Kimberly Kim from Hilo, Hawaii and Kelli Oride from Lihue, Hawaii have both found themselves the honor of being a part of the Rolex Junior All-Americans. They received the news in a notice from the American Junior Golf Association earlier this week on Tuesday, Oct. 27. Being named a part of the Rolex Junior All-Americans is always an honor and a privilege for any budding golfer. Golfing legends like Tiger Woods have been a part of the American Junior Golf Association and have found their skill and confidence polished from the association. Rolex, by its association with sports and junior golf has been trying to fulfill its aim of promoting human brilliance all along its history.

48 boys and 48 girls have already been named to the Rolex Junior Golf All-Americans. Each year players who have proved themselves as the world’s best junior golfers find themselves on the listings. Rolex has been supporting the American Junior Golf Association since 1983 and then went on to be the premier partner for the association in 2004. Rolex is the proprietor of the Rolex Junior Players of the Year, the Rolex All-America Teams and the Rolex Junior All-America Awards Banquet. With its constant efforts towards promoting excellence Rolex has also become the founding partner to the Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Grant Program.

Kimberly Kim is 18 years old and a freshman at the University of Denver. This is her sixth selection into the Rolex Junior Golf All-Americans and with this she has become the second-most-of-all-time to be named to the team. She has earned herself first-team honors three years in a row. At four out of five national junior events for this year, Kimberly Kim finished in the top three, thereby winning the Rolex Girls Junior Championship. This is the sort of dedication and talent Rolex wishes to highlight with its association and sponsorship of golf events.

Sixteen year old Kelli Oride has received an honorable mention to the Rolex Junior Golf All-American. She received the honor after her second win in the American Junior Golf Association’s ClubCorp Mission Hills Desert Junior. Kelli Oride is currently ranked at No. 43 in the Polo Golf Rankings. She also has to her credit two other top-10 finishes along with earning herself the HP Scholastic Junior All-American honor for this year.

The inclusion into the Rolex Junior All-American Teams is based entirely upon the Polo Golf Rankings as of Oct. 27. The team is made up of 96 junior golfers from 20 states and 7 foreign countries between 13 and 18 years of age. The Rolex Junior All-America Awards Banquet scheduled for Nov. 22 is where the boys and girls will be honored. The venue for the banquet is the PGA National Resort Spa in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The awards banquet shall be held in the true style that all Rolex ceremonies are held. Apart from the pride of being named to the team the golfers also look forward to the awards banquet that promises to be as exciting and extravagant as the sporting events and something which they’ll remember forever.

Emily Tubert is the current favorite in the list of the 26 Rolex Junior All Americans this year. Tubert, a freshman golfer is honing her talent as she participates in the Rolex Tournament of Champions in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Emily comes fresh from participation in the American Junior Golf Association Club-Corp Mission Hills Desert Junior that took place in the Mission Hills Country Club-Dinah Shore Tournament Course in Rancho Mirage. The first timer made her presence felt with shooting rounds of 73, 74,73 for a total of 220. Tubert scored for herself nine birdies while parring 32 holes. This was a good score for someone who has just started out and Tubert is leaving no stones unturned to better her score this season.

Tubert who is fond of all kinds of sports has given up playing basketball, softball and volleyball temporarily and is concentrating whole heartedly on golf. She calls it a more challenging alternative. And that is perhaps the reason why Rolex consorts with a game like golf and at a level where Rolex demands the same excellence that it lends to the making of its watches.

The young Emily has a very clear headed conception of why she wants to play the game. She is responsible towards her game like any professional golfer and will hold herself culpable to a win or a loss. The girl has learnt to take both defeat and victory in her stride and is gradually acquiring the right attitude for the game.

Tubart who took up playing golf only a year ago has the perfect golfer body. She is tall, lean and carries an athletic frame and a determination to win on the golf course. Her coach Zachary Allen, a De Bell golf instructor points out that Emily’s biggest “thing� is her steely conviction. The girl has already won four times and got herself medals and her passion for the game as her coach puts it, is unlimited and fierce. Emily started by winning the Optimist Park Golf Tournament with a score of 37 and happily took home her first tourney trophy. Her Burroughs coach is also gaga over her humility, saying Emily owes her success to her family and surroundings. Tubert has verbally committed herself to the University of Arkansas and was recently honored with the 2009 Girls Junior Americas Cup Team.

The Rolex sponsored American Junior Golf Association is a nonprofit organization that is committed to lending support to budding young men and women. The aim is to nurture those players who want to earn college golf scholarships and they have to score very well at the highly competitive junior golf championship to do the same.

The Rolex Tournament of Champions has been a thirty year event that has showcased young sporting talent and juvenile merit to the utmost. The championship has many big names that have emerged out of the tournament to go on to successfully meet bigger challenges in the game. Some of whom are David Duval, Bob May, David Gossett and Morgan Pressel, among others. Rolex a name that personifies not only flair but prides itself in having a keen eye for the best in spotting talent and catching them young, also hosts an annual dinner for guests, players and staff. It is a formal event where people get to know each other and learn to respect each other’s skills. The Rolex All American is proud to associate itself with a list of nation’s 46 best players. Emily Tubert is extremely optimistic about playing a good game and winning for herself the much coveted Rolex Crown.