MIZUNO NORTH AMERICA CUP
Colleton River Plantation Golf Club
Bluffton, South Carolina
July 7-10, 2008

The international event takes on a Ryder Cup format with the CJGA Team Canada competing against IJGT Team USA.  CJGA Team Canada won the 2007 for the first time on home soil. The American team captured the 2005 and 2006 Mizuno North America Cup to lead the all-time series lead 3-2. In order to ensure that junior golfers across Canada and the United States are granted an opportunity to qualify for this prestigious event, the CJGA and IJGT will select their respective teams after conducting qualifying tournaments in 2008 to make certain that each team is well represented by their respective top level junior golfers. CJGA Team Canada will have an opportunity to attend an elite training camp conducted by CJGA national coach, Sean Foley, prior to the tournament.

Format

• Fourball, Foursomes, and Single Matches

Team

Requirements
Juniors who wish to represent CJGA Team Canada must meet the following requirements:

• Juniors must play in the designated qualifier for the international competition
• Juniors must meet the age requirement for the international event when participating in the qualifier. (Please click here to visit the Tournament Schedule to view the list of qualifiers for each province.)
• Juniors must be a member of the Canadian Junior Golf Association
• Juniors must be in good standing with the Canadian Junior Golf Association
• Juniors who are selected for CJGA Team Canada must be a Canadian citizen  
• Juniors must meet the requirement score for his/hers age category:

Girls – 160     Boys 13 & Under – 158     Boys 14 to 19 – 150

Selection Process:
The CJGA Team Canada Selection Committee will determine the juniors who represent CJGA Team Canada by the following process:

• All results from the designated qualifiers are merged into one national field in each age category
• Scores will then be adjusted based on the difficulty of weather conditions, course conditions, course slope, and course rating
• The adjusted scores will be sorted by the committee.
• Juniors with serious code of conduct violations will be removed from the list  
• The juniors with the lowest adjusted scores in each age category will then be selected to represent CJGA Team Canada