The Jamaica Golf Association announced its 10-member team to represent the country at the upcoming Caribbean Amateur Golf Championship to be held in the Dominican Republic from June 30 to July 6 at the Links, Casa de Campo.

The team will compete for two trophies, namely the Hoerman Cup for men and the George Teale Trophy for women. Both groups are dominated by juniors with four of six on the men side and all four on the female side.

Additionally, two of the four juniors will be representing Jamaica for the first time at the senior level.

The Hoerman Cup team members are the experienced Sean Morris and Mark Newnham, alongside William Knibbs and Justin Burrowes, while Jack Stein and Sebert Walker Jr will be representing Jamaica at the senior level for the first time.

On the women’s side, juniors Hannah Foster, Emily Mayne, Eryn Blakely and Kei Harris, who have all already represented Jamaica at the senior level, will carry the country’s hopes of copping the George Teale Trophy.

The top six men in the National trials, held in early June, were selected for the Hoerman Cup team. Knibbs, a junior with a four-day total score of 295 or seven over par won the trials.

Morris, Stein, Walker Jr and Burrowes were next, after all posted four-day total scores of 306 or 18 over par and were tied for second,while Newnham ended the trials on 321 or 33 over par.

Walker Jr was the only player to post an under par score over the four days, when he posted 71 or one under par on the 72-par course at Half Moon in Montego Bay, on the third day of the National trials.

Stein is a recent graduate of the Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, USA where he played Varsity Golf for four years and will also play golf at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee in Fall. He has been playing competitively since he was eleven years old.

Meanwhile, Walker Jr, who is a Montego Bay native, has been playing from the age of five and is currently looking forward to his tertiary education with golf set to be in the mix.