Radnor High sophomore Brynn Walker fired a final-round 69 Tuesday to claim the Pennsylvania Golf Association Junior Girls? Championship.
Walker, playing out of St. Davids Golf Club, opened with a 76 Monday over the 5,685-yard, par-71 East Course at Hershey Country Club and trailed Jane Hopkinson-Wood by two shots.
Walker, who helped Radnor capture the PIAA Class AAA team title last fall, opened her final round with a birdie-bogey start. A birdie at the par-3 eighth hole enabled her to make the turn at 1-under 35. After a bogey at the 11th dropped her back to even for the day, Walker made birdies at the par-3 13th and the par-5 14th and parred in for a 2-under total that enabled her to finish at 3-over 145. That was one shot clear of Spring-Ford C.C.?s Hopkinson-Wood, who added a 1-over 72 to her opening-round 74 for a 4-over 146 total.
The next-best finisher was Macky Fouse of The Club at Shadow Lakes, who was 11 shots back of Hopkinson-Wood in third at 157.
Walker follows in the footsteps of Jackie Calamaro, Radnor?s 2009 PIAA champion who won the Pennsylvania Junior Girls? crown in 2008 and 2009. Walker is coming off a freshman season at Radnor that culminated in a tie for seventh at the PIAA Class AAA Tournament.
Walker?s Radnor teammate, Julia Curley, playing out of Philadelphia Country Club, had rounds of 84 and 81 at Hershey to finish in a tie for seventh at 165. Garnet Valley junior Annika Vandayar (82-86) was another three shots back of Curley in 11th place at 168.
On the boys side, recent Episcopal Academy graduate Sean Fahey, playing out of Overbrook G.C., had rounds of 72 and 73 over Hershey?s East Course (which measured 6,743 for the guys) for a 3-over 145 total that gave him third place. Fahey is headed for Dartmouth in the fall to continue his academic and golf pursuits.
Mike Hoare, a Cumberland Valley senior playing out of Carlisle C.C., fired a final-round of 4-under 67 to cruise to a four-shot victory. Combined with an opening-round 73, it gave Hoare a 2-under 140 total. Lancaster C.C.?s Walker Kirk (75-69) finished second at 2-over 144.
Haverford School senior Jake Van Arkel held a share of the lead after the opening round as he matched par with a 71. Van Arkel, playing out of Merion G.C., fell back with a 77 in the second round and ended up in a tie for 11th at 148.
Penncrest senior Ethan Heller, playing out of White Manor C.C., had rounds of 73 and 77 to finish in a tie for 14th at 150. Newtown Square resident Michael Davis (76-75), a senior at Malvern Prep, was another shot back in a tie for 20th at 151. Continued...
Other Delco finishers included recent Springfield graduate Brian Todaro (76-76?152, tied for 24th); Edgmont C.C.?s Nick Calabrese (78-78?156, tied for 44th); Rolling Green G.C.?s Matthew Bastian Jr. (80-78?156, tied for 56th); Merion G.C.?s Peter Bradbeer (84-76?160, tied for 65th); Bonner-Prendergast junior Quinn Dolan (85-79?164, tied for 81st), who plays out of Rolling Green; Episcopal Academy junior Trey Croney (85-80?165), who plays out of Overbrook and Merion G.C.?s JB Bradbeer (82-83?165), both of whom finished tied for 83rd; Aronimink G.C.?s Teddy Selverian (80-91?171, tied for 108th); Rolling Green?s Andrew Todaro (90-85) and Ryan Brennan (88-87), both of whom finished tied for 117th; and Aronimink?s Jack McAleese (95-92?187, 126th).
Berman earns U.S. Junior Amateur spot
Cole Berman, the reigning Daily Times Player of the Year, made a calculated decision to take a road trip in his fourth bid to make it the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship.
And when Berman holed a five-foot putt on the 195-yard ninth hole at Bethesda Country Club Monday on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with Edric Wung from McLean, Va., the Haverford School senior secured his trip to the U.S. Junior Amateur, which will be played July 22 to 27 at Martis Camp Club in Truckee, Calif.
Berman, a Georgetown recruit, joins two other Delco standouts in earning tickets to Martis Camp as Radnor All-Delco Carey Bina and Michael Davis, the Newtown Square resident who won the Inter-Ac Tournament as a freshman at Malvern Prep, each qualified at different sites late last week. (That news broke too late for last week?s Golf Notebook, but appeared on my golf blog T Mac Tees Off at delcotimes.com).
Berman, a two-time winner of the Inter-Ac League Tournament, had rounds of 71 and 72 for a 3-over 143 total. Jack Fitzgerald of Wilmington, N.C., claimed medalist honors and the other qualifying berth with a pair of 71s for a 2-over 142 total.
Wung opened with a 73, but got into the playoff with Berman by firing an even-par 70 in the second round for the day?s lowest round. Wung missed a putt on the playoff that was just outside of Berman?s ball and Berman dropped his putt to advance.
Bina, an All-Delco as a junior at Radnor who is headed for Wake Forest, also survived a playoff in the qualifier conducted by the Golf Association of Philadelphia at Indian Valley C.C. June 28. Bina had rounds of 75 and 73 at the 6,864-yard, par-72 Indian Valley layout for a 148 total that left him in a three-way playoff for the final qualifying berth. Bina promptly ended the playoff by draining a 10-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole.
Wissahickon senior Jalen Griffin capped a hot week on the GAP circuit by claiming medalist honors at Indian Valley with rounds of 73 and 70 for a 1-under 143 total.
A day earlier, Davis, who plays out of Aronimink G.C. and Merion G.C., teed it up at a U.S. Junior Amateur qualifier at Springdale Golf Club in Princeton, N.J. and Davis claimed medalist honors with a 139 total. Continued...
It will be the second trip to the U.S. Junior Amateur for Davis. He was the Inter-Ac League champion as a freshman in the league?s final spring campaign. He was hampered by back problems during the scholastic season last fall, but appears to be fully healed.
Philadelphia PGA Junior Tour
Jacob Liberman of Radnor posted an 87 in a Philadelphia PGA Junior Tour stop at LedgeRock G.C. near Reading Monday to finish seventh in the 13-to-15 division.
Among the nine-holers, William Blatchford of Wayne carded a 50 to finish fifth.
Tournaments and outings
JOHN MORSCHELLA TOURNAMENT ?FORE THE KIDS? will be held Saturday, Aug. 3 at Becket G.C. in Swedesboro, N.J. for the benefit of the Folcroft Boys Club. Cost is $100 per player and includes greens fee, cart, individual and team awards, door prizes and beverages and lunch on the course. Registration is at 10 a.m. with a shotgun start at 11 a.m. A buffet awards dinner will follow golf at the Red Lantern?s Tiki Bar, 41 Oak Lane. Individual and corporate hole sponsorships are available. Call: Don ?Gabby? Hartnett 215-778-0360 or email him at don@balford.com
Source: http://delcotimes.com/articles/2013/07/06/sports/doc51d794ef4240d562434928.txt
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