If you were going to sneak down to Florida to kick the rust
off your golf game, last weekend, with temperatures unable to make it out of
the teens around here, was the perfect time to do it.
That’s what Radnor senior Brynn Walker did. She capped her brilliant
scholastic career last fall by winning a second straight PIAA Class AAA
individual title and leading the Raiders to state team title in Class AAA two
days later.
Walker, who is headed for North Carolina, teed it up in the
American Junior Golf Association’s ANNIKA Invitational, which got under way
Saturday at the 6,359-yard, par-72 Watson Course at the Reunion Resort in
Reunion, Fla. Walker struggled in the middle round with an 80, but sandwiched
that with a 4-over 76 in Saturday’s opening round and a solid 2-over 74 in
Monday’s final round for a 54-hole total of 230 that left her in a tie for 41st.
Jaravee Boonchant of Thailand fired a sparkling 7-under 65
in the final round to blow past the rest of the field and take the title with a
6-under 210 total. The Duke commit finished six shots clear of Selena Costabile
(73-74-69) and Elizabeth Wang (74-73-69), who shared second at even-par 216.
Youngin Chun of Cedar Park, Texas had a three-shot lead
going into the final round after going 68, 73 in the first two rounds, but
slipped to a 76 in the final round to finish fourth at 2-over 218.
Walker is trying to keep her game sharp so she’ll be ready
to go when she and partner Madelein Herr, the District One champion from
Council Rock North, reprise their partnership for the 2016 U.S. Women’s Amateur
Four-Ball Championship, which will be played May 21-25 at the Streamsong
Resort’s Blue Course in Streamsong, Fla.
In the inaugural edition of the event last spring on the
Pacific Dunes Course at the Bandon Dunes Resort in Bandon, Ore., Walker and
Herr, a pair of high school juniors at the time, stormed their way to the
semifinals, getting some air time on Fox Sports’ first try at televised golf
after the network had gained the USGA broadcast rights.
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