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In pursuit of AJGA player of the year honors, Cory Whitsett shot a 3-under 69 Saturday at the Ping Invitational to take a one shot lead over Anthony Paolucci (70).

Whitsett, the top-ranked player in the Golfweek/Titleist Junior Rankings who won the Rolex Tournament of Champions and Western Junior earlier this summer, made six birdies at Karsten Creek. He finished fifth at this event last year.

Paolucci, who lost to Whitsett in the finals of the 2007 U.S. Junior Amateur, birdied Nos. 15, 17 and 18. Earlier this summer, he won the Junior PGA Championship.

Third-ranked Jordan Spieth shot 73 and is third.

Cameron Peck, who is also in the running for AJGA player of the year honors after winning two invitationals and the U.S. Junior this summer, is not in the field.

In the girls’ division, four players share the lead at 3-over 75 – Jennifer Johnson, Tiffany Lua, Stacey Kim and Kristen Park

Johnson won the Rolex Tournament of Champions in July, while Lua finished runner-up.

Kim bogeyed Nos. 12-15, and made double bogey on No. 17, before making birdie at 18.

Park won the U.S. Girls’ Junior last year.

Just 13 of 30 girls broke 80.

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Scores with relation to par from the first round of the Ping Invitational, played Oct. 11 at the par-72, 7,285-yard (6,273 yards for girls) Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Okla.:

BOYS

1. Cory Whitsett	69			-3
2. Anthony Paolucci	70			-2
3. Jordan Spieth	73		+	1
4. Cheng-Tsung Pan	74		+	2
5. Ramsey Sahyoun	75		+	3
5. Jeffrey Kang	75		+	3
5. Daniel Lee	75		+	3
8. Mario Clemens	76		+	4
8. John Young Kim	76		+	4
8. Talor Gooch	76		+	4
8. Phillip Choi	76		+	4
8. Byeong-hun An	76		+	4
8. Brinson Paolini	76		+	4
8. Bobby Wyatt	76		+	4
15. Brandon Rodgers	77		+	5
15. Juan Pablo Hernandez	77		+	5
15. Jade Scott	77		+	5
15. Dominic Bozzelli	77		+	5
19. Evan Beck	78		+	6
19. Patrick Cantlay	78		+	6
21. Jacob Everts	79		+	7
21. Andrew Yun	79		+	7
21. James Back	79		+	7
24. Cody Kent	81		+	9
24. Austin Cody	81		+	9
24. Patrick Winther	81		+	9
24. Keith Mitchell	81		+	9
28. Michael McGee	82		+	10
28. Landon Lyons	82		+	10
28. Landon Tujague	82		+	10
28. Nicholas Losole III	82		+	10
32. Franco Castro	83		+	11
32. Seth Reeves	83		+	11
32. Brenden Redfern	83		+	11
32. Kevin Phelan	83		+	11
36. Chandler Rusk	84		+	12
36. Cameron Wilson	84		+	12
36. Rak Cho	84		+	12
39. Austin Cook	85		+	13
39. Zachary Blair	85		+	13
39. Tyler McCumber	85		+	13
39. Trey Kaahanui	85		+	13
43. Tom Lovelady	86		+	14
44. Richard Dearinger	87		+	15
44. John Catlin	87		+	15
46. Logan McCracken	88		+	16
47. Steven Kearney	89		+	17
WD. Mike Genovese
GIRLS
1. Jennifer Johnson	75		+	3
1. Tiffany Lua	75		+	3
1. Stacey Kim	75		+	3
1. Kristen Park	75		+	3
5. Jenny Shin	76		+	4
6. Grace Na	77		+	5
6. Christine Song	77		+	5
8. Karen Chung	78		+	6
8. Kristina Wong	78		+	6
10. Victoria Tanco	79		+	7
10. Rachel Morris	79		+	7
10. Jane Rah	79		+	7
13. Erynne Lee	80		+	8
13. Kyung Kim	80		+	8
13. Alexandra Stewart	80		+	8
16. Veronica Valerio	82		+	10
16. Luz Alejandra Cangrejo	82		+	10
16. Alexis Thompson	82		+	10
16. Alison Lee	82		+	10
16. Stephanie Kim	82		+	10
21. Danielle Kang	83		+	11
21. Annie Park	83		+	11
21. Jessica Korda	83		+	11
21. Brittany Altomare	83		+	11
25. Kimberly Kim	85		+	13
25. Victoria Sungmin Park	85		+	13
27. Mary Michael Maggio	86		+	14
28. Doris Chen	87		+	15
29. Ginger Howard	91		+	19
30. Michelle Yang	92		+	20

Posted: 10/11/2008

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