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109th Amateur Champion,
Nathan Smith
Final Results |
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Smith makes more history in Amateur (07/02/09)
When Nathan Smith edged collegians Nathan Sutherland (Miami,
Ohio) and John Popeck (Maryland) at Allegheny to win the
West Penn Amateur, the Brookville native reached two more
benchmarks. He joins a group of nine golfers who have won
three or more Amateurs, and a group of six who have won
three
Amateurs in a row. The six players on both lists include
three USGA champions, Arnold Palmer, W.C. Fownes, and Smith,
plus three other players who dominated their eras--Sean
Knapp, Bob Reilly, and John Birmingham. |
Simons wins rain-delayed playoff for 89th Junior
Championship (06/26/09)
Brookville – Nine days
after the playoff for the WPGA Junior Championship was
postponed due to bad weather, Darren Simons of St. Marys
defeated Punxsutawney’s Easton Renwick on the third playoff
hole at Pinecrest Country Club to win the 89th
Championship. Garrett Browning of Coraopolis joined the
playoff. All three completed the twenty-seven hole
competition with a score of 113.
Renwick and Simons each birdied the first playoff hole to
continue. Renwick putted first and sank a 30-foot downhill
putt. Simons matched Renwick’s downhill putt with one from
15 feet to continue the playoff. Putting last, Browning
missed his putt from 12 feet. (more) |
Thompson wins second Open (06/24/09)
Indiana CC assistant professional Dan Thompson, after
missing the cut in the 2008 West Penn Open at Butler,
recovered to 2007 form when he won the Open at Nemacolin
Woodlands Resort's Mystic Rock Course. Thompson won this
year's version with 68-71--139 at Westmoreland CC. He edged
2006 West Penn Open champion Bob Friend, Pittsburgh by one
shot as Friend carded 72-68--140. Ironically Friend also
missed last year's cut at Butler. Friend took a two stroke
lead in the final round by opening with three straight
birdies, while Thompson was three over par after four holes.
Friend had the lead the rest of the way until a tee shot on
the final hole found a fairway bunker and he bogeyed. After
fighting back to even par from three over including deuces
on both front nine par threes, #7 and #9, Thompson bogeyed
#17.
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REGIONAL
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Smith, Rohanna, record top tens in Northeast Amateur
(06/29/09)
Nathan Smith, Pittsburgh,
tied 7th, and Robert Rohanna, Waynesburg, tied 9th, led four
area players in the Northeast Amateur at Wannamoisett CC,
Rumford, Rhode Island, June 24-27. Smith shot 66-68-68-60--272,
and Rohanna was a stroke behind with 70-64-65-74. Also competing
in the strong field were Sean Knapp, Oakmont, tied for 43rd, and
Mike VanSickle, Wexford, tied for 61st. The winner was Dan
Woltman, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, with 70-64-67-64--265, a new
tournament record. (more) |
From S. David Herron to
Mike Van Sickle, ninety years of college golf (06/18/09)
At the 1919 US Amateur, the first played at Oakmont, local
golfer S. Davidson Herron, a member of Allegheny at the time,
defeated golf immortal Bob Jones, then seventeen years old, in
the final, 5 & 4. Herron was also the medalist with a 36-hole
total of 158. He played on the 1923 Walker Cup team. Among his
achievements was playing on the Princeton University team,
captaining the Tigers his senior year.
In 2008-2009, Mike VanSickle,
Gibsonia, finished his collegiate career at Marquette University
in Milwaukee. He won five tournaments, was named Big East
Conference Player of the Year, and received the Byron Nelson
Award, presented by the Golf Coaches Association of
America. Overall he won eleven collegiate titles, believed to be
the most ever won by an area collegiate golfer.
Between Herron and
VanSickle were numerous outstanding collegiate players from
Western Pennsylvania. They include, but are not limited to . . .
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RECENT
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(06/09/09)
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Casual Golf Days registration
launched (06/01/09)
Van Sickle wins Byron Nelson Award and is First Team All-American
(06/01/09)
IUP golfer wins NCAA D-II (06/01/09)
Reints begins work as USGA Intern (06/01/09)
Boughner named to USGA Committee (05/27/09)
USGA Museum launches Arnold Palmer Memory Book (05/18/09)
Information on 2010 US
Women's Open Championship (05/14/09)
Knapp and Smith smash Brand
records (5/11/09)
Smith, Schlachter win Sigel Match Play divisions
(05/11/09)
Area collegians gain honors (05/06/09)
Date change for West Penn Amateur qualifier (05/01/09)
Van Sickle named Big East Player of the Year (05/01/09)
Allshouse and McGuire win
Semple Brothers Century Foursomes (04/28/09) |
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