I’ll get back to the Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour events from the last couple of weeks, but I figured I’d jump ahead and report the results from Monday’s 45th Junior Tour Championship …
Ian Larsen, who will be joining the team for reigning District One Class AAA champion Downingtown West in the coming weeks, carded a strong 1-under-par 69 at the challenging Chester Valley Golf Club in East Whiteland to capture the overall title in the Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour Championship.
The overall scoring was for players ages 13 to 18 and the Philly Junior Tour broke out its usual 16-to-18 and 13-to-15 divisions. Larsen of Glenmoore emerged from the younger 13-to-15 division to capture the overall crown.
Larsen made birdies at the third, seventh, 11th and 14th holes and had 11 pars on his scorecard. Seven of those pars came on the outgoing nine at Chester Valley, which, along with the birdies at the third and seventh holes, gave Larsen a 2-under 33 on the front side.
In the early days of the Senior Tour, now known as PGA Tour Champions, Chester Valley hosted a regular stop for several years and proved to be a tough test for the over-50 set. Even though the winning total was usually around 4- or 5-under, the senior pros routinely raved about the Chester Valley layout.
Michael Keller of Chadds Ford was the runnerup in the 13-to-15 division and finished in a tie for sixth place in the overall scoring as he had 14 pars on his card, eight of them on the front nine, in a steady 5-over 75.
Paul Reilly of West Creek, N.J. and Conestoga sophomore Chris Sung finished a shot behind Keller in a tie for third place, each carding a 76. Sung was unavailable for a playoff, so the tiebreaker for third place went to Reilly. Reilly and Sung were the last two players from the 13-to-15 division to crack the top 10 in the overall scoring as they finished among a group of four players tied for 10th place.
Reilly made a birdie on the seventh hole and had 12 pars on his card and Sung made a birdie at 16 and had 10 pars on his card.
Grant Burkhart of Kennett Square and Keegan Redmond of Hummelstown finished in a tie for fifth place among the younger guys, each posting a 79, and Jackson Lane of Cinnaminson, N.J. and Colby Komancheck of Royersford shared seventh, each recording an 80.
Rounding out the top 10 in the 13-to-15 division was a group of four players tied for ninth place at 81 that included Ryan Sun of Morganville, N.J., Liam McFadden of Bryn Mawr, Thomas Carpenter of Bristol and Quinten Joiner of Millington, Md.
Ethan Legarda of Voorhees, N.J. also had a strong showing at Chester Valley as he finished at the top of the leaderboard in the 16-to-18 division and was the runnerup to Larsen in the overall standings with a 1-over 71.
Legarda made birdies at the fourth, 12th and 16th holes and had 11 pars on his scorecard, six of them on Chester Valley’s incoming nine as he toured the back in 1-under 34.
A couple of Marylanders, Noah Wallace of Elkton and Nathan Smith of Chestertown, finished in a tie for second place among the older guys as each registered a 2-over 72. Wallace earned second place by beating Smith on the first hole of a playoff. Wallace and Smith finished in a tie for third place in the overall scoring.
Wallace made birdies on the eighth and 17th holes and had 12 pars on his card. Smith closed out his steady round with a birdie on the 18th hole and had 14 pars on his card.
Justin Forman of Sewell, N.J. took fourth place in the 16-to-18 division and was fifth overall with a 74.
Brian Cotter of Cherry Hill, N.J., Jake Lairdieson of Newtown Square and Harrison Brown of Villanova each carded a 75 to finish a shot behind Forman in a tie for fifth place in the division and in a tie for sixth in the overall standings with Keller from the 13-to-15 division.
Patrick O’Hara of Ocean City, N.J. and Noah Moelter, who finished in a tie for sixth place in the PIAA Class AAA Championship at Penn State’s White Course as a senior at Central Bucks South last fall, finished in a tie for eighth place in the division as each posted a 76.
O’Hara and Moelter, who will join the program at Saint Joseph’s later this month, were the last members of the older group to finish in the top 10 in the overall standings as they shared 10th with Reilly and Sung from the 13-to-15 division.
Rounding out the top 10 in the 16-to-18 division was Eamon Cochran of Newtown Square as he finished in 10th place with a 77.
The overall winner among the girls was recent Spring-Ford graduate Nicole Yun as she made a birdie on the fourth hole and had 11 pars on her scorecard on her way to a solid 5-over 75.
Yun, who will join the program at Bucknell later this month, also claimed the top spot in the 16-to-18 division.
Sabrina Swope, a senior at Neshaminy, was the runnerup among the older girls and finished in fifth place overall with an 88. Swope had five pars on her card, four of them on Chester Valley’s incoming nine.
West Chester Rustin senior Sophia DeSantis made a birdie on the third hole and had five pars on her card as she finished in third place in the division and sixth overall with a 90.
Rounding out the field in the 16-to-18 division was Carly Kuminka of Mickleton, N.J. as she finished in fourth place with a 100. Kuminka rounded out the top 10 in the overall standings as she finished alone in 10th place.
It was a tight battle for the top spot in the 13-to-15 division between two of the region’s rising stars as Meredith Finger, the runnerup in the Delaware state championship as a freshman at Archmere Academy, edged Kiersten Bodge, the runnerup in the Inter-Ac League individual championship for the second straight spring as an eighth-grader at Notre Dame, by three shots.
Finger, winner of the Delaware junior girls crown this summer, made a birdie on the fifth hole and had 12 pars on her scorecard on her way to a 78. Bodge had 10 pars on her card in a steady 81 that gave her runnerup honors among the younger girls.
Finger and Bodge finished 2-3, respectively, in the overall scoring.
Jillian Burks, who will join the program at Conestoga in a couple of weeks, made a birdie on the 10th hole and had seven pars on her card as she finished in third place in the 13-to-15 division and fourth overall with an 87.
Mucai Klein of Moorestown, N.J. took fourth place in the division and was seventh overall with a 92, Saloni Patel of Collegeville was fifth in the division and eighth overall with a 93 and Freja Jensen of Solebury was sixth in the division and was the last member of the division to crack the top 10 in the overall scoring, finishing ninth with a 95.
Emma Gangemi of Downingtown rounded out the field in the 13-to-15 division as she finished in seventh place with a 118.
Rayan Shah of Newtown made birdies at the second and fifth holes and had four pars on his scorecard as he bested a typically competitive field of nine-holers with a 3-over 38.
William Quartermain of Bryn Mawr edged Shah by a shot in what was billed as the coed 12-and-under division Junior Tour Championship a couple of weeks ago at McCall Golf Club. Quartermain was Shah’s closest pursuer at Chester Valley as made five straight pars from the third through the seventh holes to earn runnerup honors with a 5-over 40.
Henry Sokol of Villanova had four pars on his card as he finished in third place, a shot behind Quartermain, with a 41.
Henry Mysliwiec of Doylestown took fourth place with a 42, Jack Sokol, another member of Villanova’s Team Sokol, was fifth with a 43 and Logan Turner of Berwyn was sixth with a 44.
Lucas Solano of Vineland, N.J. and J.D. Sivel of Hanover shared seventh place, each posting a 45. Sivel had finished in a tie for first place with Quartermain at McCall, but lost in either a playoff or a tiebreaker.
Nathan Lobo of Collegeville took ninth place with a 46 and Max Davis of Newtown Square rounded out the top 10 in the coed 12-and-under division as he finished alone in 10th with a 47.
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