Bagga tunes up for Bert Linton Inter-Ac individual championship with Junior Tour win at Spring Hollow

    Germantown Academy junior Ajeet Bagga tuned up for the Bert Linton Inter-Ac League individual championship by capturing a Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour victory with a 1-under-par 69 in a stop at Spring Hollow Golf Club in Spring City Sunday.

   Eight days earlier, Bagga claimed a win in the 16-to-18 division of a Philly Junior Tour stop at Garrisons Lake Golf Club. He proceeded to take medalist honors in Germantown Academy’s final two Inter-Ac invitationals last week at Sunnybrook Golf Club and The 1912 Club to nail down first place in the league’s regular-season points race.

   All of which makes Bagga one of the favorites when he tees it up Wednesday at Llanerch Country Club in the Bert Linton Inter-Ac individual championship. Bagga helped the Patriots finish second behind Inter-Ac champion Malvern Prep in the team chase.

   Bagga got off to a fast start at the par-70 Spring Hollow layout with birdies at the first two holes and another at six on his way to a 1-under 34 on the outgoing nine. He added birdies at the 13^th and 15^th holes on the incoming nine and finished with 10 pars on his scorecard overall.

   Adrian Jordan of Lawrence Township, N.J. finished three shots behind Bagga in second place as he made an eagle at the par-6 sixth hole, added birdies at two, 13 and 15 and had seven pars on his card on his way to a solid 2-over 72.

   Ben Pintof, his senior season at Springfield High behind him, made a birdie at the sixth hole and had 11 pars on his card, including a run of six straight from 11 through 16, as he finished another three shots behind Jordan in third place with a 5-over 75.

   Joshua Freeman of Middletown, Del. took fourth place with a 79, Michael Dignazio of Wilmington, Del. was fifth with an 80, Peter Lafon of Haddon Township, N.J. was sixth with an 86 and Liam Crowley of Line Lexington rounded out the field in the 16-to-18 division as he finished alone in seventh with a 90.

   Grant Burkhart of Kennett Square made six birdies, including a run of four straight from the 14^th to the 17^th holes, as he shared the top spot in the 13-to-15 division with Ryan McQuarrie Jr. of Collegeville, each signing for a 3-over 73.

   Burkhart also made birdies at the sixth and 11^th holes and had six pars on his scorecard. McQuarrie had back-to-back birdies at the sixth and seventh holes and had 11 pars on his card, seven of which came on the incoming nine at Spring Hollow.

   Lawson Leeper of York has been playing some solid golf lately and continued to do so at Spring Hollow with a birdie at the 14^th hole and 10 pars as he finished in third place with a 77.

   Boyertown sophomore Chase Dillman took fourth place with a 78, Conestoga freshman Chris Sung was fifth with a 79 and Anderson Brexler of Doylestown and Liam Crowley of Wayne finished in a tie for sixth, each landing on 80.

   Charlie Barrickman of West Chester took eighth place with an 81, Michael Liu of Garnet Valley was ninth with an 83 and Quin Zuegner of New Hope and Lucas Kozak of Phoenixville rounded out the top 10 in the 13-to-15 division as they finished in a tie for 10^th place, each recording an 84.

   The best score among the girls emerged from the 13-to-15 division as Makayla Stone of Garnet Valley had nine pars on her scorecard to claim a Philly Junior Tour victory with an 82.

   Corinne McReynolds of Wayne had seven pars on her card as she earned runnerup honors with an 88. Kasey O’Brien of Linwood, N.J. had four pars on her card as she finished in third place with a 90.

   Allison Brown of Audubon rounded out the field in the 13-to-15 division as she finished in fourth place with a 128.

   Jiayin Ou of Pottstown made a birdie on the 15^th hole and had three pars on her scorecard as she claimed a victory in the 16-to-18 division with an 86. It was the fifth win of the 2022 season for Ou.

   Isabella Magno of Delran, N.J. had six pars on her card as she finished two shots behind Ou in second place with an 88.

   Camryn Bazulis of Oaklyn, N.J. rounded out the field in the 13-to-15 division as she made a birdie on the 13^th hole and had three pars on her card to finish in third place with a 95.

   There were two familiar names at the top of the field of nine-holers as Dane Mohap of Nazareth and Ian Rotto of Kennett Square shared first place, each carding a 1-over 36.

   Mohap made an eagle on the par-5 sixth hole and had five pars on his scorecard as he won for the 23^rd time this season. Rotto made a birdie on the sixth hole and had five pars on his card as he won for the 13^th time this season.

   Villanova’s Team Sokol accounted for the tie for third place as Henry Sokol had four pars on his card and Jack Sokol had three pars on his card, each ending up with a 42.

   Winston Chew of Exton and Gavin Kozak, another member of Phoenixville’s Team Kozak, finished in a tie for fifth place, each signing for a 46. Kieran Shaw of Downingtown and Isabelle Studli of Fairfield shared seventh place, each registering a 47.

   Megan Choi of Penn Valley took ninth place with a 50 and Steven Musacchio of Glenmoore and Torrin Denton of Mullica Hill, N.J. rounded out the top 10 in the coed 12-and-under division as they finished in a tie for 10^th place, each carding a 52.