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Local ties: Hilton Head's Jim Ferree played in the 1st US Junior Amateur

Staff reports - sports@islandpacket.com

Updated July 24, 2015 6:16 PM

Jim Ferree, smiles for a portrait while at The Boys and Girls Club of Hilton Head, on April 7, 2015. Ferree played in the first Heritage and remembers following Arnold Palmer for the final couple holes of Palmer's win. He is a longtime Hilton Head resident, past director of golf at Long Cove Club and is now deeply involved in the First Tee of the Lowcountry, which is breaking ground Tuesday (4/7/15) on its golf facility. To watch a video, go to:?http://bit.ly/1gf1c6W Theophil Syslo

While local golfer Andrew Orischak has experienced success in this week's U.S. Junior Amateur Championship at Colleton River Plantation, the Hilton Head Island teenager and the Bluffton golf club are not the area's only ties to the USGA event.

Hilton Head Island's Jim Ferree, a former PGA Tour and Champions Tour professional and an inaugural member of the Low Country Golf Hall of Fame teed it up in the inaugural U.S. Junior Am.

Ferree played in the 1948 event at the University of Michigan Golf Course in Ann Arbor, Mich.

"It was a beautiful course," Ferree told the USGA, "and it was the first time I had ever played on bentgrass."

Ferree fell 3 and 1 to Don Guariglia, of St. Louis, in the opening round.

You can read the USGA's story about Ferree's experience here .

This story was originally published July 24, 2015 at 5:50 PM with the headline "Local ties: Hilton Head's Jim Ferree played in the 1st US Junior Amateur."

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