Robert Rittereiser, coming off his freshman season on the Salesianum golf team in the spring, carded a solid 1-over-par 72 at Medford Lakes Country Club to claim a Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour victory in the 16-to-18 division July 8th.
Rittereiser made birdies at the fifth and eighth holes and had 13 pars on his scorecard, twice rattling off four straight pars from one through four and again from 10 through 13. He toured the outgoing nine at Medford Lakes in 1-under 34.
Ravi Gohel of Mount Laurel, N.J. finished up his round with a birdie at the 18th hole and had 13 pars on his card, including a string of eight straight pars from eight through 15, as he earned runnerup honors with a 3-over 74.
David Watts of Haddonfield, N.J. made a birdie on the seventh hole and had 11 pars on his card, including a run of five straight pars from 11 through 15, as he finished in third place with a 5-over 76.
Benjamin Perticari of West Deptford, N.J. took fourth place with a 77, Vaughn Smartt of Bryn Mawr and John Hoffman of Marlton, N.J. shared fifth, each tallying a 79, and Connor Holland of Churchville was seventh with an 80.
Max Petrakis, another Marlton, N.J. guy, and Sy Kavitsky, a junior on the Neshaminy golf team, shared eighth place, each signing for an 81, and Jack Forstein of Moorestown, N.J. rounded out the top 10 in the 16-to-18 division as he finished 10th with an 83.
Bobby Stefanski of Newtown Square and Rayan Shah, a Newtown resident who helped George School capture the Friends Schools League crown as a sophomore in the spring, shared the top spot in the 13-to-15 division, each registering a 2-over 73.
Stefanski made back-to-back birdies at the 12th and 13th holes and had 12 pars on his scorecard, stringing together eight straight pars from four through 11. Shah made a birdie at the 12th hole and had 14 pars in his steady round, including a run of seven straight pars from three through nine.
Sam Whitehouse of Pottstown and Lucas Solano of Vineland, N.J. finished two shots behind Stefanski and Shah in a tie for third place, each posting a 4-over 75.
Whitehouse made birdies at the first, third, ninth and 18th holes and had seven pars on his card. After making a birdie at the eighth hole, Lucas Solano went back-to-back with birdies at 11 and 12 and had eight pars on his card with a pair of streaks of four straight pars from four through seven and again from 14 through 17.
Jack Gilbert of Bryn Mawr took fifth place with a 76, Brooks Buerhaus of Bel Air, Md. and Gavin McLane of Wyncote shared sixth, each carding a 77, and David Padgett of Barnegat, N.J. and Parker Kriews of Manahawkin, N.J. finished in a tie for eighth, each recording a 79.
Rounding out the top 10 in the 13-to-15 division was Dean Matta of West Grove as he finished in 10th place with an 80.
The best score of the day among the girls came out of the 13-to-15 division as Emma Cowan of Moorestown, N.J. had nine pars on her scorecard on her way to a Philly Junior Tour victory with an 86.
Hailey Cousins of Port Republic, N.J. went back-to-back with birdies at the 15th and 16th holes and had six pars on her card as she finished a shot behind Cowan in second place with an 87.
Naaya Patel, another Moorestown, N.J. entry, made pars on the third and 11th holes as she finished in third place with a 99.
Gigi Lake of Newtown took fourth place with a 103, Mackenzie Lim of Harleysville was fifth with a 108, and Kyla Fuente of Medford, N.J. and Sonia Rosenman, another Moorestown, N.J. entry, rounded out the field in the 13-to-15 division as they finished in a tie for sixth, each tallying a 112.
Morgan Tyhanic of Little Egg Harbor, N.J. finished at the top of the leaderboard in the 16-to-18 division as she had nine pars on her scorecard on her way to an 87.
Madison Gibson of Cinnaminson, N.J. and Christina St. Pierre, who wrapped up her scholastic career at Pennsbury last fall, finished in a tie for second place, each signing for a 97.
Gibson made a birdie on the 17th hole and had three pars on her card. St. Pierre made a birdie on the sixth hole and a par at 13.
Rounding out the field in the 16-to-18 division was Emily Renouf, another Cinnaminson, N.J. gal, as she finished in fourth place with a 106.
Kash Gray of Eagleville, coming off a victory in a Nine-Hole Series event two days earlier at DuPont Country Club’s Montchanin nine, made birdies at the fourth, sixth and seventh holes and had four pars on his scorecard as he bested the field of 12-and-under nine-holers with a sparkling 1-under 34.
Chase Venne of Moorestown, N.J. had six pars on his card, including three straight pars at the first, second and third holes to open his round, as he earned runnerup honors with a 3-over 38.
Damien Dollard of Cinnaminson, N.J., the Philly Junior Tour’s Player of the Year in the boys 12-and-under division in 2025, had five pars on his card as he finished in third place, a shot behind Venne with a 39.
Caleb Solano, another member of Team Solano out of Vineland, N.J., took fourth place with a 44, Crew Schiemer of Ocean View, N.J. was fifth with a 49 and Kamran Patel, another member of Team Patel out of Moorestown, N.J., rounded out the field in the boys 12-and-under division as he finished in sixth place with a 52.
Sydney Lim, another member of Harleysville’s Team Lim, was the lone entry in the girls 12-and-under division and posted a 58.
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