Alex Heard

• I'm a team player. I love the individual nature of golf, but I really love being part of a team. I played middle school team golf, varsity high school team golf, and Ryder-Cup style team golf on the BallenIsles Cup. I was varsity MVP in 8th, 9th, and 11th grades (no season in 2020 due to Covid). As a junior in 2021, I led our team to the state championships, shooting 3-under par 69 in the Regionals to be medalist of 72 players. I finished 10th place in the state championships, and led our team to a 4th place team finish. I love the pressure and satisfaction of helping my team. 

• I love to compete. In classes, camps, skills challenges, and almost anything, I really enjoy competition, and I do my best when things get tough. I love match play, and was a quarterfinalist in the 2021 FSGA Boys State Match Play Championships.

• I know how to win. I knew I needed to birdie my final hole to win this year's high school regional - and I did, firing a 3-under par 69. Of 22 tournaments played in 2021, I won once and finished top-5 seven times. I won the opening event of the 2020 SFPGA Champions Tour overall 13-18 division by 11 strokes. I have won dozens of local tournaments, three US Kids regional championships, the US Kids Florida State championship, and the Doral-Publix International. I won six events on the SFPGA Prep Tour, and won Player of the Year. I won POY again the following year in the SFPGA Challenge Tour by winning the final 5 events of the season. I know how to close the deal and win.

• I know how to go low. I scored under par in tournaments five times this season, with a low competitive round of 68. I have had 5 or more birdies in 4 of my last 6 competitive tournament rounds in 2021. In US Kids local tours, I shot 33 or less more than 20 times. At the Doral-Publix, I shot a 63 to win. At a Hurricane Tour event, I shot 68 and won on my first time at the course. I shot a 67 in a US Kids event, including a  6-under 30 on the front 9. I fired 9 birdies in my final round in an FJT event. I shot a 23 for 9 holes on a par 30 course in a middle school match. 

I was a “straight-A” student through middle school and earned a 4.2 GPA in my freshman year of high school at American Heritage School Boca/Delray. Now a junior at Boca Raton High School, I continue to be an "A" student with a 4.5 weighted GPA. I earned the President’s Education Award for Outstanding Academic Excellence, and was inducted into the National Honor Society in 2021. I won the school, county, and Florida state National History Day competition and defended my exhibit in Washington, D.C.

I was the youngest winner of the Pepsi Little People's Spirit of Giving award for my charitable efforts.  I won the SFPGA Birdie Club award in 2016, 2017, and 2020, raising a total of more than $15,000 for the SFPGA Charitable Foundation. I also helped raise money through golf donations to build two schools in Jamaica, and traveled there in 2018 and 2019 to assist with the finishing and grand opening ceremonies. I run in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation events, and I volunteer at our annual Little (Big) Break skills challenge and our Family Golf Day charity fundraiser.