GREENSBURG — A strong and accomplished field is set to compete Monday in the 33rd WPGA Spring Stroke Play Championship at Hannastown Golf Club.
The competition — a 36-hole, single day, stroke play event — began in 1994 as an invitational for club champions. It has since shifted to an expanded field that traditionally includes many of the top amateur players in the region.
That is again the case this year, with multiple local standouts playing in the championship.
Three members of Team Pennsylvania will play in a group together at 8:10 a.m., as Bailey Donahue, Jack Sacriponte and Carson Kittsley will represent the state development team at Hannastown.
Nolan Shilling, a player at Youngstown State who has taken top qualifying spots in both WPGA Amateur and Open Qualifying events in the last month, will tee off at 9 a.m. in a group with West Virginia University standout Nick Turowski, who recently put on a strong performance at the NCAA Regionals, as well as Ryan Costello.
Interestingly, five sets of brothers will compete Monday, including Turowski and his brother, Alex, as well as Donahue and his brother, Daniel. Kittsley and his brother, Davis, as well as Hannastown members Brian and Kevin Fajt, and Connor and Colin McKenzie, will all compete.
2022 Spring Stroke Play champion Amani D’Ambrosio, as well as former Miami (OH) golfer Matt Mattioli, Penn State recruit Ravi Desai and many more strong players will compete for the Jack Benson Trophy, named for the WPGA amateur legend who won six West Penn Amateur titles from 1934 to 1954.
Monday will serve as the third time that Hannastown Golf Club has hosted the Spring Stroke Play, with D’Ambrosio’s title in 2022 coming at the Greensburg club. In 2007, Nathan Smith took the Spring Stroke Play Championship at Hannastown, as well.
Play will begin Monday from two tees, starting at 8:00 a.m.
For any media inquiries, please contact WPGA Director of Communications Josh Rowntree.
