NAWILIWILI — Daezsa Tomas peeled eight strokes off her opening round, but fell short of qualifying for the Callaway Junior World, Friday. Tomas, the only Kaua‘i entry in the 12-player 13-14 Girls division, opened with a 96 (49-47), Thursday, before
NAWILIWILI — Daezsa Tomas peeled eight strokes off her opening round, but fell short of qualifying for the Callaway Junior World, Friday.
Tomas, the only Kaua‘i entry in the 12-player 13-14 Girls division, opened with a 96 (49-47), Thursday, before finishing with an 88 (49-39), Friday afternoon.
During the tournament that opened Thursday afternoon, more than 150 Junior Golfers from around the state converged at the Kaua‘i Lagoons golf course that accomodated the tournament through the efforts of Scott Ashworth, Director of Golf at the Kaua‘i Lagoons.
“It was a pleasure having the Junior Golfers here,” Ashworth said of the tournament. “I’m glad that we could have them come here to Kaua‘i to have this event. I’m surprised at the amount of good golfers there are in the field.”
Allisen Corpuz, earning an exemption to the Junior World in the 11-12 division, topped the girls in the 13-14 with a 36-hole total of 148 (74-74). The five qualifiers in that division saw Nani Yanagi of Hilo finish at 149 (76-73), Ciera Min (79-76-155) of Hilo, Eimi Koga (75-81-156) of Honolulu, Kacie Komoto (81-78-159) of Honolulu and Kaci Masuda (80-81-161), also of Honolulu.
Alina Ching of Honolulu, finishing the two-day qualifier with a seven-under par 137 (67-70), already had an exemption to the Junior World and set the pace for the 13-player 15-17 Girls division.
Three Honolulu golfers, a Wailuku, Maui golfer, one from Mililani, O‘ahu, and a Sacramento, Calif. golfer filled in the six qualifying spots.
Those included Marissa Chow (73-80-153), Hee Sue Condry (76-81-157), and Alice Kim (76-74-150) of Honolulu, Cassy Isagawa (74-73-147) of Wailuku, Maui, Maryssa Shigesato (73-84-165) of Mililani, and Taryn Yee (77-77-154) of Sacramento.
Bradley Shigezawa, like Ching, finished top of the 15-17 Boys division, the largest group with more than 50 golfers. Shigezawa topped the field with a seven-under par 137 (70-67) with an exemption to the Junior World.
“He must have been playing deep on the back nine with all the wind blowing,” said Ashworth. Shigezawa finished the back nine with a two-under par 34, the same score he carded on the opening round.
Following Shigezawa, Bou-An Fujieki of Honolulu topped the six spots with a two-under par 142 (69-73). Alika Bell, finishing the final round one-under par, of Kaneohe finished with a 144 (73-71), Justin Keiley of Haiku, Maui, followed at 145 (74-71), Alex Chiarella of Makawao, Maui, ended with a 146 (71-75), tying with Wenhau Luo of China (71-75-146). Thomas Yamashita of Kapolei rounded out the six at 167 (87-80).
Levi Miyashiro, one of four Kaua‘i golfer in that field, topped the Kaua‘i contingent with a 156 (75-81) followed a stroke back by Sean Mamaclay of Kapa‘a (79-78-157). Justin Uegawa (86-87-173) and Darren Valencia of Koloa (91-86-177) rounded out the 15-17 Kaua‘i boys.
With golfers from other age divisions still out on the course at Kaua‘i Lagoons, the remaining entrants and qualifiers will be featured in Sunday’s edition.
