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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Brinker closing in on match-play berth in U.S. Girls' Junior at Poppy Hills


   They had fog on the West Coast and a line of thunderstorms on the East Coast that held up the works, but the U.S. Girls’ Junior and the U.S. Junior Amateur championships marched on. The girls, playing on just one course at Poppy Hills Golf Course in Pebble Beach, Calif., couldn’t quite finish while the guys, with the luxury of two courses at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, N.J. completed qualifying for match play with the exception of a good, old-fashioned 8-for-3 playoff for the final three tickets into match play.

   There is still some golf to be played, but Archmere Academy junior Phoebe Brinker appears to be in very good shape to make match play in the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship  at Poppy Hills.
   I was wondering when the Phoebe Brinker who finished second in the individual scoring and led Delaware to a second-place finish in the final edition of the USGA Women’s State Team Championship at The Club at Las Campanas’ Sunrise Course in Santa Fe, N.M. last fall was going to show up this year and it’s happening at Poppy Hills.
   Brinker opened with a 2-over-par 73 over the 6,195-yard, par-71 Poppy Hills layout and was 2-over through nine holes in her second round when darkness suspended play for the day. At 4-over, Brinker is tied for 33rd. Barring a total collapse, Brinker should earn a spot in match play.
   And based on her performance at Las Campanas, Brinker doesn’t seem like the kind of player who can’t handle a big moment. She birdied the fourth hole Tuesday before making a bogey at the sixth and a double bogey at the seventh to fall back to 2-over for her round.
   Valery Plata, the Colombian who was the medalist in the Golf Association of Philadelphia-administered local qualifier at the Steel Club, added a 4-over 75 to her opening-round 70 and stands in the group tied for 25th. She’ll make the match-play bracket.
   Ami Gianchandani, the recent Pingry School graduate who made an amazing run to the quarterfinals in last year’s U.S. Girls’ Junior at Boone Valley Golf Club in Augusta, Mo., has some work to do if she plans to make it to match play.
   The Yale-bound Gianchandani opened with a 4-over 75 Monday and was 6-over through 12 holes Tuesday when play was called for the day. At 10-over, Gianchandani is tied for 81st and on the outside looking in in her bid to make the top 64. She has six holes to try to make something happen.
   Gianchandani’s Pingry School teammate, Christine Shao, will not make match play after rounds of 80 and 82. Shao, who still has a year left at Pingry, was the runnerup to Plata in the qualifier at the Steel Club.
   Sydney Yermish, the 12-year-old from Rolling Green Golf Club, had a rough introduction to the big time of junior golf. She added an 87 Tuesday to her opening-round 86 and finished near the bottom of the leaderboard at 173.
   But, as I chronicled in a Monday post, Yermish was playing with the nine-holers on the Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour this time last year.
   She was getting killed out there Tuesday. And you know what? She birdied the 13th, made two pars and two bogeys the rest of the way to go 1-over for her last six and card a 39 on the back nine. That’s showing some toughness.
   And the experience Yermish gained battling her way around a tough golf course set up by the USGA to challenge the best junior golfers in the world will do nothing but move her forward.
   The leader in the clubhouse in the battle for medalist honors is the No. 9 player in the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking, one Lucy Li, the 15-year-old phenom from Redwood Shores, Calif.
   After a routinely brilliant 9-under 62 in Monday’s opening round, Li could only manage four birdies against two bogeys in a 2-under 69 that left her at 11-under 131. If she does hold on to win medalist honors, it will be the second year in a row she's led the way in qualifying.
   Li’s fellow Californian, 16-year-old Lealimi Noh of Concord, has a lot of golf to play and after what she did in winning the Girls Junior PGA Championship at Kearney Hill Golf Links in Lexington, Ky. last week, you have to give her a shot to catch Li.
   Noh went a remarkable 24-under par at Kearney Hill. After opening with a 66 at Poppy Hills Monday, Noh was 2-under through six holes when darkness fell over Pebble Beach Tuesday. The girl has been on quite a roll and she trails Li by four with 12 holes to play.
   On the East Coast, Pennsylvania’s best junior player over the last two years, Franklin Regional senior Palmer Jackson, earned a ticket to match play as he added a 1-over 71 on Baltusrol’s Lower Course to the 2-over 73 he posted on the Upper Course Monday for a 3-over 144 total that left him in the group tied for 32nd.
   Jackson, who plays out of Hannastown Golf Club in Greensburg, was the medalist in a GAP-administered local qualifier at Carlisle Country Club. He chose not to defend the Pennsylvania Junior Boys’ crown he won last year and he finished tied for second in the PIAA Class AAA Championship at the Heritage Hills Golf Resort last fall.
   Jackson will take on Clemson-bound Jacob Bridgeman of Inman, S.C. in an opening-round match at 8 a.m. Wednesday. Match play will be contested on the Upper Course.
   Two matches later at 8:20 a.m., Jolo Timothy Magcalyo of the Philippines, the runnerup to Jackson in the qualifier at Carlisle, will take on Australian Jediah Morgan.
   Magcalyo decided to spend the summer getting a taste of the junior competition in the United States. He tuned up for the summer with some really strong showings in Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour events this spring.
   Magcalyo backed up a 1-under 69 at the Lower Course Monday with a 1-over 72 at the Upper Course and finished tied for 16th at even-par 141. I am really curious to see where this is headed for this kid, who is clearly a talent.
   Brian Isztwan, the best player in the Inter-Ac League in his last two seasons at Penn Charter, and his two fellow co-medalists at another GAP-administered qualifier at the Union League National Golf Club in Swainton, N.J. saw their U.S. Junior Amateur bids come to an end Tuesday.
   The Harvard-bound Isztwan, who plays out of Huntingdon Valley Country Club, added a 7-over 78 at the Upper Course Tuesday to his opening round of 6-over 76 on the Lower Course for a 13-over 154 total. The eight players vying for the final three spots in match play all landed at 7-over 148.
   I spent a long day – and a little of the next when weather halted play after 33 holes – caddying for Isztwan in last year’s Christman Cup at Stonewall’s North Course. He’s a talented, classy kid who will be a nice addition to the Harvard golf program.
   Central Bucks West senior Luca Jezzeny, who plays out of The Bucks Club and Doylestown Country Club, was a little closer to the match-play cutline as he added a solid 5-over 75 on the Lower Course to the 5-over 76 he posted Monday at the Upper Course for a 10-over 151 total.
   The third member of the trio that all matched par at Union League National to get to Baltusrol, St. John’s-bound Tyler Gerbavsits of Huntingdon, N.Y., added a 79 at the Lower Course to the 82 he carded at the Upper Course for a 161 total.
   Medalist honors went to Kelly Chinn, a 15-year-old out of Langley High School in McLean, Va., who birdied five of his last six holes to card a 3-under 67 over the Lower Course. Chinn had opened with a 5-under 66 at the Upper Course Monday and finished with an 8-under 133 total.
   Ricky Castillo, a 17-year-old from Yorba Linda, Calif., and 16-year-old Australian Karl Vilips shared second place, two shots behind Chinn at 6-under 135.
   Castillo carded a 2-under 68 at the Lower Course after opening up with a 4-under 67 at the Upper Course Monday. Castillo reached the round-of-16 in last year’s U.S. Junior Amateur at Flint Hills National  Golf Club in Andover, Kan. and won a match in the U.S. Amateur at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif. last summer.
   Vilips had matched Chinn’s opening-round 66 at the Upper Course and added a 1-under 69 at the Lower Course Tuesday.






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