One of the Border's young guns handpicked to play during Geoff Ogilvy's inaugural tournament is banking on the experience for higher honours.
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Commercial Albury Golf Club's Sam Bakes will play in the Gen Z pro-am series in Wodonga on January 13.
Bakes became his club's youngest club champion at just 14 last March.
He's contested two of Albury's own pro-am events with Wangaratta product Andrew Kelly and fellow Victorian pro Jack Wilson.
"I noticed they don't really make any bad mistakes and they're always giving themselves a chance of getting a birdie or a guaranteed par, whereas I'll put myself out of position," Bakes said.
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Fifteen last June, the right-hander will join other promising teenagers Daniel Gill (Wodonga) and Baxter Droop (Yarrawonga-Mulwala) in the pro-am.
US Open champion Ogilvy and Wodonga pro golfer Zach Murray will speak at a dinner the night before.
