JUAN CERDA, HYO JOO KIM WIN TITLES AT JUNIOR ORANGE BOWL
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Juan Cerda receives the Junior Orange Bowl boys' championship trophy (Image by courtesy of Will Tirado).
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Chile's Juan Cerda beat Thomas Detry (Belgium) with an eagle 3 at the third hole of a sudden death play-off to win the Junior Orange Bowl boys' golf championship at the Biltmore course, Coral Gables in Florida today.
They had tied on six-under-par 278 with Cerda bogeying the 17th on his way to a closing one-under-par 70 while Detry birdied the 18th for a 69 to force a play-off conclusion for the second year in a row.
Last year Germany's Max Rottluff won the boys' title after a play-off. This year Rottluff, a former Scottish youths champion, led at the end of the first round with a 67, the lowest score by anyone over the 72 holes, but faded to finish joint 14th.
The long, par-5 18th was used for the play-off between Cerda and Detry. They halved it in par 5s, then birdie 4s before Cerda got an eagle 3 to Detry's birdie 4 on the third playing of the hole.
It was the first Junior Orange Bowl victory by a South American boy since 2002 and the first ever by a boy from Chile.
European boys had won the title for the past four years.
Poland's Adrian Meronk, joint leader with Cerda overnight, slumped to a closing round of 77 for 285 and a share of 11th place. He averaged four or five birdies in the first, second and third rounds but could not manage a single birdie in the final round. Instead he had six bogeys.
Nathan Kimsey (Woodhall Spa), winner of the Peter McEvoy Trophy earlier this year, hit form in his very last round - a one-under-par 70 after earlier scores of 79, 74 and 75. He finished on 298 compared with the par of 284 (4x71) to fill joint 45th place.
Kimsey was the only British or Irish player in the combined field of under-18 boys and girls from around the world.
Hyo Joo Kim (South Korea) won the girls' title with an aggregate of three-under-par 281, one shot ahead of France's Perrine Delacour who was the British girls' open amateur champion in 2010.
Hyo Joo Kim, long-time leader of the girls' event, went into the fourth and final round with a commanding lead but needed to have several strokes in hand to survive a lacklustre final round of 74 for three-under-281.
She was nearly caught by Delacour who finished with a 67, making up seven shots on the leader to finish on 282 - one shot shy of forcing a girls' play-off.
France provided two of the top four finishers. Celine Boutier, who was beaten in this year's British girls' championship final at Gullane, came fourth after third-place Brooke Henderson (Canada).
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
BOYS
Par 284 (4x71) Yardage 6742
278 Juan Cerda (Chile) 68 70 70 70, Thomas Detry (Belgium) 72 69 68 69 (Cerda won the sudden-death play-off at the third extra hole).
279 Markus Maukner (Austria) 68 68 73 70.
280 Emil Sogaard (Denmark) 73 68 69 70.
282 Jim Liu (United States) 72 70 72 68, Austin Smotherman (United States) 72 71 71 68, Kenny Subregis (France) 69 74 69 70.
283 Rowin Caron (Netherlands) 71 68 71 73, Max Mehles (Germany) 69 74 69 71, Haydn Porteous (South Africa) 71 71 71 69.
Selected totals
285 Adrian Meronk (Poland) 70 70 68 77 (T11).
286 Max Rottluff (Germany) 67 73 72 74 (T14).
298 Nathan Kimsey (England) 79 74 75 70 (T45).
GIRLS
Par 284 (4x71) Yardage 6089
281 Hyo Joo Kim (South Korea) 68 70 69 74.
282 Perrine Delacour (France) 72 73 70 67.
284 Brooke Henderson (Canada) 73 71 69 71.
285 Celine Boutier (France) 72 71 68 74.
287 Emily Pedersen (Denmark) 71 74 70 72.
291 Nicole Morales (United States) 77 75 68 71.
294 Antonia Scherer (Germany) 78 69 70 77
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Hyo Joo Kim receives the Junior Orange Bowl girls' championship trophy (Image by courtesy of Will Tirado).
REPORT BY JUNIOR ORANGE BOWL PRESS OFFICER DAVID MACKINTOSH
South Korea’s Hyo Joo Kim and Chile’s Juan Cerda are the new Junior Orange Bowl International golf champions, Cerda taking the Boys title in a three-hole sudden death play-off.
Sixteen-year old Kim went wire to wire for victory, although her final round of 3-over par left the title open to challengers into the closing moments, securing the championship by single stroke with two birdies in her final three holes. Equally critical was her 20-foot uphill par-save at the 17th, after a weak approach stroke.
“I did not putt well for most of the round but was able to find my concentration at the most important moments,” Kim explained through an interpreter.
As Kim slipped backward early in the round, pressure was being exerted by 14-year old Canadian phenom Brooke Henderson, who birdied the 14th and 15th to get in touch with the lead, but then uncharacteristically missed a 2-footer at the 16th. Finally it came down whether Kim could match Perrine Delacour’s birdie at the 72nd hole, which she did with the graceful simplicity she had shown throughout the entire championship.
Cerda became the Boys champion in spectacular style. At the third sudden-death hole he blistered his second shot to the 516yd par-five within three feet, then calmly stroked home the eagle putt for victory over Belgium’s Thomas Detry, the Belgian National Match Play champion.
Cerda, the Chilean Junior champion, bogeyed the 71st hole to let Detry back into contention and the Belgian then birdied the final hole to set up the play-off. Second round leader Austria’s Marcus Maukner surged into 3rd spot while third-round leader, Poland’s Adrian Meronk, slipped down the leaderboard with final round of 77.
The 48th edition of the Junior Orange Bowl International Golf Championship featured a 103-player field from 35 countries. For complete scores please visit www.jrorangebowl.org/golf
Sixteen-year old Kim went wire to wire for victory, although her final round of 3-over par left the title open to challengers into the closing moments, securing the championship by single stroke with two birdies in her final three holes. Equally critical was her 20-foot uphill par-save at the 17th, after a weak approach stroke.
“I did not putt well for most of the round but was able to find my concentration at the most important moments,” Kim explained through an interpreter.
As Kim slipped backward early in the round, pressure was being exerted by 14-year old Canadian phenom Brooke Henderson, who birdied the 14th and 15th to get in touch with the lead, but then uncharacteristically missed a 2-footer at the 16th. Finally it came down whether Kim could match Perrine Delacour’s birdie at the 72nd hole, which she did with the graceful simplicity she had shown throughout the entire championship.
Cerda became the Boys champion in spectacular style. At the third sudden-death hole he blistered his second shot to the 516yd par-five within three feet, then calmly stroked home the eagle putt for victory over Belgium’s Thomas Detry, the Belgian National Match Play champion.
Cerda, the Chilean Junior champion, bogeyed the 71st hole to let Detry back into contention and the Belgian then birdied the final hole to set up the play-off. Second round leader Austria’s Marcus Maukner surged into 3rd spot while third-round leader, Poland’s Adrian Meronk, slipped down the leaderboard with final round of 77.
The 48th edition of the Junior Orange Bowl International Golf Championship featured a 103-player field from 35 countries. For complete scores please visit www.jrorangebowl.org/golf
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