Suffield Golfers in the Hunt at Connecticut Junior PGA Championship

NEW HAVEN, CT — Hartford County is well-represented at the top of the leaderboard in both the boys and girls divisions after the opening round of the Connecticut Junior PGA Championship at The Course at Yale.

Tyler Hahn of Avon was the only player to break par, firing a 2-under 68 to lead by two strokes over Brendan Fagan of Unionville and Sathscia Sowinkong of Wallingford. That trio will comprise Wednesday's final threesome, teeing off at 12:40 p.m.

Starting immediately before that group at 12:30 p.m. will be the three leading girls: Pacharada Treekul of New Britain (71, +1), Angela Garvin of Feeding Hills, Mass. (73, +3) and Maisie Filler of Bloomfield (75, +5).

A dozen boys and one girl from Hartford County towns are within eight shots of the lead:

• 72 - Luke Carroll, West Hartford; Thomas Durkin, Suffield; Austin Rupp, Suffield; Paul Wheatley, Wethersfield; Mac Mahoney, West Hartford
• 73 - Bryan McLennan, Windsor Locks; Justin Mathew, Rocky Hill
• 75 - Jason Liu, Windsor; James Bosworth, Simsbury
• 76 - Kevin Lynch, Glastonbury; Kevin Zipp, Farmington
  Girls
• 79 - Mia Grzywinski, Farmington

Click here for complete Tuesday results, and here for Wednesday's pairings and starting times.

Photo credit: The Course at Yale