Af­ter pro­duc­ing out­stand­ing per­for­mances at the na­tion­al tri­als, Sachin Ku­mar, Wan Ju Lee and Di­nesh Jack­ree have once again shot their way on­to T&T's 25-mem­ber squad for the 25th an­nu­al Caribbean Am­a­teur Ju­nior Golf Cham­pi­onships (CA­JGC). The cham­pi­onships will be held at the Guavaber­ry Golf and Coun­try Club in Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic from Ju­ly 2–6. Jack­ree, Lee and Ku­mar, three promis­ing mem­bers of last year's ju­nior team shone on the sec­ond day of tri­als held last week­end at the St An­drew's Golf Club in Mo­ka, Mar­aval. The dy­nam­ic trio were in fine form, all pro­duc­ing three sub-par rounds. Thir­teen-year-old Ku­mar shot a five-un­der-par 67 while Lee and Jack­ree, both com­pet­ed in the boys 14-15 cat­e­go­ry, shoot­ing one-un­der 71s. On the first day of tri­als, 15-year-old Jack­ree al­so took the spot­light end­ing on a su­perb round of par 71.

This year's team com­pris­es a mix of ex­pe­ri­enced play­ers in­clud­ing stal­wart Robert Boocock who will be com­pet­ing for his last time as a ju­nior, new­com­er to the Un­der-13 cat­e­go­ry Sab­ri­na Mitchell, and 16-year-old Matthew Mar­quez who anx­ious­ly re­turns home to play in his fourth Caribbean Ju­nior Cham­pi­onship. Mitchell is joined by Ser­e­na Mac Ken­zie who re­cent­ly won the girls Un­der-13 cat­e­go­ry at the Re­pub­lic Bank spon­sored Caribbean Ju­nior Cham­pi­onships. The an­nu­al tour­na­ment is held over 54 holes and sees young play­ers from eight coun­tries com­pete in three age group cat­e­gories. Along­side the grand prize of win­ning the Hank James Tro­phy for the high­est scor­ing coun­try, is the com­pe­ti­tion for the ju­nior boys play­ing in the 16-17 and 14-15 age groups where the high­est ac­cu­mu­lat­ed score al­so wins the coun­try the chance to rep­re­sent the re­gion at the qual­i­fi­er for the Ju­nior World Team Cham­pi­onships.

Team

Boys 16-17

Robert Boocock, Jean-Marc Lawrence and Matthew Mar­quez

Re­serves – Arvin Bhim and Chris­t­ian Townsend

Girls 16-17

Christi­na Fer­reira and Ar­i­anne MacKen­zie

Re­serve – Alyssa Ra­hamat­u­la

Boys 14-15

Axl Bai­ley, Di­nesh Jack­ree and Wan Ju Lee

Re­serve – Chad Phillip and Shi­va Ar­joon-Singh

Girls 14-15

Kezia Bai­ley and Ys­abelle Lawrence

Re­serve – Sab­ri­na Chan

Boys 13 and Un­der

Liam Bry­den and Sachin Ku­mar

Re­serves – Sam Avey, Jonathon Greenidge, Sol Jo­han­ni and Varun Singh

Girls 13 and Un­der

Ser­e­na MacKen­zie and Sab­ri­na Mitchell

Re­serve – Ana Fer­reira