TOURNAMENT RECAPS

Event: AJGA Nike Golf Junior at South Padre Island
Course: South Padre Island GC
When: May 1-2
Where: South Padre Island, Texas
Winner: Peter Uihlein, North Dartmouth, Mass. (72-77--149)/Hyun Park, Bradenton, Fla. (77-86--163)
Runner-up: Johnathan Schnitzer, Houston (78-76--154)/Jennie Arseneault, Grinnell, Iowa (80-89--169)
Skinny: Amid gusting winds of up to 40 mph, Peter Uihlein and So-Hyun Park captured the Nike Golf Junior at South Padre Island. Uihlein shot rounds of 72 and 77 for a 149 total to win the boys division by five shots over Johnathan Schnitzer, while Park carded rounds of 77-86 for a 163 total to claim the title in the girls division.
''Considering the conditions today, I felt like I played pretty solid,'' Uihlein said. ''There was no single part of my game that saved me. I played pretty well all around.''
Placing second in the girls division was Jennie Arseneault, 15.
''It was tough out there,'' Park said. ''The wind was taking the ball all over the place so I really had to focus on distance control.''
- For complete results, visit www.golfweek.com/juniorgolf/

Event: AJGA Ashworth Junior at Cannon Ridge
Course: Cannon Ridge GC
When: April 23-25
Where: Fredericksburg, Va.
Winner: Matthew Skidmore, Oakland, Md. (73-68--141)
Runner-up: John Buchanan IV, Fairfax, Va. (72-70--142)
Skinny: On a day when low rounds were hard to come by, Matthew Skidmore shot a course-record 68 to take medalist honors in the Ashworth Junior at Cannon Ridge. Skidmore's 68 gave him a 141 total and a one-stroke victory over John Buchanan.
''I am totally shocked right now,'' Skidmore said. ''I can't believe I won in a field with this many great players, and to set a course record on top of that is even more unbelievable.''
Buchanan, who was playing in his first AJGA event, shot 1-under-par 70 in Sunday's final round and finished at 142.
''It would have been nice to win, but this feels great,'' Buchanan said. ''I played really consistent golf all weekend.''
Finishing three strokes behind Skidmore in a tie for third were Jack Schultz of Whitefish Bay, Wis., and Timothy Courtney of Midlothian, Va.
- For complete results, visit www.golfweek.com/juniorgolf/

Event: IJGT at Seaview Marriott
Course: Seaview Marriott Course
When: April 23-25
Where: Absecon, N.J.
Winners: Jamie Wallace, Moorestown, N.J. (68-79--147)/Julia Robinson, Lewes, Del. (76-78--154)
Runners-up: Stuart Howieson, England (75-75--150)/Ali Bode, Pittsburgh, Pa. (81-75--156)
Skinny: Jaime Wallace followed his opening-round 68 with a final-round 79 to hold off Stuart Howieson and win the IJGT at Seaview Marriott. Wallace finished 36 holes at 5 over, while Howieson, who is from England and attends the International Junior Golf Academy, was three back at 8 over.
Anthony Rubeo of Pleasantville, N.Y., shot a final-round 77 to win his first IJGT title in the boys 13-15 division, while Kevin Lee of Monroe, N.J., won the boys 12-and-under division.
In the girls 19 and under division, Julia Robinson shot a final-round 78 to win by two over Ali Bode. Robinson, who opened with 76, finished at 12 over, while Bode, who closed with a 4-over 75, was runner-up at 14 over. Carly Nathanson of Dix Hills, N.Y., finished alone in third.
- For complete results, visit www.golfweek.com/juniorgolf/

Amber Lundskog learned at an early age to expect the unexpected. Although she's grown up in a time when the fast lane is fashionable and 13 is the new 30, Lundskog manages to keep things in perspective.

Last month, the San Diego native played in her first AJGA tournament at the ripe old age of 16. Lundskog finished third at the rain-shortened Woodlands event and earned full exempt status for the remainder of the year. With the AJGA's recent lowering of its minimum age requirement to 12, however, it's safe to say Lundskog got a slow start.
- For more, visit www. golfweek.com/articles/2004/juniorgolf/girls/38647.asp

NEWS AND NOTES

* With three top-5 AJGA finishes to her credit, including a victory at last year's Solutions Consulting Junior Classic, Nannette Hill of Pelham Manor, N.Y., knows how to perform under pressure. The Pelham High School junior will play in the LPGA's Sybase Classic May 20-23. Held at Wykagyl Country Club in New Rochelle, N.Y., the Sybase Classic's field includes Grace Park -- two-time Rolex Junior Player of the Year and winner of the LPGA's first major of the year, the Kraft Nabisco Championship.

* Ernie Els announced the launching of the Ernie Els Junior Tour, a joint venture between the Ernie Els Foundation and the South African Golf Foundation.

''My brother and I both played in tournaments staged by the SAGF and during that time we made lots of friends,'' Els said when speaking of his reasons for backing a junior tour in South Africa. ''Many of those people are still good friends of mine today and in some cases, they are still my opposition. Even someone like Phil Mickelson I first met when we were 13 or 14 years old.''

All tournaments will be played over 54 holes with the field of 96 being trimmed to 60 after 18 holes.

Els expects the tour will be expanded.

''I would like to see the tour grow and become as strong as possible,'' he said. ''Ideally there should be a number of events staged all over the country and I would also like to see a number of our juniors traveling overseas.''

The tour is aimed at girls, as well as boys.

* Kevin Chappell, Patton Kizzire, Will Osborne and Garrett Sapp have been selected to compete for the U.S. team at the 2004 Toyota Junior World Golf Cup. The competition will be held June 22-24 at Bear's Paw Golf Club near Shiga, Japan. Arkansas coach Mike Ketcham has been tabbed to coach the American squad.

Chappell, a senior from Buchanan High School in Fresno, Calif., will attend UCLA in the fall.

A senior at Northridge High School in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Kizzire is an AJGA first-team All-American and three-time West Alabama High School Player of the Year.

Osborne, a senior at Wichita Falls (Texas) High School, was a second-team Polo Golf Junior All-American and was ranked No. 15 in the Golfweek/Titleist Junior Rankings in 2003.

A native of Cerritos, Calif., Sapp was the two-time MVP of his Gahr High School team.

The Toyota World Junior Cup will be entering its 13th year. The United States has won five team titles at the event, its last coming in 2000. U.S. medalists include David Gossett, Joel Kribel, Sal Spallone, Justin Roof and Hunter Mahan.

To be eligible for the competition a junior must be an incoming college freshman that has signed a letter of intent to compete and not reached his 19th birthday by date of the World Junior Cup.

* Short shots: Top-ranked Paula Creamer has accepted a sponsor exemption into the LPGA's John Q. Hammons Hotel Classic to be played Sept. 10-12. . . . The team of Cap Caponi and David Lindquist won the first Florida State Golf Association Junior-Senior Championship April 25 at Riverwood Golf Club in Port Charlotte. Caponi and Lindquist, of Orlando, were three strokes back from the leaders after their first-round 68. The team came out in the final round to shoot a 9-under 63, the low round of the tournament, to finish with a 131 total. . . . The Freshman of the Year award is to be named after college and PGA Tour standout Phil Mickelson the Golf Coaches Association of America announced. The Phil Mickelson Award will be awarded to the top freshman player in NCAA Divisions I, II and III following each Division's championship. . . . To register for the 2nd Kicks for Kids Celebrity Golf Classic contact Jeff Pinkston by e-mail at jeffp@playlikethepros.com or call 888.330.7529. The event, which benefits the Kicks for Kids interactive programs, will be played June 12 at Tattersall Golf Club in West Chester, Pa. . . . The Young Guns Junior Golf Tour has released its 2004-05 schedule, for more information visit www.ygjgt.com.

THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE

AJGA
May 7-9 -- I.R.I. Arizona National Mixed Team Challenge, Arizona National, Tucson, Ariz.

IJGT
May 7-9 -- Hershey (Pa.) Golf Club

NEXT WEEK'S SCHEDULE

INDEPENDENT
May 14-16 -- Scott Robertson Memorial, Roanoke (Va.) Country Club

IJGT
May 14-16 -- The Architects Club, Lopatong, N.J.

MAPLE LEAF JUNIOR GOLF TOUR
May 15-16 -- CPGA of Saskatchewan Junior Championship, Deer Valley Golf Estates, Saskatchewan, Canada

RECRUITING CENTRAL

How difficult is the transition from playing junior golf to competing at the college level? College coaches say course length and difficulty add several strokes per round to junior golf scoring averages.

The course for the 2004 men's Pac-10 Conference Championship was 7,435 yards, and the women's Pac-10 tournament was played at 6,405 yards. The longest course in U.S. Open history was Bethpage at 7,214 yards, and the 2003 U.S. Women's Open at Pumpkin Ridge¹s Witch Hollow Course played 6,550 yards.

Girls competing in high school and junior golf should play frequent practice rounds from the tees closest to 6,000 yards because that is where they will tee it up in college golf. Boys also should be practicing from the back tees and getting some wear on the grips of their long irons.
- For more college recruiting information, visit the Ping American College Golf Guide at www.collegegolf.com/.

THIS WEEK IN GOLFWEEK
Check the May 8 issue of Golfweek for the first of a three-part special report on the rise and fall of golf in Japan.

POLL QUESTION
For the first time in three years back-to-back PGA Tour events were forced to finish on Monday. In the event of a weather delay which would you prefer?

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