It’s the last Saturday in March, time for spring to get here, so we can get out and play some golf.
And what did we get? A cold rain, temperatures hovering around 45. Happens a lot in March around here, but still … just awful.
So give a couple dozen junior kids credit for banging out nine holes as the Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour stop at Olde Homestead Golf Club in New Tripoli in the Lehigh Valley went off, at least partially, as scheduled.
And some youngsters learned how to get the ball in the hole somehow in terrible conditions for golf. It’s going to happen again, at some point, but the Junior Tour kids who showed up at Olde Homestead Saturday have some experience in those conditions in the bank.
And three of them broke 40, led by Ken Fernandes, a visiting player from Chappaqua, N.Y. who claimed a Junior Tour victory by finishing atop the leaderboard in the 16-to-18 division with a solid 1-over 37. Fernandes made a birdie on the third hole and had six pars on his scorecard, including four in a row from the fourth through the seventh holes.
Radnor High junior Shaun Mazzalupi, who has reached the PIAA Class AAA Championship each of last two falls, and Joshua Foreman of Middletown, Del. finished in a tie for second place, each posting a 3-over 39.
Mazzalupi also birdied the third hole and had four pars on his card. Foreman made it unanimous as he, too, made birdie at the third hole and had six pars on his card.
St. Joseph’s Prep junior Aidan Farkas, an Ardmore resident, finished alone in fourth place with a 5-over 41. Farkas, a product of the junior program at Llanerch Country Club, finished in a tie for sixth place in the PIAA Class AAA Championship at Penn State’s White Course last fall.
Jacob Dommell of Telford finished in fifth place with a 42, Joshua Teichman of Macungie was sixth with a 44, Liam Gamble of Line Lexington was seventh with a 45 and Marshall Kain of Newtown Square, who was a junior on Malvern Prep’s Inter-Ac League championship team last fall, was eighth with a 48.
Tom Biscotti of Mountain Top finished in ninth place with a 50 and Sean Marino of Lansdale rounded out the field in the 16-to-18 division as he finished in 10th place with a 51.
Kie Shaw of Wilmington, Del. didn’t miss his chance to make a birdie at the third hole and he also had a couple of pars on his scorecard as captured a Philly Junior Tour victory in the 13-to-15 division with a 6-over 42.
Yaejoon Wee of Chesterbrook had a pair of pars as he earned runnerup honors with a 47 and Joseph Solt of Kunkletown had three pars on his card as he took third place with a 48.
Winston Chew of Exton and Ryan Kelly of Harleysville finished a shot behind Solt in a tie for fourth place, each registering a 49.
Collin Schreiber, another Kunkletown entry, finished in sixth place with a 50 and Andrew Bradshaw of Moorestown, N.J. rounded out the field in the 13-to-15 division as he ended up in seventh place with a 52.
Henry Sokol of Villanova bested the field of nine-holers – they only planned to play nine anyway, so they couldn’t have been too disappointed – as he came out of the gate with pars at the first and second holes on his way to a 49.
Taimoor Naseem of Sinking Spring had two pars on his scorecard as he earned runnerup honors with a 52. Michael Lee of Center Valley made a par at the fifth hole on his way to a third-place finish with a 56.
Samuel Karas of Blue Bell rounded out the field in the coed 12-and-under division as he finished in fourth place with a 66.
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