Monifa Sealy of TRINIDAD (2011) opened with a round of +1 (73) on Saturday to lead all scores in the Girls 13-18 division by 5 strokes. Miss Sealy, 14, is a first year player on the FCWT, but already has two Top 3 finishes. She will be looking for her first win on Sunday when she tees it up for the final round. Her playing partners will be Caramia Sitompul of Jakarta, INDONESIA (2009) and Kristen Warhurst of Mobile, AL (2008), who are tied for 2nd place at 78. Lauren Benetti of Celebration, FL (2008) is in 4th place after an opening round of 80. Monifa led this division in birdies with 5 while Victoria Kiser of Orlando, FL (2010) led in pars with 12. Miss Kiser, who has 3 wins this season, is currently tied for 5th place with 13 year old Ying Yun of Beijing, CHINA.
Fatehbir Dhaliwal of Chandigarh, INDIA (2008) fired a bogey-free round of 3 under par on Saturday at the Orange Lake Open. The 18-year old senior has been playing well of late finishing T2 at Grand Cypress and T4 at Mystic Dunes where he carded a final round of 68. He will begin the final round on Sunday with a one shot advantage over Cory Crump of Peachtree City, GA (2008). Crump has two top 10s this season, but will also be looking for his first win. Another senior, Jay Mulieri of Silver Spring, MD, also came in under par with a 1 under for the opening round. The three will be paired together for Sunday's final round. Mulieri and Daniel Bakaley of Middleburg, FL (2008) tied for the most birdies in this division on Saturday with 5 each. The next to the last group of the day will include Bakaley, who posted a round of even par, FCWT veteran Andrew Colvin of Longwood, FL (2009), who is at +1, and Shun Yat Hak of Lake Mary, FL (2012). Hak is tied for 6th place at +2 with Tae Lim of Seoul, KOREA (2009). Jordan Duffy of Alberta, CANADA, sits alone in 8th place after an opening round of 75 (+3). Four players are tied for 9th place at 76 (+4): Luke Benford of Hampshire, ENGLAND (2008), who tied our leader for the most pars with 15, Andrew Horrocks of Toronto, CANADA (2008), Nico Irrang of Bavaria, GERMANY (2008), and Guan Huang of Sichuan, CHINA (2010).
Will Townsend of Durham, NC (2011) leads the Boys 13-15 division after an opening round of 75 (+3). Dylan Healey of Franklin, TN (2012) is just 3 strokes back in his first FCWT event of the season. Dylan led the field in pars on Saturday with 11. FCWT newcomer Todd Berglund of Pittsburgh, PA (2010) is tied for 3rd place at +9 (81) with Robert Smith of Osteen, FL (2010). Smith tied Robbie Denove of Pittsburgh, PA (2010) for the most birdies in this division on Saturday. Each player had 4. Prem (Ben) Samritpricha of Bangkok, THAILAND (2012) and Jason Zhou of Skillman, NJ (2011) are tied for 5th at 83 (+11).
There is a three-way tie for the lead in the Boys 11-12 division. Manish Reddy of Orlando, FL (2013), C.J. Wagner of Easton, PA (2013), and Terrence Zhang of Vancouver, CANADA (2015) all carded opening rounds of 84. Reddy led the division in birdies with 4, while Wagner and Zhang both posted 8 pars to lead in that statistic. Osama Khan of BARBADOS (2012) and Kristian Perry of Boca Raton, FL (2015) both carded rounds of 86 and will start in a tie for 4th on Sunday. Rigel Fernandes of Dubai, UAE (2013), who has won twice this season, will start in 6th place after an opening round of 90. |
