An ace for Pentin

Golf is a passion for Amador athlete Joi Pentin, a sophomore on the Amador Valley High School girls golf team, scored her first ace at the 15th hole at Pasatiempo Golf Course, which is said to be a very difficult course. She even nearly got another the next day on the same hole. Pentin got her first clubs when she was four, and spent the next couple of years hitting balls with her dad, Jerry, at the Pleasanton Fairways Range. At the age of six she began competing in the Pleasanton Golf Academy’s Golf Camps.ÝBy age nine she was playing in her first world championship (U.S. Kids World Golf Championships in Williamsburg, Va.) and has since played in two additional U.S. Kids World Championships, three Junior World Championships (finishing 11th this year) and has played in the Walmart 1st Tee Open at Pebble Beach these past two years where this year she and her pro, Dan Pohl almost won the tourney on the final day at Pebble Beach.ÝShe also played all three years on the PMS Middle School team. Golf is her passion as anyone who knows her would agree.ÝShe just finished playing in the Tournament of Champions, an invitation-only tournament for this year’s champions in the Junior Golf Association of Northern California held at Spanish Bay in Monterey.