LOCAL NOTES : Woods Cools Off the Competition, Wins at Pinehurst

Tiger Woods of Cypress continued his torrid summer pace Tuesday, winning the 24th Insurance Youth Golf Classic by nine shots at Pinehurst Country Club’s No. 7 course in Pinehurst, N.C.

Woods, who won his second consecutive U.S. Junior championship earlier this month, took his second IYGC title with a final-round 73. His four-day total was an eight-under-par 280. The runner-up was Michael Jones of Mesa, Ariz.

Woods, 16, who also won this event in 1990, joins PGA Tour veteran Billy Andrade as the only two-time winners of the prestigious junior championship.

“This golf course requires a player to hit the ball straight and to be patient,” Woods said of the 7,114-yard layout. “My goal here was to hit each fairway and each green and go from there.”

The field played in rain on three of four days.

Chris Berry of Yorba Linda shot 72 to pick up 13 places on the field and finish tied for 10th at 302.

Eunice Choi of Laguna Hills shot a 73 and is the first-round leader at the American Junior Golf Assn. tournament being played at the Robert Trent Jones course in Ithaca, N.Y.

Choi shot 35-38, and leads by four shots with two days left to play.

In the boys’ 13-14 division, Jeffrey McGraw of Fullerton shot 77 and is in a second-place tie with Bryan Burns of Kokomo, Ind., three shots behind leader William Snellings of Ridgefield, Conn.

Kellee Booth of Coto de Caza shot two-over 74 and took sole possession of the lead in the AJGA’s Raymond Floyd Turnberry Isle Junior Classic in Aventura, Fla. After two of three rounds, Booth has a total of 149 and leads Wendi Patterson of Atlanta by two strokes.

David Warady of Huntington Beach finished fifth in Tuesday’s 60th stage of the 64-day Runner’s World Trans America Footrace, but only lost a little of his overall lead in the 3,000-mile event.

Warady covered the 41.55 miles from New Oxford to Lancaster, Pa., in 6 hours 56 minutes 44 seconds. Milan Milanovich of Switzerland won the stage in 6:06:16 to cut 53:38 off Warady’s lead. Warady is now ahead by 10:37:36.

About 170 miles remain in the race, which is scheduled to end Saturday in New York’s Central Park. Today’s stage is 48 miles from Lancaster to Kutztown, Pa.

Thirteen of the original 24 starters are still running.

i Lance Eddy, softball coach at Canyon High School, said Tuesday that he has been hired to coach softball at Irvine Valley College.

Eddy has been the Comanches’ coach for 10 years. He had a record of 172-99-4 and won three Century League titles.

“I had to get out before I lost 100 games,” Eddy said. “This is really a tremendous opportunity. They have a great campus and the area is a hotbed of softball.”

Eddy replaces Dennis Powell, who coached the Lasers to a 1-20 record in their first season of competition.