DALLAS, Texas – Texas Wesleyan signee Scott Sikes shot a final-round 61 en route to winning the Dallas Junior Golf Championship Tuesday at the Tenison Parks Highlands course.

Sikes, a recent graduate of Irving MacArthur, captured the boys open division championship with a 9-under 135 total, besting Plano West’s Jeff Howard by seven shots.

“I was really nervous early on,” Sikes said. “Then I ate some peanut butter crackers, and that calmed my stomach and my nerves.”

He finished the day with 35-foot birdie put on the 18th green to finish 11-under par. The course record is 65, but because Sikes was playing from the standard junior tees, the second -longest, his score does not count as a record.

“This is an extraordinary achievement for any individual,” Texas Wesleyan head golf coach Kevin Millikan said. “We are extremely excited about Scott joining our team next year.”

According to the American Junior Golf Association record book, 62 is the lowest 18-hole round (10-under par), recorded by Stewart Whitt of Athens, Ala., in 2002.

Sikes will begin play this fall for Texas Wesleyan.