LEE, MOON CAPTURE IIAJC TITLES:

After four days of intense play and weather delays at Dornick Hills Country Club in Ardmore, Okla., the 36th annual Independent Insurance Agent Junior Classic (IIAJC) concluded recently in thrilling fashion for newly crowned champions, Alina Lee, 14, of Evans, Georgia, and Ji Ho Moon, 15, of Ellicott City, Maryland. The IIAJC, the third longest-running junior golf event in the country, provides young golfers the genuine feel of PGA and LPGA events through a 72-hole, stroke-play event and practice round. By the start of the tournament, more than 7,000 junior golfers had competed in 400 local and state qualifiers for one of the 162 coveted spots at the national finals. The last day of this year’s national finals, Lee shot a 5-over-par 76 to finish with a four-day total of 300, four strokes ahead of runner-up Michelle Grilli of Lutherville, Maryland, who finished at 304, and 11 strokes ahead of Ann Laney of Charlotte, North Carolina, who finished third at 311. Corrine Carr of Pinehurst, North Carolina, took fourth with 312. In the boys’ division, Moon fought off a late surge by Allen Koon of Bamberg, South Carolina, to take home the championship by five strokes, shooting an even-par 70 and finishing with an even-par 280.