Andrew Rindgen of Havertown continued a strong spring of play on the Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour as he put together a solid 3-over-par 75 at a chilly Golden Pheasant Golf Club in Lumberton, N.J. to claim a victory in the 16-to-18 division and finish first in the overall scoring last Sunday.
Rindgen made back-to-back birdies on the ninth and 10th holes and had 11 pars on his scorecard, including five in a row to finish his round.
The Philly Junior Tour stop at Golden Pheasant was a Junior Golf Scoreboard (JGS) event for the boys, offering JGS points that can earn players status on some of the higher-profile junior circuits, the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) chief among them.
The Philly Junior Tour broke out its usual 16-to-18 and 13-to-15 divisions, so I’ll round them up and refer to the overall 13-to-18 JGS scoring along the way.
Enrique Altmann of Mickleton, N.J. made birdies at the fourth and 14th holes and had nine pars on his card to finish three shots behind Rindgen in second place in the 16-to-18 division and in a tie for third in the overall scoring with a 6-over 78.
The runnerup in the overall standings was Haverford School freshman Jack Luterman, an Ardmore resident, as he was two shots behind Rindgen and a shot ahead of Altmann with a 5-over 77.
Brayden Tritsch of Medford, N.J. made birdies on the first and 10th holes and had nine pars on his card as he finished in third place among the older guys and fifth in the overall scoring with a 79.
Archmere Academy sophomore Michael Liu, Jax Puskar, who helped Unionville capture the District One Class AAA team crown as a junior for the Longhorns last fall, Justin Marcus of Glenmoore and Brian Cotter of Cherry Hill, N.J. shared fourth place in the 16-to-18 division and were part of a five-way logjam tied for sixth in the overall scoring as each tallied an 80.
Brandon Carrigan of Warrington took eighth place with an 81 and Campbell Swart of Southampton, N.J. and Christopher Mark Parrish of Woolwich Township, N.J. rounded out the top 10 in the 16-to-18 division, each recording an 82.
Luterman made birdies at the first and 10th holes and had 10 pars on his scorecard on his way to the top of the leaderboard in the 13-to-15 division as he posted the second best score of the day overall with his 77.
Trebor Melendez of Vineland, N.J. had a steady round that featured 12 pars, including a run of eight straight pars from the sixth through the 13th holes, as he was the runnerup among the younger guys with a 78 that gave him a share of third with Altmann from the 16-to-18 division in the overall scoring.
Tyler Whitney of Cherry Hill, N.J. made birdies on the 14th and 17th holes and had nine pars on his card, including six in a row to begin his round, as he finished two shots behind Menendez in third place in the 13-to-15 division with an 80.
Whitney joined the four players from the 16-to-18 division who matched his 80 in the tie for sixth place in the overall standings. That quintet rounded out the top 10 in the overall scoring.
Frederik Hartmann of Devon took fourth place in the 13-to-15 division with an 83, Justin Stickel of Churchville was fifth with an 86, Ben Meixell of Wilmington, Del. was sixth with an 88, Lucas Solano of Vineland, N.J. was seventh with an 89 and Niklas Skjeveland of Jamison was eighth with a 90.
John Peyton of Wayne and Landon Finsen of Westampton, N.J. rounded out the top 10 in the 13-to-15 division as they finished in a tie for ninth place, each posting a 97.
There was a nice battle in the girls 16-to-18 division as Xinyuan Li of Pottstown edged her only other opponent in the division, Naaz Mehta of Newtown, by three shots to claim a Philly Junior Tour victory.
Li made birdies at the sixth and 18th holes and had seven pars on her scorecard on her way to a solid 81. Mehta also made a birdie at Golden Pheasant’s finishing hole and had five pars on her card as she registered an 84.
Christina St. Pierre of Yardley was the only entrant in the 13-to-15 division and claimed a Philly Junior Tour victory with her 100.
Baylor Keim of Blue Bell made a par on the sixth hole as he bested the field of nine-holers with a 49.
David Gilman of Cape May Court House, N.J. finished a shot behind Keim in second place with a 50 and Connor Clayton of Mays Landing, N.J. was another shot behind Gilman in third with a 51.
David Chando of Williamstown, N.J. and Jaxson Refold of Bryn Mawr ended up in a tie for fourth place, each signing for a 52, and Victor Wang of Hockessin, Del. and Matthew Bowman of Newtown rounded out the field in the coed 12-and-under division as they finished in a tie for sixth, each carding a 57.
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