Eftink piling up summer victories, qualifies for Junior PGA Championship

QUINCY — The summer of Beau keeps rolling right along.

Beau Eftink, who will be a senior at Quincy Notre Dame, opened the Junior PGA Championship qualifier at Gateway National Golf Links earlier this week by making birdies on the first three holes of the 36-hole event.

The birdies kept falling. Eftink made 10 birdies during the two days of stroke play and posted a 4-under 138 to top the field by two strokes and qualify for the national event. He shot back-to-back rounds of 2-under 69 and was just one of three golfers in the 50-player field to break par.

Eftink will tee it up in the 49th Junior PGA Championship on July 29-Aug. 1 at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex on the Purdue University campus in West Lafayette, Ind.

Last week, Eftink qualified for the Junior World Championships, sponsored by Uswing Mojing, taking place July 8-10 at the South Course at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, Calif. The 2008 and 2021 U.S. Opens were played at Torrey Pines.

Eftink is a two-time Class 1A state runner-up, and this fall he will have the chance to become the first three-time state medalist in the history of the QND boys golf program. The Raiders have had six other golfers win two state medalists with Alex McCulla the last to do so when he finished as the state runner-up in 2018 and 2019.