Scott Jaster was a man of few words while earning All-Delco
honors three times during his illustrious career at The Haverford School. He
let his golf clubs do the talking for him on the course.
A member of a strong freshman class at Dartmouth that
included former Inter-Ac League rival Sean Fahey of Episcopal Academy, Jaster
had his moments in his rookie year.
But in classic Scott Jaster fashion, he saved his best for
when it mattered most.
At last month’s Ivy League Tournament, Jaster opened with a
sparkling even-par 70 over Baltursol Golf Club’s 6,996-yard Lower Course
layout, which has been the site of several U.S. Opens and the 2005 PGA
Championship.
Jaster added rounds of 75 and 77 for a 12-over 222 that
landed him in eighth place and helped the Big Green finish sixth at 913. The
final round was a battle as Jaster offset four bogeys and a double bogey with a
birdie on the outward nine. He settled down to par the first seven holes on the
back before bogeys at the final two holes left him with a 77.
Jaster’s big finish earned him a spot on the all-Ivy League
second team.
The future is bright for Dartmouth as Jaster led a trio of
freshmen as the Big Green’s top finishers. Jeffrey Lang (78-76-76—230) finished
in a tie for 21st and Fahey (74-79-78—231) was another shot back of
Lang in a tie for 24th. Junior Charlie Edler had the Big Green’s
best score of the final round as he posted a 75 to go with earlier rounds of 77
and 80 for a 235 total that left him in a tie for 32nd.
Dartmouth had rounds of 299, 308 and 306 for a 913 total.
Jaster, however, was not the low Haverford School finisher
in the field. Brown senior Nelson Hargrove took that honor as he played
brilliantly with rounds of 70, 72 and 73 for a 5-over 215 total that left him
in a tie for first with Harvard’s Theodore Lederhausen (72-72-71).
A par by Lederhausen on the first hole of a playoff gave him
the title. But it was a spectacular finish to his career at Brown for Hargrove,
who made the all-Ivy first team.
Hargrove’s heroics led Brown to a fifth-place finish in the
team standings at 908, five shots better than Dartmouth.
Greg Jarmas, the 2009 PIAA runnerup as a senior at Lower
Merion, capped off his career at Princeton with a brilliant 1-under 69 in the
final round. Combined with earlier rounds of 76 and 78, Jarmas finished in a
tie for ninth at 223. He joined Jaster on the all-Ivy second team.
Jarmas’ final round enabled the Tigers to jump up three
places and finish fourth at 905, three shots ahead of Brown.
Columbia, led by Brandon Jowers (74-69-75—218, fourth) and Harrison
Shih (77-70-73—220, tied for fifth) ran away with the team title at 881. Yale
was 12 shots back in second at 893 and Lederhausen and Harvard were third at
895.
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