Radnor senior Brynn Walker, the reigning Daily Times Player of the Year, put
together three solid rounds at Saucon Valley Country Club’s Weyhill Course to
finish second in a strong girls field in the PDQ/Philadelphia Runner Junior, an American Junior Golf Association event
that concluded Wednesday.
Walker had rounds of 73, 75 and 74 for a 54-hole total of
6-over 222. She never really threatened the winner, Japan’s Karen Miyomoto, who
blitzed the tough Weyhill layout by bookending a 1-under 71 with a pair of
3-under 69s, her three subpar rounds giving her a 7-under 209 total.
Walker, who is headed to North Carolina, did earn
low-Pennsylvania and low-District One honors over Madelein Herr, Walker’s
partner in a memorable run to the semifinals of the inaugural U.S. Women’s
Amateur Four-Ball Championship in Oregon in May. Herr, a Council Rock North
senior and Penn St. commit, had rounds of 76, 77 and 73 to finish third at
10-over 226.
Walker’s Radnor teammate, junior Gabby Kim, finished eighth
with rounds of 75, 81 and 83 for a 239 total. Agnes Irwin sophomore Kaitlyn Lees finished 16th
with rounds of 83, 88 and 80 for a 251 total and Notre Dame sophomore Olivia
Traynor, the reigning Inter-Ac League
champion, finished 19th with rounds of 84, 89 and 85 for a 258
total.
Walker’s return to the Radnor lineup might be delayed again
next week as, for the second time in three years, she’ll represent Pennsylvania
in the USGA’s Women’s State Team Championship, which gets under way Thursday at
Dalhousie Golf Club in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
And Walker won’t be the only PIAA champion or Daily Times Player of the Year on the
team as she will be joined by Aurora Kan, the 2010 PIAA champion and a three-time
Daily Times Player of the Year at
Chichester who is coming off an outstanding career at Purdue. The third member
of the team is Ellen Ceresko, a two-time Pennsylvania Women’s Amateur champion
who is coming off an outstanding career at Penn St.
The trio will be captained by Amy Kennedy, who has been a
dominant amateur player in York County.
Among the boys at the Runner Junior at Saucon Valley,
Aronimink Golf Club’s Matthew Davis, a sophomore at Malvern Prep, finished in a
tie for 15th with rounds of 76, 76 and 74 for a 224 total.
The title went to Ben Smith of Novi, Mich. who had rounds of
71, 70 and 73 for a 2-under 214 total.
Haverford School All-Delco Max Siegfried, also a member at
Aronimink, had rounds of 75, 80 and 76 to finish in a tie for 30th at 231. He was joined at that figure by
Merion Golf Club’s Peter Bradbeer, a senior at Friends’ Central who had rounds
of 75, 81 and 75.
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