LOCAL NOTES : Booth’s Easy Victory at PGA Junior Championship Ties Record

Kellee Booth of Coto de Caza shot a one-under-par 71 Friday to win the girls’ division of the PGA Junior Championship by seven shots at the PGA National Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

The victory, Booth’s seventh this year, ties a junior record set by Vicki Goetze in 1988 and tied by Tiger Woods this year. Booth will have three more chances this year to set the record.

Booth was the only player, male or female, to finish the tournament under par.

“That’s no big thing,” said Booth, who had a two-under 214. “(The boys) have a much more difficult golf course to play than I do. Personally, 5,300 yards is a little short. I hit an awful lot of wedges and sand wedges into par 4s.”

Eunice Choi of Laguna Hills was second at 221. Alicia Allison of Santa Ana tied for fourth at 227.

Scott Davis of Corona del Mar and Mark Kaplan, a former UC Irvine tennis standout, each won second-round matches in the qualifying tournament for U.S. Open at Flushing Meadows, N.Y.

Davis defeated Laurent Prades of France, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3, and Kaplan ousted Carl Limberger of Australia, 5-7, 6-4, 6-1.

Davis and Kaplan each need two more victories to earn one of eight spots in the 128-player main draw reserved for qualifiers.

Geoff Abrams of Newport Beach won in singles and doubles as the United States beat Taiwan, 3-0, in a semifinal match in the boys’ 14-and-under division of the International Tennis Federation World Youth Cup at Tokyo. The U.S. will face Austria in today’s final.

Michael Elfman, who coached the junior varsity last season, has been named girls’ soccer coach at Santa Margarita High.

Elfman was the boys’ coach at Laguna Beach High in the 1989-90 and 1990-91 seasons.