Mass Golf leans on home course advantage, sweeps team titles at New England Junior Championship
BERNARDSTON, Massachusetts (August 18, 2026) – Tuesday called for the second day of this year’s New England Junior Amateur Championship at Crumpin Fox Club.
Mass Golf’s Boys would complete the comeback after being 14 shots back after day one, finishing the tournament 1-under en route to victory. For the girls, Team Massachusetts would go back-to-back.
The Boy’s Individual title belongs to Zac Georgantas, who outlasted Will Lord (CT) in a four-hole playoff en route to victory. Maddy Savary (NH) took home the Girls, finishing two shots ahead of her competitors.
Starting with the girls, Mady Savary took home this years girls title, with a 73 (+1) in today’s round, and 225 (+9) overall. Starting on the first hole with Mass Golf’s Ryley Regan and Connecticut’s Eve Krinsky, Savary quickly made birdie on the par-4 second hole. Over the next eight holes Savary would find herself in trouble carding four bogeys over that span. On holes 11 and 12 she made back-to-back birdies to pull herself back to one over, but unfortunately made bogey on the 13th to halt any momentum. A birdie on the 15th would be all she had left as she finished the back nine under par.
Regan continued her steady form, shooting a nine-over 81 to finish 3rd; her start was less than ideal, though, as she bogeyed three of her first five holes. Despite this, she’d par 9 of her next 10 holes, eventually finishing just three shots back of Savary, 81 (+9) in today’s round, and 228 (+12) overall.
Finishing out the top three in solo 2nd was fellow Mass Golfer Callie Crean; steady rounds of 75, 76, and 76 had her finish at 227 (+11) for the tournament. Proving to be relentless to team Massachusetts, as well as the rest of the field, the first three holes had Crean making two bogeys to start her day. Her lone birdie of the day came on the par-4 sixth hole that she had birdied the day prior. After this, a few more scattered birdies would be featured on her card en route to her 76 (+4) day.
Callie Crean hits a tee shot (Mass Golf)
This year’s girls’ team championship is staying with the hosts as Team Massachusetts goes back-to-back; their total of 675 (+27) was good enough to hold off the opposing teams by 15 strokes.
Making way over to the boys, this year would require a four-hole playoff between Big East-bound golfers Will Lord (CT) and Zac Georgantas (MA). Lord, who’s headed to the University of Connecticut this fall, caught fire in his final round, shooting a five-under 67, but his opponent, Zac Georgantas, who moves into Providence College at the end of this month, had one more tournament win left up his sleeve for this summer.
On the second playoff hole, this one seemed about over as Georgantas put his tee shot into the hazard on the left side of the fairway, luckily for him, though, his ball was able to be found, and through the thicket of branches and rough, he muscled a shot over the water hazard on the 18th at Crumpin Fox to the far side of the green, two putting for par, and forcing another playoff hole to keep his day going.
Zac Georgantas’ playoff winning putt (Mass Golf)
Rewinding to the rounds that got them there, though, Lord started his day on the eighth hole, three shots back of the lead. In his round that included eight birdies, Lord wasted no time finding four of those birdies in the first six holes. Two more came back-to-back on the 16th and 17th holes. Eventually getting to six under with one hole to play, Lord would stutter, bogeying his 18th (7th) hole, putting him into the eventual playoff.
In what seems like the Summer of Zac Georgantas, he strikes one last time, adding another trophy to his cabinet this summer. Back-to-back 68’s (-4) were enough to erase his first day 75 and put him into a playoff, which he eventually won. Starting on the ninth hole, Georgantas’ round would remain pretty quiet until the final four holes. Going into his 15th (5th) hole, one-under on the day, Georgantas made eagle on the par-5 fifth hole bringing him to three under, his heroics wouldn’t stop there though as he’d birdie his 18th (8th) hole, forcing the playoff unknowingly.
For the Boy’s Team championship, Team Massachusetts erased a 14-shot deficit from Team Rhode Island en route to finishing 1-under as a team (1079).
In December 2023, the New England Golf Association made a historic announcement by naming Crumpin-Fox Club in Bernardston as the permanent host of the New England Junior Amateur Championship from 2025 to 2027. Crumpin-Fox hosted the 2019 Mass Junior Amateur Championship and the 2025 Mass Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship, plus several qualifying events in recent years.
Crumpin-Fox, which takes its name from the area’s old Crump & Fox Soda Company, features several standout holes that weave through dense forest and lots of elevation change. Roger Rulewich completed the first nine holes working with Robert Trent Jones in 1977 and returned to complete the entire course in 1990. The signature hole (No. 8) featured an elevated tee shot to a fairway flanked entirely on the left by a lake. The golfer then has the option of laying up, leaving a mid- to long-iron shot to the green, or playing the heroic shot of trying to reach the green in two.
Crumpin-Fox Club, located just south of the Mass-Vermont line in Western Massachusetts, is hosting the New England Junior Amateur through 2027. (Teddy Doggett)
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