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Nathan Smith
won his third Player of the Year honors since 2003, heading the
2007 WPGA Honor Roll with 826 points, one of the highest totals
since the system began in 1994. Smith, whose
hails from Brookville, resides in
Pittsburgh
and is a member at Wildwood GC. He is the
most recent area golfer to win a USGA Championship with the 2003 USGA
Mid-Amateur title. This season, he performed
well in all kinds of competitions, being the first golfer to win
in one season, the WPGA’s Tournament
of Champions, Mid-Amateur and Amateur. He
was runner-up in the Pennsylvania Amateur and reached the third
round in the USGA Mid-Am, losing on the home hole to Tim
Mickleson,
San Diego,
Tim’s brother.
Finishing
second is ten-time Player of the Year, Sean Knapp. Rounding
out the Honor Roll are Mike VanSickle,
Gibsonia; Arnold Cutrell,
Greensburg,
2006 Player of the Year; Robert Rohanna,
Waynesburg; David Brown, St. Clair; Frank
Fairman,
Punxsutawney;
William Miller,
Venetia,
multiple Junior Player of the Year; Adam Hofmann,
Pittsburgh;
and Artie Fink, Jr.,
Altoona.
Receiving
Honorable Mentions are Ron Coleman,
Erie;
Ron DeNunzio,
Greensburg;
Jon Smarelli,
New Castle;
and Tim Moynihan,
Murrysville.
Paul
Schlachter, one of the highest
ranked senior amateurs in the country, won his fourth straight
Senior Player of the Year title, one short of Bill
Baloh, Herminie’s, record of five
years, 1999-2003.
Schlachter opened with several winter wins, and played
very well the rest of the season with runner-up showings in both
the Pennsylvania Senior Amateur and West Penn Senior Amateur.
Rounding out the top five were
John Benson,
Punxsutawney,
winner of the Pennsylvania Senior Match Play; Don Erickson,
DuBois, winner of the WPGA Senior
Amateur; Bob Allshouse,
Greensburg;
and Joe Cordaro,
Pittsburgh.
For a complete listing of the Honor
Roll, please visit the
Honor Roll Center.
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