TOURNAMENT RECAPS In American Junior Golf Association action: Jonathan Moore, a 16-year-old from Portland, Ore., shot a tournament record 8-under-par 208 to win the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Junior Sept. 3 at Magnolia Grove Golf Club in Mobile, Ala. Jackie Beers, a 17-year-old from Midlothian, Va., won on the first playoff hole in the girls division. . . . Andrew Parr of London, Ontario, made a late eagle to avoid an eight-man playoff and win the FutureLinks Junior Aug. 31 at Deer Creek Golf & Country Estates in Ajax, Ontario. Seema Sadekar of Stouffville, Ontario, won the girls title with a 233 total. . . . Elizabeth Janangelo, a 17-year-old from West Hartford, Conn., won her fifth tournament of the season Aug. 30 at the Tucker Anthony Junior at Crumpin-Fox Club in Bernardston, Mass. Brett Stegmaier, an 18-year-old from Madison, Conn., won by four over Marco Poccia of Gansevoort, N.Y., in the boys division.

NEWS AND NOTES
* Casey Wittenberg and Elizabeth Janangelo were named Golfweek Junior Players of the Year after finishing the season on top of the Golfweek/Titleist Performance Index. Wittenberg, a 16-year-old from Memphis, Tenn., won last yearÆs AJGA Polo Golf Junior Classic at Disney World and finished outside the top-10 once in eight events. Janangelowon five times in 10 events and never finished worse than ninth.

* Tedd Potter and Brittany Lincicome won their respective divisions in the Sam Parks Junior Invitational at Belleair CC in Tampa, Fla.

Ty Tryon is expected to make his pro debut at the Tampa Bay Classic Sept. 13-16. Tryon, who turned pro following the U.S. Amateur last month, also has requested a sponsorÆs exemption into the National Car Rental Classic in his home town of Orlando, Fla., Oct. 18-21. He also is scheduled to play in the Trophee Lancome event in France, Sept. 20-23.

PLAYER TO WATCH
Name: Ryan Blaum

Age: 17

Golfweek/Sagarin Ranking: 50th

Residence: Miami

The skinny: Blaum made it to match play at the U.S. Amateur at East Lake, defeating 2000 U.S. Amateur Public Links runner-up Wayne Raath in the opening round before losing to John Carlson, 1 up, in the round of 32.

August was a pretty busy month for Blaum, a senior at Miami Westminster High School, where baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez went to school. (Blaum also plays guard for the basketball team, and last season made eight 3-pointers in one game).

Blaum made it to match play at the U.S. Junior after shooting 66 in qualifying, finished fourth and sixth, respectively, at AJGA events in Rome, Ga., and Tampa, then made a nice splash at the Amateur. He and Daniel Summerhays were the only high school players to make it to match play at East Lake.

ôItÆs been really exciting,ö Blaum said. ôI may have lost my match, but I played solid on a very tough golf course, and IÆll leave with all the confidence in the world.ö

Blaum is an excellent student who carries a GPA of 3.8 and has visits to four colleges planned this autumn: In no particular order, he plans to tour the campuses of Wake Forest, Duke, SMU and Oklahoma State.

Blaum, who works on his swing with David Leadbetter, has been something of a late bloomer, but this summer, everything seemed to fall into place, and he raised the level of his game. He departed East Lake deservedly proud of his performance, anxious to see what lies ahead.

ôI think my stock just went up,ö he said, smiling.

NUMBER CRUNCHING
Here is a list of last weekÆs winners and their movement in the Golfweek/Titleist Performance Index:

BOYS

AJGA Robert Trent Jones -- Jonathan Moore (7th to 4th)

AJGA FutureLinks -- Andrew Parr (unranked)

AJGA Tucker Anthony -- Brett Stegmaier (unranked)

CJGA Glen Abbey -- Fraser Hunt (unranked)

GIRLS

AJGA Robert Trent Jones -- Jackie Beers (14th to 9th)

AJGA FutureLinks -- Seema Sadekar (unranked)

AJGA Tucker Anthony -- Elizabeth Janangelo (remained No. 1)

Golfweek/Titliest Performance Index (as of Sept. 5)

BOYS

1. Casey Wittenberg 69.28

2. Kevin Na 69.54

3. Jay Reynolds 70.29

4. Jonathan Moore 70.29

5. Matthew Rosenfeld 70.39

6. Anthony Kim 70.46

7. Henry Liaw 70.62

8. James Vargas 70.81

9. Colby Beckstrom 70.69

10. Ryan Cochran 70.98

GIRLS

1. Elizabeth Janangelo 71.18

2. Aree Song Wongluekiet 71.57

3. Whitney Welch 71.95

4. Brittany Lang 71.97

5. May Wood 72.44

6. Allison Martin 72.56

7. Stella Lee 72.785

8. Whitney Wade 72.94

9. Jackie Beers 73.17

10. Paula Creamer 73.21