Trebor Melendez, the talented 13-year-old from Vineland, N.J., seems to be particularly tough on the golf courses in the proximity of the Jersey Shore.
Melendez was at it again Saturday as he matched par with a solid 72, the best score of the day among the guys at LBI National Golf & Resort in Little Egg Harbor Township, N.J., to claim a Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour victory in the 13-to-15 division.
Saturday turned into a pretty nice day in the afternoon after a cloudy, chilly start, but I’m not sure how long it took for that clearing to make it the Jersey Shore.
Regardless, the conditions were just fine for Melendez as he made a birdie at the second hole, went back-to-back with birdies at eight and nine and added another birdie at 16 while making 10 pars.
It was a short hop from Barnegat, N.J. to LBI National for David Padgett as he made a birdie at the 10th hole and had 12 pars on his scorecard, opening his round with a string of four straight pars and having another run of four straight pars from six through nine, as he earned runnerup honors among the younger guys with a 4-over 76.
Beckett Kush of Yardley made birdies at the first, eighth, ninth 13th and 16th holes and had seven pars on his card as he finished a shot behind Padgett in third place with a 77.
Jack Lobley, a freshman at Shipley and a Gladwyne resident, and Preston Minio of Lansdale shared fourth place, each posting a 79 and Jack Venne of Moorestown, N.J. and Callan O’Keefe of Plymouth Meeting finished in a tie for sixth, each tallying an 83.
Lucas Solano, another Vineland, N.J. guy, took eighth place with an 85, Thomas Holt IV of Haddonfield, N.J. was ninth with an 86 and Mason Arnold of Ambler and William Scanlon, a freshman on the Springfield golf team, rounded out the top 10 in the 13-to-15 division as they finished in a tie for 10th, each signing for an 88.
It was the second win in as many starts in the 16-to-18 division on the Philly Junior Tour for Nolan Traczykiewicz, a junior on the Central Bucks South golf team, as Traczykiewicz made birdies on the first, 10th and 16th holes and had 11 pars on his scoreboard, including a string of five straight pars from four through eight, on his way to a 3-over 75.
Traczykiewicz was coming off a Philly Junior Tour victory in the April 12th stop at Rancocas Golf Club.
Daniel Herzchel of Linwood, N.J. opened his round with back-to-back birdies at the first and second holes and had 11 pars on his card, including six pars in his final seven holes, as he earned runnerup honors among the older guys with a 5-over 77.
Quinn Gallagher, a junior on the golf team at The Haverford School and a Bryn Mawr resident, made birdies on the first, fifth and 10th holes and had nine pars on his card as he finished in third place with an 80.
Grady Hoffman of Ocean City, N.J. took fourth place with an 83, Cooper Micucci and Joey Higgins, juniors on Philadelphia Academy Charter’s Public League championship team last fall, shared fifth, each tallying an 86, Toby Lerner, a sophomore on the Hatboro-Horsham golf team, was seventh with a 92 and Blake Shakal of Hershey was eighth with a 94.
Michael Liu, a Garnet Valley resident whose senior season at Archmere Academy is probably under way by now, and Jude Cole of Horsham shared ninth place as they each recorded a 95 and Jack Fouts of Brigantine, N.J. rounded out the field in the 16-to-18 division as he finished 11th with a 109.
The best score among the girls at LBI National also emerged from the 13-to-15 division as Noor Mehta, coming off a solid freshman season at Council Rock North in which she came up just short of earning a trip to the state tournament in Class AAA, earned a Philly Junior Tour victory with a solid 6-over 78.
Mehta made birdies on the first and sixth holes and had eight pars on her scorecard, including a run of five straight pars from seven through 11.
Madison Cabot, the reigning Philly Junior Tour Player of the Year in the 13-to-15 division from Newtown, had 11 pars on her card, including a string of six straight pars from the fifth through the 10th holes, as she earned runnerup honors with an 80.
Hailey Cousins of Port Republic, N.J. made a birdie on the first hole and added a par at four as she finished in third place with a 95.
Sonia Rosenman of Moorestown, N.J. took fourth place with a 98, Julie Costello of Ocean City, N.J. was fifth with a 106 and Brooklyn Ksiazek, an Egg Harbor Township, N.J. resident playing a home game, rounded out the field in the 13-to-15 division as she finished sixth with a 122.
Zoe Sellan, taking a road trip from Rye, N.Y., had nine pars on her scorecard, including a run of four straight pars from the second through the fifth holes, as she earned a Philly Junior Tour victory in the 16-to-18 division with an 84.
A trio out of Cinnaminson, N.J. rounded out the field in the 16-to-18 division as Emily Renouf had four pars on her card while earning runnerup honors with a 98, Taylor Hanna had four pars on her card while taking third place with a 104, and Madison Gibson finished fourth with a 108.
Michael Antolino of Richboro finished off his round with a birdie at the ninth hole and had three pars on his scorecard as he bested the field of 12-and-under nine-holers with a 5-over 41.
Kamran Patel of Moorestown, N.J. had three pars on his card as he finished two shots behind Antolino in second place with a 43
Jaxon Bucci of Marlton, N.J. closed out his round with a par on the ninth hole as he finished in third place with a 47.
Jamie Cahn of Penn Valley took fourth place with a 51, Domenic Scanny of Linwood, N.J. was fifth with a 52 and the pair of Joseph (J.T.) Smith, another Linwood, N.J. guy, and James Hanson, another player teeing it up close to his Egg Harbor Township, N.J. home, finished in a tie for sixth place, each registering a 56.
Axel Zurheide of Northfield, N.J. rounded out the field in the boys 12-and-under division as he finished in eighth place with a 66.
Charlotte Cabot, another member of Newtown’s Team Cabot, was the lone entry in the girls 12-and-under division and she finished strong with pars on the seventh and ninth holes while carding a solid 45.
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