Kim, Suarez, Pawul and Hoffmann Advance to Semifinals of MGA/MetLife Boys Championship
Bedford, NY-Sun Ho-Kim of Flushing, NY, following up a runner-up finish in last month’s MGA Junior, led a group of four determined juniors, who survived the first and second rounds of the MGA/MetLife Boys Championship played at Bedford Golf and Tennis Club in Bedford, NY. In addition to Kim, Stephen Suarez of Springfield, NJ, Tim Pawul of East Setauket, NY and Morgan Hoffmann of Wyckoff, NJ all survived a day of hard-fought matches that began with sixteen players under the age of 16. The four advance to the semifinal rounds tomorrow, beginning at 8:00 AM.
Pawul outmatched 2003 MGA Boys Champion Mark Costanza 3 & 2 in a hard fought match, while Kim edged out Zachary Plutzik, the 14-year old from New York City, who impressively made the cut in June’s “Ike” Stroke Play Championship, 2 & 1.
Suarez defeated Tim Kelly of Staten Island, NY, 6 & 5 to advance and will face Kim in the second match beginning at 8:08 a.m. The 14-year-old Hoffmann, a freshman-to-be at Ramapo High School in New Jersey, earned his trip to the semifinals by beating Sam DaSilva of Wyckoff, NJ. It is an impressive showing for Hoffmann who is no stranger to winning having won the AJGA’s Nike Golf Junior in Quad Cities, Iowa, earlier this year.
The four boys will return tomorrow for the semifinal and final rounds that will determine the winner of the nation’s oldest junior championship.
For more information contact Tommy Dee or Gene Westmoreland of the MGA at (914) 347-GOLF or visit the MGA website @ www.mgagolf.org.
