TOURNAMENTS TO WATCH
The U.S. Junior Amateur and U.S. Girls' Junior Log on to Golfweek.com all this week for daily scores and updates from the U.S. Junior and U.S. Girls' Junior, where some of the country's best young golfers compete for the ultimate prize in junior golf. Beth Ann Baldry is at BanBury GC in Eagle, Idaho, covering the girls, while Eric Soderstrom is at Longmeadow (Mass.) CC with the boys.

NEWS AND NOTES
* Rickie Fowler guessed right at the 88th Western Junior Championship. "I picked a number I thought I had to shoot Š it was 64," said Fowler, 16, of Murrieta, Calif. Down three shots to begin the final round, Fowler proved prophetic with a closing 64 to jump five players and top the field July 15 at Blythefield Country Club in Belmont, Mich. "Today, I just came out and knew what I had to do and did it," Fowler said. "A 64 anywhere is a good score. It just happened. I hit good shots and made birdies. I knew I had to make more birdies." Fowler's birdie on 18 sealed his victory. He slammed an 8-iron to 7 feet and rolled in his putt to finish the tournament at 12-under (70-69-69-64) 272. David Yujin Chung, 15, Fayetteville, N.C., had a chance to force a playoff with Fowler, but slid his 30-foot birdie try on No. 18 just past the hole. Chung finished in solo second, closing with a 4-under 67 for a 273 total. "I thought I played a great round," said Chung. "I got up and down a lot. I was grinding. I thought 3 or 4 under would do it. It just wasn't enough, I guess." Nicholas Smith, 18, Ocala, Fla., and third-round co-leader Peter Uihlein, 15, Bradenton, Fla., tied for third at 274.

* Alex Volpenhein of Edgewood, Ky., won the 2005 Westfield Boys' Junior PGA Championship July 16, surviving an emotional final-round duel with Joe Monte of Chantilly, Va. After trading the lead with Monte for most of the day at Westfield Group Country Club in Westfield Center, Ohio, Volpenhein stayed steady in the end and watched as Monte made two late bogeys on 15 and 16 to lose by a shot. "I just stayed focused and really didn't worry about what he was doing and it ended up in my favor...," said Volpenhein, who finished with a 3-under 68 for a 272 total. "I battled and stayed in it and I ended up winning." Monte closed with a 1-under 67 for a 273 total. "I have never played under that amount of pressure in my life. It was tough to hold the lead," Monte said. "I didn't let up on him (Volpenhein) at all. I just stopped making the shots. It just got tough to keep on grinding away and making birdies."

* Stephanie Kono of Honolulu, Hawaii, dropped in a birdie on 17 to seal her victory at the 2005 Westfield Girls' Junior PGA Championship. Kono closed with a 1-over 72 for a 281 total, two strokes better than Kristina Wong of Vestal, N.Y. "I knew what Kristina was shooting and I knew what I had to do," Kono said. "I think making par down the stretch with a three-stroke lead really is not that easy on this golf course. I really wasn't comfortable until I made that birdie on hole No. 17 which put me ahead by two." Wong, who finished with an even-par 71 for a 283 total, had Kono in her sights for most of the final round, but could never catch her. "I looked at the leaderboard all the time to see where I was. I tried to catch up but she (Kono) played really well," Wong said. "I felt a lot more pressure coming through the last three holes knowing I was still down, but I would rather be chasing then holding the lead. I tried to play more aggressively but my putts just wouldn't fall." Grace Woo of Burbank, Calif., Catherina Wang of Orlando, Fla., and Michelle Grilli of Lutherville, Md., finished tied for third place at 285.

* Morgan Pressel received an answer from LPGA commissioner Ty Votaw regarding her petition to go to Qualifying School. There was good news and bad. Votaw told Pressel July 13 that he will allow her to enter Q-School this fall as a 17-year-old but that she will have to wait until she turns 18 on May 23 to begin her status as a tour member should she earn exempt or conditional status. The decision effectively would reduce Pressel's tour schedule by one-third and would put more pressure on her to earn enough money to retain her card for 2007. Ten events were played on this year's schedule before May 23. "I'm disappointed," Pressel told Golfweek. "I felt that I deserved to play full-time next year. Apparently he didn't think so. I don't see how I could be a bad thing for the tour. I think I could be a very good thing." The LPGA waived the age rule for Aree Song in 2003 when she was 17. Carmen Bandea, 15, and In-Bee Park, 17, also have petitioned the LPGA for a waiver this year. Bandea's request was denied and Votaw has not yet ruled on Park's petition. (Park shot a first-round 78 Thursday at the LPGA Canadian Women's Open and was tied for 130th.) "We feel the 18-year-old age limitation is a good rule," Votaw said. "If we're ever going to make an exception we will do so only in extraordinary circumstances. In the case of Morgan, we felt that the timing of her attempting to qualify warranted a waiver. But, we made the further condition that if she were to qualify we could withhold membership until she turned 18 and has graduated from high school." Pressel, Golfweek's top-ranked junior and amateur, still has the option of turning professional at the beginning of 2006 and playing as a nonmember before May 23. Under that scenario she could play six tournaments with sponsor exemptions, but the money earned in those events would not count toward earnings once she became a tour member May 23. However, if Pressel made enough money on those six sponsor exemptions to rank among the top 90 at the end of the season, she would be given her tour card for 2007. "It doesn't make much sense to me," Pressel said. Votaw also told Pressel that he wished to see her graduate from high school before joining the tour, Pressel said. Pressel is an honors student at St. Andrew's School in Boca Raton, Fla., and is scheduled to graduate May 20. Votaw has said in the past that part of the reason he gave Song the go-ahead in 2003 was because she had graduated from high school. "We felt with weighing the circumstances in Morgan's case," Votaw said, "that this was the way for us to go." Said Pressel: "The bottom line is that when you have someone younger who can play you ought to let them out there. I know I can play out there." (Jay A. Coffin, Golfweek senior writer)

* Teams are now set for the 16th-annual Canon Cup, the American Junior Golf Association announced July 12. These 40 juniors now add their names to an impressive list of past participants including Tiger Woods, Stewart Cink, David Gossett, Charles Howell III, Beth Bauer, Paula Creamer, Cristie Kerr, Kelli Kuehne and Grace Park. This year's event will take place at the Capital City Club's Crabapple Course in Woodstock, Ga., Aug. 8-11. The Crabapple Course, site of the 2003 WGC-American Express Championship, is a Tom Fazio design that opened in 2002. The Canon Cup pits East vs. West (divided by the Mississippi River) in a team match play format over three days. The first two days of competition include foursome and four-ball matches, and the final day is reserved for singles matches. Teams (10 boys and 10 girls each) were selected based on a point system and include four captains' picks per squad (two boys, two girls). Of the 40 participants this year, 33 are Rolex Junior All-Americans. Nine boys and 15 girls are ranked in the top 20 of the Golfweek/Titleist Junior Rankings (as of July 10). The East Team will look to retain the Canon Cup after a thrilling victory in 2004 at Caves Valley Golf Club in suburban Baltimore. Coming down to the final singles match, the East won when Jon Mclean was able to win the final hole, thus halving his match with the West's Lucas Lee and giving the East possesion of the cup for the first time in four years. (AJGA)

EAST BOYS
Peter Uihlein, Bradenton, Fla.
Mu Hu, Celebration, Fla.
Daniel Woltman, Beaver Dam, Wis.
David May, Auburn, N.Y.
Lion Kim, Lake Mary, Fla.
Arnond Vongvanij, Bradenton, Fla.
David Yujin Chung, Fayetteville, N.C.An
Luke Hopkins, Greer, S.C.
Nicholas Smith, Ocala, Fla.
Michael Green, Augusta, Ga.

GIRLS
Kimberly Donovan, Hopkinton, Mass.
Dolores White, Lakeland, Fla.
Megan Grehan, Mamaroneck, N.Y.
Alina Lee, Evans, Ga.
Nannette Hill, Pelham Manor, N.Y.
Jennifer Hong, Windermere, Fla.
Marika Lendl, Bradenton, Fla.
Mallory Hetzel, Summerville, S.C.
Jacqui Concolino, Orlando, Fla.
Jessica Yadloczky, Casselberry, Fla.

WEST BOYS
Jamie Lovemark, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
Philip Francis, Scottsdale, Ariz.
Sihwan Kim, Fullerton, Calif.
Rory Hie, Lakewood, Calif.
James Lee, La Habra, Calif.
Bronson Burgoon, The Woodlands, Texas
Drew Kittleson, Scottsdale, Ariz.
Jordan Cox, Redwood City, Calif.
Kyle Stanley, Gig Harbor, Wash.

GIRLS
Angela Park, Torrance, Calif.
Tiffany Joh, San Diego, Calif.
Amanda Blumenherst, Scottsdale, Ariz.
Hsiao-Ching Lu, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
Mina Harigae, Monterey, Calif.
Jane Rah, Torrance, Calif.
Sydney Burlison, Salinas, Calif.
Jennie Arseneault, Grinnell, Iowa
Esther Choe, Scottsdale, Ariz
. Jennie Lee, Huntington Beach, Calif.

SHORT SHOTS: The Golf Channel will carry exclusive coverage of the final rounds of the 2005 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, airing July 22-23. Coverage will include the two semifinal matches, as well as the 36-hole final match from Longmeadow Country Club (Mass.)Host Steve Melnyk, champion of the 1969 U.S. Amateur, anchors The Golf Channel's broadcast team. He'll be joined by analyst Curt Byrum and on-course reporters Jerry Foltz and Bob Rosburg....Washington State junior Jordan Madison birdied holes 9-11 to defeat recent Washington graduate Travis Andrews, 4 and 3, in the final of the 104th Pacific Northwest Golf Association Amateur Championship July 16. In the 104th Pacific Northwest Women's Amateur, 18-year-old Taylor Leon of Dallas edged Washington senior Paige Mackenzie, 2 up, in the final.