Strath Haven sophomore Tyler Debusschere played in a lot of Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour events last fall when various issues concerning the coronavirus pandemic conspired to limit the scholastic golf season, ultimately denying Central League players from competing in the PIAA’s postseason.
Tyler Debusschere made the most of his one opportunity to shine on the scholastic scene as he finished fourth when the Central League finally put together a championship at Downingtown Country Club after the PIAA Championship was already in the books and teamed with older brother Jackson and the rest of the Panthers to capture the team crown. The Central League crowned both the dual-match and tournament winners as champions for 2020.
Tyler Debusschere found that groove he was in last fall in a Mother’s Day stop on the Philly Junior Tour at Back Creek Golf Club in Middletown, Del., carding the best score of the day among the guys, a 2-over-par 73, to finish atop the 13-to-15 leaderboard.
Tyler Debusschere made a birdie at the ninth hole and then went back-to-back with birdies on the 15th and 16th holes in securing the win. Tyler Debusschere also had 10 pars on his scorecard over the 6,286-yard, par-71 Back Creek layout.
Travis Robertson of Fort Washington birdied the 11th hole and had 12 pars, including five straight to finish his round, as he earned runnerup honors behind Tyler Debusschere with a 5-over 76. Shaun Mazzalupi of Wayne closed out his round with back-to-back birdies at the 17th and 18th holes as he finished in third place among the younger guys with an 82.
Aiden Farkas of Ardmore took fourth place with an 85 and Nick Linkchorst of Glen Mills and Paul Reilly of West Creek, N.J. shared fifth, each signing for an 86.
Noah Richardson of Malvern ended up in seventh place with an 87, Davis Fairbanks of Swarthmore was eighth with an an 88, Jacob Gabbard of Lewes, Del. was ninth with a 90 and Andrew Zieg of Newtown Square rounded out the top 10 in the 13-to-15 division as he ended up alone in 10th place with a 93.
Downingtown East's Dylan Gute is making the most of the spring of his senior year by getting in some swings on the Philly Junior Tour and he made birdies at the fifth and sixth holes during an even-par tour of Back Creek’s outgoing nine as he claimed a victory in the 16-to-18 division with a 5-over 76. Gute also had nine pars on his scorecard.
Three players – Jack Orr of Medford, N.J., Timothy Peters of State College and Brady Manning of Downingtown – shared runnerup honors, each landing on 7-over 78, two shots behind Gute. Orr birdied the second hole and had 11 pars on his card, Peters birdied the fifth hole and had 10 pars and Manning’s steady round featured 11 pars.
Alexander McCauley of Maple Glen and Jack Bateman of Pottstown finished in a tie for fifth place, each posting a 79. Central Bucks South senior Will Locovare was alone in seventh place with an 83.
Garnet Valley junior Nick Woods and Aaron Skii of West Chester finished in a tie for eighth place, each registering an 83. Joshua Murphy of Newtown Square rounded out the top 10 in the 16-to-18 division as he finished alone in 10th place with an 86.
Curstan Bunch of Wilmington, Del. and Silvana Gonzalez of Exton had a close battle for the top spot in the girls 16-to-18 division with Bunch prevailing by a shot with her 84. Bunch made a birdie on the par-4 seventh hole and had seven pars, six of them on Back Creek’s incoming nine.
Gonzalez was the only other competitor among the older girls and she gave Bunch a fight before settling for runnerup honors with an 85 that included a birdie on the par-3 13th hole and seven pars.
Reagan Garnsey of Camden-Wyoming, Del. had six pars as she finished atop the 13-to-15 division leaderboard with an 89. Makayla Stone of Garnet Valley got off to a good start with a par on the first hole as she earned runnerup honors with a 98.
Sophia DeSantis of Glen Mills made pars on the first two holes as she finished in third place with a 100. Kaitlynne Simmons of Townsend, Del. and Emily Mayo of Boothwyn finished in a tie for fourth place, each ending up a shot behind DeSantis with a 101.
Rounding out the 13-to-15 division field was Karina Serio of Colora, Md. and she finished in sixth place with a 106.
Trevor Sieben of Medford, N.J. had five pars on his scorecard as he bested a large field of 28 nine-holers with a 4-over 39. Wyatt Underwood of Telford also had five pars as he finished a shot behind Sieben in second place with a 40. Quinten Joiner of Millington, Md. had five pars, including three straight to finish his round, as he ended up a shot behind Underwood in third place with a 41.
Four players landed in a tie for fourth place with a 7-over 42, including Tyler Whitney of Cherry Hill, N.J., Benjamin Mayer of Garnet Valley, Jack Luterman of Ardmore and Katherine Liu of Moorestown, N.J.
Lawson Leeper of York took eighth place with a 43 and Ian Rotto of Kennett Square and Carson Jakuc of Newtown Square rounded out the top 10 in the coed 12-and-under division as they finished in a tie for ninth place, each signing for a 44.
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