PGA of America Golf Professional Lamar Saxon and Team Win 2026 Philadelphia PGA Pro-Junior Team Championship
Blue Bell, Pa. (June 30, 2026) — Kennett Square Golf and Country Club’s Lamar Saxon, PGA, Grant Burkhart, Paul Sanfrancesco, and Patrick Puskar captured the 2026 Philadelphia Pro-Junior Team Championship at Bluestone Country Club after posting an impressive 17-under-par.
Yardley Country Club’s J.T. Wambold, Tommy Carpenter, Maddie Cabot, and Brady Weltz finished second only one stroke back. John F. Byrne Golf Course’s golf professional, Rocco Sgrillo, and junior golfers Joey Conrad, Ethan Clark, and Jake Smaron placed third at 12-under-par. Tavistock Country Club’s Matt Cocco, PGA, Brady Cobb, Andrew Walker, and Nick DiMedio finished fourth at 10-under-par.
In a tie for fifth place was Bellewood Country Club’s Kyle Miller, PGA, Max Berish, Adam Smith and Brett Wade; Radnor Valley Country Club’s John Esher-Hagel, PGA, Sebastian Leone, Thomas Manzi, and Mike Manzi; Cedarbrook Country Club’s Jim Parella, PGA, Jonathon Schultz, Taylor Becht, Baylor Keim; and Merion Golf Club’s Nick Iacono, PGA, Owen Ciesielka, Brody Campbell, and Grant MacColl.
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The 2026 Philadelphia PGA Pro-Junior Team Championship is supported by the PGA Tour, Golf Max, and TKS Golf Sales / Tom Gleason. The Philadelphia PGA Section and its PGA Professionals thank our host, Bluestone Country Club, their members, management, host PGA Professionals, and staff, as well as our partners, as the event would not have been possible without their support.
About the Philadelphia PGA Section
The Philadelphia PGA Section, covering eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware, is one of 41 geographical managing entities of the PGA of America. This Section manages nearly 900 PGA of America Members and Associates who are employed at over 590 golf facilities in our region.
Contact: Matt Frey, PGA, Communications Director, mfrey@pgahq.com
Ted McKenzie, now retired, has a remarkable résumé for both playing professional accomplishments. He was the longtime PGA Professional at Waynesborough Country Club in Paoli, Pa., and later helped found the famed Stonewall Links in Elverson, Pa. During his career, he worked his way through the ranks of the Philadelphia PGA Section’s Board of Directors, ultimately serving as the Section’s president, and also served as the Section’s tournament chair. For over 20 years, McKenzie was one of the leading players in the Section. His two biggest wins within the Section included the 1971 Philadelphia Open and the 1979 Philadelphia PGA Professional Championship. He earned the Player of the Year title in 1975, and also earned the F. Edward DeBaufre Trophy for Scoring Average the same year. Throughout his career, he qualified for two U.S. Opens, seven PGA Professional Championships and a Senior PGA Professional Championship. In the first 13 years of the Challenge Cup Matches against the Middle Atlantic PGA Section, McKenzie qualified for the team 11 times and he earned a berth on the team a total of 12 times. In 1984, he was honored as the Section’s PGA Golf Professional of the Year and was inducted into the Philadelphia PGA Hall of Fame in 2006.
Jerry Pisano, named a Philadelphia PGA Playing Legend posthumously, worked as the PGA Professional at several facilities, including Overbrook Golf Club in Villanova, Pa., Locust Valley in Coopersburg, Pa., Radnor Valley Country Club in Villanova, Pa., and Edgmont Country Club in Newtown Square, Pa. Pisano won the Philadelphia Open three times, in 1957, 1962, and 1965, in addition to the 1964 Pennsylvania Open. Over the course of his career, Pisano competed in five major championships, including three PGA Championships (1961, 1962, and 1963), and two U.S. Opens (1962 and 1963).
