Berman on GAP team at Williamson Cup

   There wasn’t enough room in the Golf Notebook that appeared in Saturday’s Daily Times to get in all the goings-on on the links right now.
   Oh, and if you’re counting — and I most certainly am — the countdown until the 2013 U.S. Open tees off at Merion Golf Club’s East Course in the Ardmore section of Haverford Township is 307 days.

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   Cole Berman, an All-Delco pick following his sophomore season at The Haverford School, will represent the Golf Association of Philadelphia in the Williamson Cup, a team competition which gets under way Sunday at Fieldstone G.C. in Greenville, Del.
   Berman, who captured the Inter-Ac League individual title while helping the Fords win the league team crown last fall, is part of a four-man team that will compete in the 36-hole stroke play event that features teams from 11 state and regional golf associations.
   Berman, playing out of Philadelphia Cricket Club, is leading the GAP’s Junior Player of the Year standings. He was the medalist in qualifying for the Junior Boys’ Championship. He finished tied for third in the Jock MacKenzie Memorial at Sandy Run C.C. and in a tie for second in the Christman Cup at Merion G.C.’s West Course.
   Berman’s aggregate score from the Junior Boys qualifying and the Christman Cup earned him the Harry Hammond Award that goes to the junior stroke-play champion.
   Berman will be joined by Jalen Griffin of Talamore C.C., Kevin Karmarski of Riverton C.C. and Fox Hill C.C.’s Mariano Medico, who captured the GAP Junior Boys’ titl e this summer.
   GAP finished third in the Williamson Cup a year ago at Columbia C.C. in Bethesda, Md. GAP has won the title seven times.

Kan, Sinha finish 12th

   Aurora Kan, a three-time Daily Times Player of the Year at Chichester, joined up with Purdue teammate Kishi Sinha to finish 12th at last week’s Pure Silk Women’s Collegiate Team Championship.
   Kan, the 2010 Pennsylvania Women’s Amateur and PIAA champion, is a sophomore while Sinha is a redshirt senior from India.
   In the unique format played at the 6,306-yard, par-72 Wedgewood G.&C.C. in Powell, Ohio, Kan and Sinha opened with an alternate-shot 76, fired a better-ball 68 and then posted a combined 151 for a 295 total.
   They were only nine shots back of the winners, the Tennessee pair of A.J. Newell and Erica Popson.
   Senior Paula Reto, a teammate of Kan and Sinha at Purdue, reached the quarterfinals of this week’s U.S. Women’s Amateur before falling Friday, 3 and 1, to Lydia Ko, the 15-year-old South Korean-born New Zealander who is the top-ranked women’s amateur player in the world. Reto, a native of South Africa, finished in a tie for 14th at the NCAA Tournament to help a young Boilermakers squad finish ninth in the team standings.
   Also at the Pure Silk event, the University of Delaware team of former Episcopal Academy standout Amanda Terzian and Andrea Slane finished 34th with rounds of 84, 73 and 164 for a 321 total.

Philadelphia PGA Junior Tour

   The Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour made a stop Wednesday at Meadowlands C.C. and Gabriella Kim of Wayne finished second among the nine-holers with a 39.
John Updike of Wayne finished seventh with a 43.
   In the boys 13-to-15 division, Jack Henderson of Wayne finished in a tie for fourth with an 84, Luke Nichols of Bryn Mawr finished in a tie for sixth with an 87 and Griffin Colvin of Media finished in a tie for eighth with an 88.