JUNIOR PGA WINNER
LIKELY TO LOSE TITLE

By Mike Mazur

The PGA of America is investigating allegations that reigning Westfield Junior PGA champion Sung Ea Lee was overage during her victory last July.

Lee, of Tacoma, Wash., is a scholarship freshman on the University of Washington golf team. The school's media guide and the American Junior Golf Association list Lee's birth date as June 10, 1984, which would have made her 18 -- over the age limit of 17 -- when the tournament began July 17 at The Westfield Group Country Club in Westfield Center, Ohio.
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TOURNAMENT RECAPS

* FCWT Junior Challenge at Plantation

Christine Yum won the girls title Feb. 23 at The Junior Challenge at Plantation Golf Club in Crystal River, Fla. Yum closed with an even-par 72 for a 5-over 149 total, two shots ahead of Marie Bos and four better than Tiffany Chudy.

Yum, who earned her first FCWT victory in only her second start, said the key to her victory was her putting and a solid second round.

Bos shot a closing 77, while Chudy, who won the Tampa Bay Bull Shootout two weeks ago, had 78.
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Coffin: World No. 1 has fun
at Girl Power Golf clinic

The fact that a 10-year-old girl knows the importance of Annika Sorenstam's decision to play the PGA Tour's Bank of America Colonial speaks volumes. And the fact that Sorenstam and fellow LPGA Tour star Emilee Klein took time out of their busy schedules to host a clinic for 80 girls speaks more volumes.

Sorenstam and Klein hosted the second Girl Power Golf Club clinic Feb. 23 at the posh Lake Nona Club, where both are residents, for 80 girls ranging from ages 10 to 18.
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NEWS AND NOTES

* San Antonio's Mary Carriker was presented the Digger Smith Award Feb. 21 by the American Junior Golf Association for her prolonged dedication to the organization.

The award is named for AJGA chairman J.R. ''Digger'' Smith, who has supported the AJGA and junior golf for more than two decades. Smith was named Golfweek's Father of the Year in 1995.

Carriker is the tournament chairman of this year's Randall Parker San Antonio Shootout and has been involved with the AJGA since 1994.
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* The Plantations Junior Golf Tour will host two Junior World Qualifiers. The first will be held at the Country Club of Whispering Pines (N.C.) June 5-6. The second qualifier will be held at Patriots Point Links on Charleston Harbor in Mount Pleasant, S.C. June 18-19.

Top finishers from each event qualify to play at the Junior World Golf Championship in San Diego July 15-18.

* Short shot: Walking Stick Golf Course in Pueblo, Colo., will host the AJGA's PING/Marsico Funds Colorado Junior Roundup June 3-6.

PLAYER TO WATCH
Name: Michael Quagliano
Age: 16
Golfweek/Titleist Ranking: 113^th (as of Feb. 19)
Residence: White Plains, N.Y.
The Skinny: Quagliano has been a member of Ardsley High School's golf team since the seventh grade and has been named the team's most valuable player the last three years. He has also maintained a 4.0 GPA and scored 1,360 on his PSAT's.

Quagliano set a new amateur course record at Knollwood Country Club, shooting 63 to take the 2002 men's club championship and break the 63-year-old scoring mark.

Over the past four years, he has compiled 21 top-3 finishes including seven victories in tournaments played in California, Texas and Florida. Last year, he finished runner-up at the IJGT Tournament of Champions and was named the tour's Player of the Year.

THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE

Feb. 28-March 2 --IJGT at Quail Ranch Golf Club, Moreno Valley, Calif.

March 1-2 -- The Junior Tour Tournament of Champions, The Woodlands, Texas

WINNER'S MOVEMENT
Here is a list of last week's winners and their movement in the Golfweek/Titleist Performance Index:

GIRLS
FCWT Junior at Plantation - Christine Yum (73rd to 56th)

RECRUITING CENTRAL
The NCAA recently increased the core-course requirement from 13 to 14 courses in calculating a prospective student-athletes GPA for freshman academic eligibility. Will that affect the colleges and universities competing under NAIA membership?

The NAIA is a separate organization from the NCAA, and 4-year institutions choose which entity they wish to join for intercollegiate athletics competition. To be eligible to compete as a freshman at an NAIA school, a student-athlete's only academic requirements are to achieve a minimum 2.0 high school GPA and 860 on the SAT or 18 on the ACT. Unlike the NCAA, the NAIA does not allow combining partial scores from different testing dates to meet the minimum required score.

- For more college recruiting information, visit the Ping American College Golf Guide at www.collegegolf.com/.

THIS WEEK IN GOLFWEEK
Golfweek unveils its 2003 America's Best Modern and Classical courses list and Deputy Editor Jeff Babineau talks with Annika Sorenstam.

POLL QUESTION
Log on to golfweek.com and participate in the ''It's Your Honor'' poll question. This week: Given a free pass to play one of the most prominent courses in Golfweek's America's Best list, which would you play?

Have an interesting junior note to report, or know an interesting junior we can profile? E-mail Golfweek scoreboard editor Graham Elliott at gelliott@golfweek.com.

Have a question about the Golfweek/Titleist Performance Index? E-mail rankings@golfweek.com.