Jamaica with ground to cover in Caribbean Amateur Junior Golf Champs
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Team Jamaica will have ground to cover if they hope to challenge the region’s top junior golfers in the 2016 Caribbean Amateur Junior Golf Championships being held in Barbados.
After just one round of intense competition at the Barbados Golf Club yesterday, Jamaicans Tiana Cruz is tied in fourth place, Sebert Walker lies sixth, and Hannah Foster tied in 11th position.
In the first round, Cruz shot 75 to tie in first position with Puerto Rico in the girls’ 17-and-under section, while teammate Kei Harris is in fifth position with 80.
In the girls’ 15-and-under category, Hannah Foster took the lead with a score of 78 ahead of The Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago.
Emily Mayne and Evelyn Lai are currently in ninth and 11th positions, respectively, in the girls’ 11-13 category.
In the boys’ 17-and-under category, Griffin McCloy finished the day tied in fourth place with a score of 80; Max McCloy is in 13th place in the category with 85, and Luke Lindo is 19th with 95 strokes.
In the boys’ 15-and-under group, Sebert Walker is two strokes behind the leader on 76; Justin Burrowes is seventh with 81, and Jack Stein is tied in ninth position on 83.
In the boys’ 11-13 competition, Tristan Brown (86) is in fourth position, while Rocco Lopez (91) is currently ninth.
Round two continues today.
