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Monday, August 20, 2018

Thomas, Jones prevail in playoffs to claim titles in Junior Tour Championship


   The Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour wrapped up the 2017-’18 campaign Monday with the Junior Tour Championship and Win Thomas of Unionville and Lauren Jones of Newtown Square emerged as the overall winners, each prevailing in a playoff at Old York Road Country Club in Spring House.
   Pretty sure the Junior Tour Championship was originally scheduled for last Monday, but was postponed by the torrential rains that hit the entire region.
   The Junior Tour had its usual division breakdowns, but also crowned overall winners for the boys and girls in the 13-to-18 age group and the two winners actually came out of the younger 13-to-15 divisions.
   Thomas, an eighth-grader at Upland Country Day School, carded a 6-over-par 77 over an Old York Road layout that measured 6,366 yards for the guys. That left him tied with another 13-to-15 player, James Dalzell of Linwood,  N.J. and Finian McGarry of Haddonfield, N.J., who topped the 16-to-18 division with his 77.
   Thomas claimed the overall title on the second hole of a playoff. That also gave him the top spot in the 13-to-15 division over Dalzell. Garnet Valley junior Jacob Sokalsky, who has been solid all summer, finished third with a 79, which also left him in a five-way tie for fifth with a quartet of 16-to-18 players in the overall scoring.
   McGarry had two birdies, one on each side, in his 77 that earned him a spot in the playoff for the overall  title. Michael Festa of Ambler had a solid 2-over 37 on the front nine at Old York Road on his way to a 78 that earned him runnerup honors in the 16-to-18 division and left him alone in fourth place in the overall scoring.
   Finishing tied for third in the 16-to-18 division and tied for fifth with Sokalsky in the overall scoring was the foursome of Ryan Kennedy of Wayne, Nicholas Schnur of Lafayette Hill, Stephen Lorenzo of Lower Gwynedd and Ryan D’Ariano of West Chester.
   It also took a playoff to decide the overall winner among the girls as Jones, who led Episcopal Academy to the Inter-Ac League title as a freshman this spring, and 16-to-18 division winner Isabella McCloskey of Princeton Junction, N.J. each carded an 83 over an Old York Road layout that measured 5,502 yards for the gals.
   Jones, who finished third in the Inter-Ac’s individual championship at Gulph Mills Golf Club, opened her round with a birdie and got past McCloskey in the playoff to take the overall title.
   Lily Yang of West Chester finished a shot behind Jones to take runnerup honors in the 13-to-15 division and third in the overall scoring. Amanda Gerish of Hummelstown finished third in the division and fifth overall with an 86.
   McCloskey had five straight pars in the middle of her round to earn the top spot in the 16-to-18 division. Casey Oppenheimer of Conshohocken was the runnerup to McCloskey in the division and fourth overall with an 85 that was highlighted by a birdie at the third hole.
   Oppenheimer, who plays out of Whitemarsh Valley Country Club, defeated Jones, a Merion Golf Club member, in the final to repeat as the winner of the Women’s Golf Association of Philadelphia’s Junior Girls’ Championship earlier this summer at West Chester Country Club.
   Abigail Han of Hummelstown finished third in the division with a 90.
   Nicholas Gross of Downingtown capped a dominant summer among the nine-holers with a sparkling even-par 35 that gave him the top spot in the division once again. Gross made birdies on the 10th and 15th holes.
   Ajeet Bagga of Blue Bell was the runnerup, four shots behind Gross with a 39. Bagga opened his round by rattling off six straight pars.
   Daniel Shin of Horsham, George Deming of Philadelphia and Rhianna Gooneratne of the golfing Gooneratnes of Plymouth Meeting shared third place, each posting a solid 42.
   The Junior Tour will start tabulating the winners of The Graham Company Player of the Year awards and the Sam Penecale Scoring Average Leaders for the various age groups and I should be able to put together a post when all that information is finalized.
   But even if you were not a Player of the Year, are you a better player than you were a year ago when the wraparound 2017-’18 campaign began? The answer in the vast majority of cases is a resounding yes.
   Becoming a better player and learning how to play the game the right way are what the Junior Tour is all about. And The Graham Company, the Junior Tour’s title sponsor, deserves plenty of credit for getting youngsters started on a game many of them will still be playing 50 years from now.
   The end of the season is also a good time to thank the parents who drive you all over the tri-state region in pursuit of a better golf game. It's a labor or love for them, but it is a lot of driving.
   The high school season is already under way and the Junior Tour will open the 2018-’19 season with its series of weekend fall events. Hopefully, I can make it out to some of the stops on the PIAA and Inter-Ac League trails this fall.





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