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(UPDATE 4/7) - Hayden Knapp finished T5 in the Girls 12-13 age group at the Drive, Chip & Putt National Finals Sunday at Augusta National. She collected 8 points in the Driving, 5 points in the Chipping and 4 points in the Putting competitions to finish with 17 total. The winner of the age group, Karis Reid, finished with 27 points.

Hayden Knapp chipping during the 2024 Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals at Augusta National on Sunday, April 7, 2024.

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AUGUSTA, G.A. -- Hayden Knapp of Glens Falls Country Club has qualified for the 10th Drive, Chip & Putt National Finals at Augusta National Golf Club, scheduled for Sunday, April 7, 2024, prior to the start of the 88th Masters Tournament.

The South Glens Falls native finished on top of the Girls 12-13 age group during the regional qualifier at TPC Boston on September 16, 2023.

Related: Drive Chip & Putt Home / 2023 Qualifying Sites in NYS

The 2024 Drive, Chip & Putt National Finals will include eighty junior boys and girls, ages 7-15 from 31 different U.S. states, one Canadian province and Australia.

Knapp, who has made a name for herself on the Empire State scene over the past couple of seasons, won her age group with 126 total points to finish five points ahead of another New Yorker, Alexandra Phung. Phung has appeared in the last three consecutive Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals and won the 2023 NYS Girls' 14U Junior Amateur title.

Knapp collected 35 points in the drive, 36 points in the chipping and 55 points in the putting portion of the competition.

The 13-year-old finished in third at the 2023 NYSPHSAA Girls Golf Championship, T13 at the NYS Women's Amateur, and 16th at the NYS Girls' Junior.

2024 qualifying began at the local level in May of 2023 at more than 340 sites throughout the U.S. (including 14 in New York). The top-three scorers per venue, in each of the four age categories separated into boys and girls divisions, advanced to one of the 61 subregional qualifiers in July and August. Two juniors in each age and gender division then competed at the regional level in September and October, held at some of the finest courses in the country. Finally, the top finisher from each of the 10 regionals earned a place in the National Finals.

Drive, Chip & Putt is a free, nationwide youth-golf-development program open to boys and girls, ages 7-15, in four age categories. The three-pronged competition tests the skills essential to playing golf - accuracy in driving, chipping and putting. 

The program, which was founded in 2013, began in partnership between the Masters Tournament, the PGA of America and the USGA.