CITY AMATEUR MATCH PLAY DRAWS SMALLER MEN'S FIELD
The two finalists in last year's City Men's Amateur Match Play Championship, winner David Bieterman and runner-up Steve Block, are all set to tee it up this week in the 2002 edition of the tournament, but their competition won't be as keen or as deep.Only 60 players - a considerable drop-off from the 95 who entered in 2001 - will participate in the 36-hole qualifier Monday and Tuesday at Community Golf Course. Thirty-two will qualify for match play,...
Amateur Match: Newtown's Smeraglio
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PA. AMATEUR MATCH PLAY ELVERSON - In a classic duel between east and west, Greensburg's Arnold Cutrell defeated Newtown's Glen Smeraglio on the 19th hole to win the Pennsylvania Golf Association's second R. Jay Sigel Pennsylvania Amateur Match Play Championship at Stonewall (par 70, 6,652 yards).It was a dramatic finish for a back-and-forth match that featured only six halved holes and clutch, match-saving punts by Cutrell on holes No. 17 and 18, the...
Amateur Match: BRIEFLY
Dorchinecz, Marsh make Amateur final Matt Dorchinecz of Canton and Don Marsh of Alpharetta will meet in the final of the Atlanta Amateur Match Play Championship after advancing through quarterfinal and semifinals rounds on Saturday.The final round of the 82nd annual event is today at Rivermont Golf & Country Club in Alpharetta.Marsh, 60, a Rivermont member, advanced to the final after coming from behind to defeat 2003 finalist DeWitt Weaver III of Suwanee 1 up. Weaver...
Amateur Match: Woods, Erickson in match-play finals
BIGFORK - Brett Woods and Tyler Erickson advanced into today's championship match with victories Saturday in the Montana State Men's Amateur Match Play Champonship at Eagle Bend. The two will tee off this morning at 8 in the 36-hole final.Woods defeated Seth Jamison and Reid Lende to earn a berth in the finals. Woods won both matches 1 up.Erickson opened with a 5 & 3 victory over Woody Spainhower and then outlasted Great Falls' Scott...
Amateur Match: 3 SHARE FIRST-ROUND METRO LEAD
SPRINGFIELD - Rick Cherubini, recent winner of the City Men's Amateur Match Play Championship in Dayton, wasted no time establishing himself as a contender in the Miami Valley Metropolitan Championship.On the Northwood Hills Country Club course he played while growing up, Cherubini put together a solid 1-under-par 71 Thursday to share the first-round lead in the 72-hole competition with Chaz Shively of Huber Heights and Robert Eardley of Fairborn. They were the only players in...