By DARRELL TUEBNER

The junior summer season is just around the corner and the usual

championships dot the landscape, although some in different spots and a few new tournaments will be conducted in North Carolina.

The Carmel Junior Invitational will conduct their inaugural championship June 6-7 at Carmel Country Club in Charlotte. Contact Heather Hauk at 704-542-2457 for more information.

The AJGA will come to North Carolina for the annual Greater Greensboro Junior, June 12-14, at the Cardinal Golf Club in Greensboro and for the Canon Cup at Biltmore Forest Country Club in Asheville August 6-9.

The Carolinas Professional Golfers Association Junior Championship will be contested June 30-July 1 at Wild Wing Golf Plantation in Myrtle Beach. The traditional date of the last weekend in July was moved up and qualifiers were eliminated (the tournament will exempt players using the TYGA and SCJGA (South Carolina Junior Golf Association) Junior Rankings as of June 1) due to a schedule change in the National Championship that the PGA conducts. The boys and girls winner will advance to the national final, July 18-21 at the Westfield Companies Country Club in Westfield Center, Ohio. Also the weekend of June 30-July 1 is the Mid-Pines Junior at Mid Pines Golf Club in Southern Pines, North Carolina.

The Independent Insurance Agents Youth Classic will conduct qualifiers in early to mid-June for the state championships at Mid Pines and Pine Needles July 14-15. For qualifying dates go to www.thecga.org and click on Tournament Schedules and then Junior Schedule of the Carolinas. One recent change in qualifying will have the Charlotte area qualifier conducted June 19 instead of June 12 as originally published. For more information contact Drew Hoover at 919-556-0656.

The 2001 Carolinas Golf Association, Tarheel Youth Golf Association (TYGA) and United States Golf Association Junior championship qualifying schedules will feature a new event for the TYGA series as well as the traditional North Carolina and Carolinas Junior championship, this year with qualifying sites.

The Tarheel Youth Golf Association added two one-day sites, at Salem Glen Country Club in Clemmons on June 5 and Flag Tree Golf Club in Fairmont on June 7, both first time sites for TYGA. The addition of the Par-Three Shootout at Pinewild Country Club in Pinehurst, a new addition to the TYGA schedule, should prove popular.

The format for the par three shootout will be as follows: The field will

be divided into seven age divisions. All players will play 18 holes on the

Azalea Course at Pinewild. One player from each age division will qualify

for the shootout. The next lowest three scorers not otherwise qualifying will also be entered into the shootout for a total of ten. The shootout will consist of all players playing the first hole with the high scorer eliminated. Ties for elimination will be broken with pre-determined closest to the hole shots from around the putting green. The shootout will eliminate one player per hole until there is one player left, who will be declared the champion after play of the ninth hole. Trophies will be awarded to all players who qualify for the shootout.