amateur Stroke Play with a two-over 215 at Paradise Valley Athletic Club in Fayetteville. A scratch golfer, Jenkins was the Arkansas Golf Association's amateur player of the year in 1998 and won the Arkansas Open in '97.
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August 09, 1999

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Chris Jenkins, Little Rock
Jenkins, 29, an insurance broker, won the Arkansas Amateur Stroke Play with a two-over 215 at Paradise Valley Athletic Club in Fayetteville. A scratch golfer, Jenkins was the Arkansas Golf Association's amateur player of the year in 1998 and won the Arkansas Open in '97.

Tom Johnson, Fair Oaks, Calif.
Tom, 17, won his second straight Northern California Golf Association junior championship, becoming the first boy to win consecutive NCGA titles since Eddie Fry won three in a row, from 1941 to '43. Last week Tom reached the round of 16 at the U.S. Junior Amateur in York, Pa.

Gregg Kohansky, New York City
Kohansky, 26, a senior associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers, made two aces in six days on the 160-yard 7th hole at the Muttontown Club in East Norwich, N.Y. A former captain of the Yale golf team, Kohansky used a seven-iron for the first ace, his first ever, and a six-iron for the second.

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