Debusschere rides fast start to Junior Tour victory at The Bucks Club

    Strath Haven senior Jackson Debusschere carded a 4-over-par 74 to capture the top spot in the 16-to-18 division in a Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour stop at The Bucks Club in Jamison, Bucks County Saturday.

   It looks like Debusschere and the rest of the Central League are about to embark on a shortened fall season with the District One Championship a little more than a week away. Jackson Debusschere and younger brother Tyler, who finished seventh in the 13-to-15 division Saturday at The Bucks Club, helped the Panthers win the first Central League crown in program history a year ago.

   Strath Haven then went on to claim the first District One team crown in program history at Turtle Creek Golf Club.

   Jackson Debusschere got off to a fast start with birdies on three of the first five holes after morning rain let up and the Junior Tour field got out on the 6,210-yard, par-70 Bucks Club layout. It was Jackson Debusschere’s first Junior Tour win the wraparound 2020-2021 season.

   Connor Toussaint of Lansdale finished strong with two birdies and four pars in his final nine holes to earn runnerup honors with a 6-over 76 that left him two shots behind Jackson Debusschere.

   Radnor junior Chase Stephano had two birdies as he finished a shot behind Toussaint in third place with a 77. Logan Hay of Bordentown, N.J. was another shot behind Stephano in fourth place with a 78.

   Central Bucks South’s Will Locovare and Pennridge senior Blake Stewart shared fifth place, each signing for a 79.

   John Romeo of Ambler took seventh place with an 83, Owen Wisner of Reading was eighth with an 86, Stephen Cain of Yardley was ninth with an 87 and Corey Anderson of Media rounded out the top 10 as he finished alone in 10^th place with an 89.

   John Lee, playing close to his Jamison home, had two birdies, one on each nine at The Bucks Club, to finish atop the leaderboard in the 13-to-15 division with a 5-over 75.

   Ethan Rosenstein of Plymouth Meeting and Zachary Antao of Chadds Ford shared runnerup honors as each carded a 78. Rosenstein had a run of seven straight pars on his scorecard while Antao registered a pair of birdies in his round.

   Sachin Blake of Berwyn finished alone in fourth place with a 79 and Noah Moelter of Doylestown and Ethan Martin of North Wales ended up in a tie for fifth place, each posting an 80.

   Tyler Debusschere of Wallingford’s Team Debusschere and a sophomore at Strath Haven, carded an 82 to earn his seventh-place finish.

   Matthew Sanderson of Newtown took eighth place with an 83 and Aiden Farkas of Ardmore and Noah Wallace of Elkton, Md. rounded out the top 10 as they finished in a tie for ninth with an 84.

   Ashley Ea of Perkasie birdied the 126-yard, par-3 16^th hole on her way to a solid 79 that earned her a victory in the girls 16-to-18 division.

   Meredith Beyer of Avondale had seven pars on her scorecard as she was the runnerup with an 87. Nina Harris of Furlong had two pars on the front nine as she took third place with a 103.

   Alexandra Engart of Harleysville had six pars, three on each side at The Bucks Club, to claim a win in the 13-to-15 division with an 87. Taryn Shine of Perkasie had four pars as she finished just two shots behind Engart in second place with an 89.

   Evelyn Lauerman of North Wales also had four pars in her round of 94 that enabled her to finish in third place. Emily Mayo of Boothwyn took fourth place with a 99 and Makayla Stone of Garnet Valley rounded out the 13-to-15 field as she was fifth with a 100.

   Trevor Sieben of Medford, N.J. birdied two of the first four holes as he bested the field of nine-holers with a 2-over 38.

   Lawson Leeper of York and Jason Mack of Delaware Water Gap shared runnerup honors, each posting a solid 5-over 41. Leeper, who always seems to be near the top of the leaderboard in the coed 12-and-under division, had two birdies. Mack had four pars on his scorecard.

   Anthony Proud of Stroudsburg took fourth place with a 42 and Tyler Whitney of Cherry Hill, N.J. and Dariel Rozinsky of Newtown shared fifth place, each registering a 44.

   Walter Plimpton of Lawrenceville, N.J. and Quin Zuegner of New Hope finished in a tie for seventh place, each carding a 45. Alexander Gibbs of East Norriton finished alone in ninth place with a 46.

   Rounding out the top 10 in a very competitive coed 12-and-under group were three players – Logan Cassidy of Newtown, Avery O’Neill of Romansville and Declan Conner of Swarthmore – who finished in a tie for 10^th place, each signing for a 47.