Aronimink Golf Club, a course legendary architect Donald
Ross considered one of his masterpieces, hosted a PGA Tour event when the 2010
and 2011 AT&T National was staged there and the tour will return in 2018
for the BMW Championship, a FedEx Cup playoff event.
And that makes the 2-under-par 68 that Haverford School
senior Davis Rosato fired there to win the Bert Linton Invitational Thursday
pretty special. It makes Rosato the Inter-Ac League’s individual champion and
maybe takes a little of the sting out of the near miss for the Fords in the
Inter-Ac team chase.
Rosato’s round included six birdies and he posted a
remarkable 31 on the challenging back nine at Aronimink.
Rosato is Haverford School’s first Inter-Ac individual
champion since Cole Berman won the second of his back-to-back Bert Linton
Invitational titles in 2012.
It’s always special to win the Bert Linton because you’re
beating such a quality field. Rosato finished five shots ahead of three players
tied for second at 3-over 73.
The ties were broken with a match of cards and runnerup
honors went to Malvern Prep sophomore John Updike, a product of the Aronimink
junior program and the reigning Pennsylvania Junior Boys’ champion.
Third place went to Episcopal Academy junior Cole Kemmerer,
a member at Waynesborough Country Club, a few miles up Route 252 from
Aronimink. Kemmerer played a big part in the Churchmen’s drive to the Inter-Ac
team crown. Fourth place went to Rosato’s Haverford School teammate Sam Walker,
a sophomore.
Malvern Prep junior Matt Davis, another product of the
Aronimink junior program, finished alone in fifth place with a 4-over 74.
Malvern Prep senior Nick Miller was another shot back in sixth place at 75.
Penn Charter junior Brian Isztwan, who was the top player in
the Inter-Ac’s points system during the six regular-season mini-tournaments,
finished in a tie for seventh with a 76. Isztwan won the Bert Linton as a
freshman two years ago.
Isztwan was joined at that figure by Episcopal Academy
freshman Case Hummer, who seems to save his best stuff for this event. A
coaches pick into the event a year ago at Merion Golf Club’s historic East Course,
Hummer was the runnerup to Malvern Prep’s Marty McGuckin. Hummer, another
Aronimink member, was again a coaches pick this year and earned a share of seventh
place with Isztwan.
Ian Diaz of Springside Chestnut Hill Academy finished alone
in ninth place with a 77.
Three Haverford School players – David Hurly, Cal Buonocore
and Mac Costin – finished in a tie for 10th, each carding a 78.
Episcopal Academy junior Jon Nolan Perry, who was second
behind Isztwan in the regular-season points standings, led a group of three
players tied for 13th at 80. He was joined at that figure by Malvern
Prep senior Gavin Sims and Penn Charter junior Noah Schwartz.
Haverford School sophomore Peter Garno was alone in 16th
place with an 81.
Episcopal teammates Michael Zeng, a sophomore, and Ashton
Dunn, a junior, were among four players tied for 17th at 82. Also
carding 82s were Penn Charter’s Joey Centeno and Malvern Prep’s Andrew Curran.
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