Royce Rosenthal '13 Recruiting Profile

I am a 6'0"  Freshman attending Warner Pacific College.I had a 2.96 g.p.a. at Lahainaluna. I am blessed to have Mr. Sutee Nitakorn as my high school coach. He also is the Head Professional at the Kaanapali Resort golf courses. I am also happy to have Mr. Ben Hongo as my private swing coach who is a PGA teaching Pro at the Kapalua Golf Academy.I have been playing golf in a competitive manner for the past 8 years. I am a member of the Hawaii State Junior Golf Assn. (HSJGA), Lahaina Junior Golf Assn. (LJGA), U.S. Kids golf and the International Junior Golf Assn. (IJGA) I have competed on the PGA Junior Series, and on the Aloha Sectional Junior PGA Series. I have played in the 2009 and 2011 Maui Open and in the 2009 Hawaii State Open. I placed 5th in the 2010 USGA Public Links sectional Qualifer. I also played in the 2011 Hawaiian Classic U.S. Kids regional tournament and captured the championship. I have won the MJGA match play championsips twice and the MJGA stroke play championship once. I was selected 4 times to compete in the Hilo-Maui Cup team matches. I also won the 2009 and 2011 Lahaina cup and 2010 and 2011 LJGA tournament championship. In my 3 years at Lahainaluna I was selected to the Maui Interscholastic League All Conference Team. I qualified and played in the 2010, 2011 and 2012 Hawaii High School State Championship and had the top Freshman Score in the tournament in 2010 and in 2011 and 2012 place in the top 20 out of 96 participants. I live with my grandparents who have adopted me. We are a Christian family and they have installed in me good christian values. Unfortunately my grandparents are not financially been able to support me in my intentions to wanting to play in alot of mainland tournaments so far. I have played in 3 mainland tournaments and my best finish was 3rd at Temecula, Ca in an IJGT major tour event. I consider myself a hard worker on and off the course and have leadership qualities. I am Captain of my high school team this year as a junior. I am passionate about my golf game and would love the opportunity to play at the collegiate level. I am open to all levels of College golf.I believe this statement is how I approach my golf game every time I go out on the course.When I stand before God at the end of my life,I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left.And I could say "I used everything that you gave me."