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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.
After both making par at the second, the playoff returned to
the first hole. Simons again holed a downhill putt, this one
from 30 feet, and when Renwick’s putt from 15 feet missed,
Simons claimed the Championship. This is Simons’ first WPGA
win.
The
rain-shortened Championship was conducted on June 17 at The
Club at Shadow Lakes in Aliquippa with Browning, Renwick and
Simons completing the twenty-seven hole event with a score
of 113. Defending Champion Ryan Prokay of Grove City, and
Sewickley’s Eric Urda, finished outside the playoff by one
stroke at 114.
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