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By winning the West Penn Open at
Butler on June 30-July 1, Nathan Smith joins ten players who
have won both the West Penn Amateur and Open--Eben Byers,
William C. Fownes, Arnold Palmer, John Birmingham, Jim Masserio,
Ron Milanovich, Frank Fuhrer, III, Marshall Marraccini, Rick
Stimmel and Bob Friend. Stimmel--2002, Friend--2006; and
Smith-2008, completed the feat this decade.
With wins of both in the same
year, the groups gets smaller that Smith is now a part of:
Byers, 1902; Fownes, 1906; Masserio, 1971, and Smith this
year. All four are USGA champions. Byers won the 1906
Amateur; Fownes, 1910 Amateur, Masserio, 1969 Junior
Amateur, and Smith, 2003 Mid-Amateur.
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