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Busy summer for Bermuda’s junior golfers

Bermuda Junior Golf Association have sent some of their most promising players to take part in a host of tournaments and attend overseas academies this summer.Three youngsters will play in the Optimist International Junior Golf Championships in Florida, including 15-year-old Elizabeth Parsons (girls 15-18 division) who represented Bermuda in recent Island Games.Accompanying her will be 15-year-old Sam Wehmeyer (boys 14-15 division) and 17-year-old Mitchell Campbell (boys 16-18 division).In addition to playing in their individual divisions, Wehmeyer and Campbell will team for the Optimist International which is being played at the PGA National in West Palm Beach, starting tomorrow.Other travelling overseas are Cory DeSilva, Brady Cordeiro, Walker Campbell and Joe Waters.After the Opimist event, Saltus pupil Parsons travels to Canada to take part in the Subway Junior Invitational Ken-Wo Golf Club in New Minus, Nova Scotia; the Canadian Junior Golf Association Atlantic Junior Championship at Oakfield Golf & Country Club in Halifax, Nova Scotia; and the Maple Leaf Junior Tour Collegiate-Bound Series in Canada.Wehmeyer, also a Saltus pupil, will be going to the Jim McLean Golf Academy in Miami.Mitchell Campbell, who attends the Hilton Head Preparatory School, Hilton Head, South Carolina, is moving to the Skidmore College, New York where he will be on the golf team.Sixteen-year-old DeSilva will attend the Junior Players Golf Academy Elite Players Camp in Hilton Head, which started on Sunday and continues to August 10He’s also scheduled to play in the HJGT Forest Hills Junior Open from August 3-4 in Augusta, Georgia, and the South East Junior Open from August 17-18 in Jacksonville, Florida.Cordeiro, 13, at pupil at Warwick Academy, played in the US Kids Teen Word Championships, a three-day event at Pinehurst Country Club in North Carolina over the weekend. He will then play in United States Kids Qualifying Tournament at Callipe Preserve CC in Pleasanton California and will move on to a two-day golf school with top instructor Mike Adams at the Medalist CC in Jupiter.Walker Campbell, 15, has left Saltus to attend to Hilton Head Preparatory School. As the 2013 BJGA National Champion, he is entitled to an invitation traditionally received from the Junior Orange Bowl in December.Twelve-year-old Joe Waters, currently a pupil at Saltus, has already played in two events the UK Lee Westwood Junior Golf Tour and Junior Championships at Seaford Golf Course. Another event on his calendar is the junior championships at Kings Hill Golf Course on August 6.Sixteen-year-old Warwick Academy pupil Arriek Douglas will attend the Gary Gilchrist School of Golf Academy, Orlando.