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With an atmosphere that resembled a “Mini-Junior World” according to organizer Chris Smeal, the San Diego Junior Amateur Championship featured talented Southern California junior golfers in 10 different divisions competing at Steele Canyon Golf Club and Sycuan Resort in San Diego County. The week-long event was one of the most important on the Future Champions Golf schedule — top finishers qualified for the prestigious 2010 Junior World Golf Championships, which will be held July 12-16. Rancho Santa Margarita’s Beau Hossler captured the Boys Championship (ages 15-18) grouping, shooting rounds of 69-71 at Steele Canyon to defeat high school teammate Andrew Levitt by a single stroke. The deep field of 76 players included San Diegan Byron Meth (75-69, tied for fourth) and San Juan Capistrano’s Rito Armenta (73-73, tied for eighth). (Click here for complete results.) For more on Hossler and Levitt, check out this article from the December 2009 issue of Southland Golf. In the Girls Championship (ages 15-18), one of the nation’s most accomplished juniors played up a division and still managed to run away with the title. Thirteen-year-old Casie Cathrea, a freshman at Livermore High School in Northern California, shot 72-76 to win by nine strokes over Kaitlin Park. Cathrea had a banner 2009 campaign, qualifying for the LPGA Tour’s CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge in September and making a hole-in-one during the first round, then winning the California Women’s Amateur Championship in November. (Click here for complete results.) Winners from other divisions: Boys 13-14: Escondido’s Tyler Moore (75-70) outlasted Solana Beach’s Jonah Texeira (76-72) and Chula Vista’s Nahum Mendoza (74-74) by three strokes at Sycuan Resort. (Click here for complete results.) Girls 13-14: Lydia Choi of Beverly Hills topped the field by seven strokes at Sycuan, shooting 76-72. San Diego’s Jennifer Peng (78-77) by seven strokes. (Click here for complete results.) Boys 11-12: Japan native Issei Tanabe, playing out of Huntington Beach, posted scores of 74-72 to outlast Roy Cootes (73-75) by two strokes. (Click here for complete results.) Girls 11-12: Angel Yin of Arcadia repeated as the champion of this division, recording impressive rounds of 70-71 (3-under par) to top Fountain Valley’s Lilia Vu (75-74), a past Junior World winner, by eight strokes. (Click here for complete results.) Boys 9-10: On Sycuan Resort’s par-3 Pine Glen course, Yorba Linda’s Ricky Castillo (61-59) won by three strokes over a quintet of juniors — Palo Alto’s Andy Zhou (66-57), San Diego’s Kyle Maspat (64-59), Canada’s Perry Xin (61-62), Palm Desert’s Charles Reiter (61-62), and Ridgecrest’s Devon Bling (61-62). (Click here for complete results.) Girls 9-10: Mexico City’s Andrea Gomez fired round of 66-62 en route to winning the division by six strokes over Lillian Torres of Fresno. (Click here for complete results.) Boys 8 and Under: Dylan Fritz of Las Vegas shot 60-66 to win by four strokes over Andrew Jung. (Click here for complete results.) Girls 8 and Under: Kara Sanford of San Diego won with a 131 total (66-65), besting fellow San Diegan Kailie Vonsaga (68-69) by six shots. (Click here for complete results.) View Future Champions Golf's complete recap of the event. For more on Future Champions golf, including upcoming events and complete tournament results, visit their website. |
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