It was another chance to earn a spot in the field for the
Philadelphia Junior PGA Championship in a qualifier Tuesday at Downingtown
Country Club and a large field turned out.
The Philadelphia Junior PGA Championship will be held July 9
at The Springhaven Club and top finishers there will earn a trip to the
Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky. for the Boys Junior PGA Championship, one
of the top national junior events on the summer calendar, which tees off July
31.
Luca Jezzeny of Furlong fired a 1-under-par 71 over the
6,334-yard, par-72 Downingtown layout to win top honors in the 16-to-18
division and head a group of 21 players from the older group who earned tickets
to Springhaven.
Jezzeny, a senior at Central Bucks West, had birdies at
three, 10 and 12 in bettering par. William Bennink, a member of Unionville’s
PIAA Class AAA championship last fall, had a 2-under 34 on Downingtown’s front
nine as he matched par with a 72 to finish second to Jezzeny in the division.
Haverford School senior Peter Garno put his lacrosse stick
down long enough to finish tied for third at 2-over 73 with Morgan Lofland, a
PIAA Class AAA qualifier as a freshman at Conestoga last fall. Hunter King of
Atglen finished alone in fifth with a 74.
Benjamin Lee of Malvern and Alex Pillar of Hawley finished
tied for sixth, each carding a 4-over 76. A couple of West Chester guys, Ryan
D’Ariano and Matthew Feeney, shared eighth place at 5-over 77.
Three players – Nicholas Schnur of Lafayette Hill, Colby Hook
of Selbyville, Del. and Hayden Rousselle of Doylestown – finished tied for 10th,
each posting a 78. Evan Drummond of Exton finished 13th with a 79
and John “Jack” Hamilton IV of West Chester was 14th with an 80.
Wesley Sanders of Chadds Ford and Michael Festa of Ambler
shared 15th place at 81 and West Chester’s Cole Shew, coming off a
Junior Tour victory at Wyncote Golf Club Monday, and Nicky Scarpone of Broomall
finished tied for 17th at 82.
The last three players among the older guys to punch their
ticket to Springhaven included Jerry Haftmann of Springfield, Ryan Kennedy of
Wayne and Tyler Cole of Schuylkill Haven. They finished in a tie for 19th
while each carding an 83 to make the cut on the number.
Jolo Timothy Magcalayo, the Filipino who has made the Junior
Tour his home base for a summer of American junior golf, matched Jezzeny’s
1-under 71 to take top honors in the 13-to-15 division. Magcalayo had already
earned a spot in the field at Springhaven in a qualifier at the Bayside Resort
& Golf Club in Selbyville, Del. last week.
If he was just trying to stay sharp, Magcalayo accomplished
that as he made seven pars and birdied the eighth hole on a solid front nine.
Ryan McCabe, who won the District One Class AA individual
title and led Devon Prep to the district team crown as a freshman last fall, finished
second in the division with a solid 4-over 76. Like Shew, McCabe tuned up for
the qualifier at Downingtown by claiming a Junior Tour victory Monday at
Wyncote.
Strath Haven sophomore Jackson Debusschere finished third
with a 78, Luke Watson of Royersford was fourth with a 79 and Jack Davis of
Newtown Square was fifth with an 82.
Christopher Buysse of Paoli and Collin McDonald of Lower
Gwynedd grabbed the final two tickets to Springhaven from the younger group as
each posted an 83 to finish tied for sixth and make the cut on the number.
Kristof Kopecky of Garnet Valley and Andrew Ranaudo Jr. of
Malvern each carded an 85 to finish tied for eighth. Rounding out the top 10
were three players – Patrick Maxwell of Exton, David Fitzgerald Jr. of Bryn
Mawr and Auggie Reilly of Wayne – tied for 10th at 86.
It was a regular Junior Tour stop for the girls and the
nine-holers. The Philadelphia Girls Junior PGA Championship was held last week
at Riverton Country Club. That was the qualifier for the Girls Junior PGA
Championship, which tees off July 9 at the Kearney Hill Golf Links in
Lexington, Ky.
Jona Angela Magcalayo, like little brother Jolo Timothy
Magcalayo, is spending the summer playing junior golf in the United States and
has played solid golf on the Junior Tour. She was the only entrant in the girls
16-to-18 division and posted a 3-over 75, a round that included 13 pars and a
finishing birdie at the 18th.
Leah Walter of West Chester had her low round of the year,
an 86, to top the field in the 13-to-15 division for her first Junior Tour
victory. Katherine Colon of Hamilton, N.J. was the runnerup with a 101 and
another member of West Chester’s Team Walter, Sophie Walter, finished third
with a 105.
Samuel Feeney of the West Chester Feeneys topped the field
of nine-holers with a 4-over 40. Feeney finished strong with a birdie at the
eighth and a par at the ninth.
Sochin Blake of Berwyn and Tyler Debusschere of
Wallingford’s Team Debusschere shared second place, each posting a 43. Joshua
Baker of West Chester finished fourth with a
51.
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