Sitting around and awaiting his fate was more nerve-racking than anything Jason Weintraub experienced on the course last Wednesday at the City Section golf championships. After shooting a final-round 83 at Griffith Park’s Wilson Course the Palisades High junior turned in his scorecard and paced up and down the clubhouse path as subsequent scores filtered in. Turns out, his two-day total of 160 was one stroke over the cut line needed to qualify for the Southern California Regionals June 1 in Murrieta, although Weintraub will be one of two alternates invited should a player ahead of him not be able to make the trip. “I shot a lower score than I did last year and I was hoping it would be enough,” Weintraub said. “It’s disappointing to come up one stroke short.” Daniel Park of Los Angeles CES repeated as the individual champion with an even-par 144. The last player to repeat was Palisades’ Burley Stamps in 1997-98. The top 12 individuals who are not members of one of the two qualifying teams advance to the Regionals on their own. Rounding out Pali’s team were freshman Chris Lee (167), senior Ben Seelig (174), freshman Bo Jacobson (174), sophomore Zach Sklar and (186) and junior Ralph Guglielm (190). In team competition, the Dolphins were unable to defend their title, finishing seventh out of nine schools with a two-day total of 847. “We needed to shoot lights-out to have a chance even to finish second,” Pali coach James Paleno said. Granada Hills Kennedy won the title by carding a low score of 790, four strokes better than second-place Venice, which also qualified for the Regionals.
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