JAMAICA'S 14-MEMBER national team leaves the island this morning for Cayman to compete in the Caribbean Amateur Golf Cham-pionships (CAGC) which begin on Wednesday.

The Jamaican contingent will be headed by Xavier Rose, the new national champion in the recently held Jamaica Amateur Championships. Thirteen-year-old Jonathan Newnham, who will become the the youngest golfer to represent Jamaica at the senior level, also leaves with the team.

Newnham had scores of 77, 74, 78 and 81 at the national trials to earn himself a place on Hoerman Cup side.

Also on the team will be another teenager, 15-year-old Itorria Marley, who will become the youngest female to represent Jamaica at the senior level. She will play on the George Teale Trophy team with her aunt, Jodi Barrow, and evergreen Maggie Lyn.

The team will compete in five different trophy categories, namely: Hoerman Cup (Rose, Paul Thompson, Fabian Campbell, Delroy Johnson and Newnham); Ramon Baez Trophy (Radcliff Knibbs and Gifford Wilmot); Francis and Steele Perkins Trophy (George Hugh and Robert Chin); Higgs and Higgs Trophy (Dennis Atkinson and Hamar Dayes) and the George Teale Trophy (Barrow, Lyn and Marley).