Cajgc: Bahamas Looks To Improve On 6th Place – Bahamas Tribune

By RENALDO DORSETT

Tribune Sports Reporter

rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

THE Bahamas Golf Federation's team at the 2017 Caribbean Amateur Junior Golf Championships teed off competition yesterday at the St Andrews Golf Club in Maraval, Trinidad and Tobago and looks to improve on last year's sixth-place finish.

Following day one, Sophie Anand has been one of the top performers for the Bahamas thus far and finished just one stroke behind the leader in the Girls' Under-13 division.

The current Albany Women's Club champion and Bahamas junior national girls' under-13 champion shot an opening round 85 (+13).

Anand returns to make her second appearance as a member of Team Bahamas and will also look to better her third place finish from last year's CAJGC when she finished with a three-day total of 258 in the division.

Tyesha Tynes is making her CAJGC debut and is currently 12th in the 15-member field.

Haylie Turnquest is locked in another close race for the leader board of the Girls' U-15 division. Turnquest is in a two-way tie for third place with her opening round 83 (+11). Like Anand, she is one stroke behind the division leader.

Turnquest, the Bahamas' junior national champion for her age group, finished second in her division and No.19 overall, the best finish for Team Bahamas at CAJGC 2016 with a total score of 235.

Also in the division, Ashley Michel, in her her fourth appearance at the CAJGC, is currently in eighth place with a 98 (+26).

In the Boys' U-13, Javontae Pinder and Lexander Antoine are also making their tournament debuts. Pinder, the BGF U-13 champion, is currently ranked ninth among 13 golfers with an 89 (+17) and Antoine is at No.12 with a 101 (+29).

Hedge is the reigning boys' under-15 national champion and another young golfer making a national team debut this summer. His opening round 93 (+21) placed him at No.13 in the Boys' U15.

In the Boys' 18-U, team captain Cameron Riley is tied for No.12 with an opening round 80 (+8). The freshman at Florida A&M University finished 10th in his division and 29th overall last year.

Xavier Robinson shot a disappointing 92 (+20) in round one. The 2017 Bahamas junior national boys' champion is in his sixth appearance representing the Bahamas at the CAJGC tournament.

The lone competitor in the Girls' U-18, Inecia Rolle is in fourth place after she shot 86 (+14).

Rolle, a current freshman at Chowan University and a veteran junior national golfer, is also the BGF's national women's champion. She finished 7th in the division last year with a total of 254.

The Bahamas' eight-member team finished sixth last year at the 29th edition of the CAJGC, hosted in Christ Church, Barbados.

Puerto Rico led the field from start to finish and claimed their ninth consecutive title. They were followed by Jamaica who moved up to second from a fourth-place finish in the previous edition.

The Bahamas finished fifth in 2015 in St Croix, US Virgin Islands at the Carambola Golf and Country Club.

The were preceded fourth place finishes in both 2013 and 2014.

The championships are played annually and are rotated among the members of The Caribbean Golf Association.

This team event, first played in Puerto Rico in 1988, is played over 54 holes in three divisions for boys and girls aged 10-17 years.

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