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,...
TOP PLAYERS DEFEATED IN AMATEUR MATCH PLAY
It was a day of upsets in the second round of 1997 Dayton Amateur Match Play Championships at Community Golf Course on Wednesday.Defending champion Doug Kiser saw his bid for two straight titles squashed by former Alter High School star Glenn Spencer, who won their match 4 and 3. The most surprising upset came at the hands of John Kenney, who defeated 1995 runner-up Brian Bair, the medalist of the qualifying round, 1-up. Bair's 67 had beaten everyone in Monday's...
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...
Amateur Match: Newtown's Smeraglio
falls in championship
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: Hudson, Shoup make L.V. Amateur final ** They will meet today in the 36-hole championship match.
The prior champions fell. So, too, did all of the pre-tournament favorites.As a result, some time late this afternoon, a fresh face will emerge as champion of the Lehigh Valley Amateur Match Play Tournament at Green Pond Country Club. The new champ will be either Jeff Hudson, a 40-year-old amusement games industry executive from Upper Saucon Township, or Andy Shoup of Upper Macungie Township, a 36-year-old product manager at Air Products.Hudson and Shoup survived two days and four...