Brynn Walker, Radnor’s two-time PIAA Class AAA champion,
wanted to make a couple of forays to warmer climes to get some top-notch
competition to keep her game sharp as she and pal Madelein Herr, the District
One champion from Council Rock North, prepare for another run at the U.S.
Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship in May.
Walker, a senior who is headed for North Carolina in the
fall, was part of a contingent of Main Line junior golfers who teed it up in
American Junior Golf Association events in Florida over the Easter weekend.
Walker added a final-round 80 Sunday to rounds of 77 and 73
to finish tied for 15th at 230 in the TaylorMade-adidas Golf Junior
at Innisbrook hosted by Justin Rose in Palm Harbor, Fla. The 1-over middle
round over the 6,079-yard, par-71 Copperhead Course was clutch because it got
Walker safely inside the cut and assured her a tee time for the Easter Sunday
windup.
The run by Walker and Herr to the semifinals of the inaugural
U.S. Women’s Four-Ball last spring at the Bandon Dunes Resort in Oregon
automatically qualified them for this year’s event, which will be played May 21
to 25 at the Tom Doak-designed Blue Course at the Streamsong Resort in Florida.
Walker, who plays out of St. Davids Golf Club, and Herr, a Penn State recruit,
will be likely be busy with college golf when the 2017 U.S. Women’s Four-Ball
comes around.
The winner of the girls division at Innisbrook was Grace Ni
of Cypress, Texas who had rounds of 73, 67 and 77 for a 4-over 217 total that
cleared the field by two shots.
Also making the trip to Florida’s West Coast was Agnes Irwin
sophomore Kaitlyn Lees, who plays out of Philadelphia Country Club. Lees is
gearing up for the spring Inter-Ac League girls season. She has been a
top-three finisher at the Inter-Ac Tournament in each of the last three
springs.
Lees had rounds of 76 and 82 for a 158 total that missed the
cut by six shots.
Peter Bradbeer, a senior at Friends’ Central and a Bucknell
recruit, had rounds of 75 and 81 for a 156 total that missed the cut by two
shots. Bradbeer plays out of Merion Golf Club.
The winner of the boys division was Brandon Mancheno of
Jacksonville, Fla., who had rounds of 74, 67 and 75 for a 3-over 216 total over
the same Copperhead Course that challenged the PGA Tour pros in the Valspar
Championship two weeks ago. Mancheno finished two shots ahead of the pack.
Over on Florida’s East Coast, the AJGA staged the Core Golf
Academy Junior All-Star contested at the PGA National Resorts Spa’s Fazio
Course in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
John Updike, who had a spectacular freshman season in
leading Malvern Prep to the Inter-Ac title last fall, had rounds of 80 and 77
over the 6,765-yard, par-72 Fazio course for a 157 total that missed the cut by
five shots. Updike plays out of Aronimink Golf Club.
The boys winner at PGA National was Bryan Teoh Wiyang of
Jupiter, Fla. via Malaysia. Wiyang had rounds of 71, 68 and 72 for a 5-under
211 total that gave him a five-shot margin of victory.
The girls winner at PGA National was 12-year-old Yin (Cindy)
Kou of Windermere, Fla. via China. Kou had steady rounds of 74, 72 and 72 for a
2-over 218 total that gave her a three-shot margin of victory.
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