Cutrell Wins PA Match Play
May 6, 2005
Jeff Rivard, Executive Director (contact)
WPGA's 2004 Co-Player of the Year, Arnold Cutrell,
Totteridge, led a strong Association showing in the J. R. Siegel Match Play
Championship at Stonewall, outside Philadelphia, May 2-4. He won the
second annual competition, conducted by the Pennsylvania Golf Association.
Cutrell, the 2004 WPGA Mid-Amateur champion, defeated Glen Smeralgio, Yardley CC
on the 19th hole in sudden death.
He was one of nine players from the Association who
started in a 32-player field. Nevillewood's Paul Schlachter, the 2004
Pennsylvania Senior Amateur champion, reached the semi-finals, while Joe Corsi,
Totteridge, part of the WPGA 2004 Four-Ball winning team, won twice, beating
last year's Pennsylvania Amateur champion, Blaine Peffley, in the second round.
Winning his first round match was Artie Fink, Jr., Sinking Valley.
In addition to his finals victory over Smeraglio, Cutrell
beat Mike Danner, Lu Lu (near Philadelphia), Fink, John Robinson, Commonwealth
National (Horsham) in twenty holes, and Oscar Mestre, Jr., Overbrook (near
Philadelphia). He stopped a fourteen-year drought since the 1990 West Penn
Open victory as a professional, with the WPGA Mid-Am last year. Cutrell
now has won in each of his last two seasons. A native of Greensburg, he
played college golf at Wake Forest University.
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