Jack Tarzy, playing close to his Medford, N.J. home, fired a
solid 1-over-par 72 Monday to capture the 16-to-18 division in a Philadelphia
Section PGA Junior Tour stop at Medford Lakes Country Club.
Tarzy matched par on the outgoing nine and had two birdies
on his scorecard as he claimed his first Junior Tour win of the season.
Carl Ernst of Mickelton, N.J. came on strong on the back
nine of the 6,141-yard, par-71 Medford Lakes layout with birdies at the 11th
hole and back-to-back at the 17th and 18th holes as he
earned runnerup honors with a 4-over 75.
A couple of Yardley guys, recent Pennsbury graduate Ethan
Finkelstein and Chris Myers, a senior with the Falcons for the upcoming season,
shared third place, each posting a 77.
Another Pennsbury senior, Ryan Rearden, and Benjamin
Griffaton of Pottstown finished in a tie for sixth place, each signing for an
82. A fourth Yardley guy among the top eight, Stephen Cain, finished alone in
eighth place with an 83.
Rounding out the top 10 were three players – Matthew Van
Istendal of Haddon Heights, N.J., Colton Murray of Sewell, N.J. and Luke Snyder
of Exton – who finished in a tie for ninth place, each carding an 84.
Matthew Normand of Lumberton, N.J. started fast with a birdie
at the first hole and had four birdies on the back nine as he finished atop the
13-to-15 division leaderboard with a 3-over 74. Jack Rosen, who came all the
way from Boca Raton, Fla. to tee it up at Medford Lakes, was the runnerup in
the division with a 4-over 75 that included a birdie on the 12th
hole.
Jack Dare of Moorestown finished in third place with a 78
that included a streak of four straight pars in the middle of his round.
Zachary Antao of Chadds Ford took fourth place with an 81.
Dante Billoni of Lancaster and Nathan Guertler of
Merchantville, N.J. shared fifth place, each landing on 83. Sachin Blake of
Berwyn took seventh place with an 86, James DeRocini of West Deptford, N.J. was
eighth with an 87 and Anthony Carson of Broomall was ninth with an 88.
Rounding out the top 10 were three players – Kendell Gordon
of Burlington Township, N.J., Tiger Li of Newtown and Joseph Fargnoli of
Mickelton, N.J. – who finished in a tie for 10th place, each
registering an 89.
Conestoga’s Sophia Brubaker, a District One Class AAA
qualifier as a sophomore last fall, had the best score of the day among the
girls at Medford Lakes, an 87 that gave her a victory in the 16-to-18 division.
Brubaker’s round included five pars and a birdie at the 18th hole to
close it out.
Emma Schotsch, who lost her junior season at Springside
Chestnut Hill Academy to the coronavirus pandemic this spring, was the runnerup
with a 99 that featured a par on the front nine and two pars on the incoming
nine.
Emma Li of Newtown’s Team Li had five pars as she fashioned
a 91 that gave her the top spot in the 13-to-15 division. Hannah Puc of
Marlton, N.J. had four pars in her round of 94 to earn runnerup honors.
Danielle Higbee of Mickelton, N.J. finished in third place
with a 98, Curstan Bunch of Wilmington, Del. was another shot behind Higbee in
fourth with a 99, Emily Mayo of Boothwyn was fifth with a 106 and Elisabeth
Kehagias, another Wilmington, Del. entry, was sixth with a 110.
Davis Conaway of West Chester has been playing some solid
golf since the Junior Tour resumed play after a coronavirus-enforced layout and
that roll continued as he had a pair of four-hole streaks of pars in a 1-over
38 that bested the field of nine-holers. It was Conaway’s sixth victory of the season
in the coed 12-and-under division.
Kiersten Bodge, another West Chester entry, had three pars
and a birdie at the sixth hole to take runnerup honors with a 3-over 40. Hank
Kancher of Philadelphia finished up with a birdie at the ninth hole to finish
in third place with a 42.
Declan Conner of Swarthmore and Jackson Lane of Cinnaminson,
N.J. shared fourth place, each posting a 46. Daniel Herzchel of Linwood, N.J.
and Anthony Primo of Marlton, N.J. finished in a tie for sixth place, each
signing for a 48.
Two more players, Paul Reilly of West Creek, N.J. and Ian Rotto
of Kennett Square, shared eighth place, each coming in at 49. Rounding out the
top 10 among the nine-holers was Alaina Carson of Broomall’s Team Carson as she
finished alone in 10th place with a 52.
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