The Golf Association of Philadelphia

Huntingdon Valley CC’s Scott holds
one-shot lead at Senior Amateur

NORTH HILLS, Pa.-Craig Scott of Huntingdon Valley CC, a newcomer to the Golf Association of Philadelphia senior circuit, carded an even-par 71 amidst a steady and menacing breeze on Tuesday at Lu Lu CC (par 71, 6,286 yards) to take the first-round lead of the 34^th Senior Amateur Championship. The Senior Amateur Championship is for players 55 years of age and older.

Jay Howson, Jr. of St. Davids GC, the 1999 Senior Amateur champion, is a shot back in second after recording a 1-over-par 72. Mike Nilon of Philadelphia CC and Michael Rose of Ashbourne CC, the reigning Senior Amateur champion, are tied in third place at 2-over 73. A group of seven players stand at 74. In all, 20 players are within five shots of the lead.

A field of 192 players competed.

Scott, 55, of Marshalls Creek, Pa. in the Poconos, turned in a compact and efficient level-par round with three birdies and three bogeys. He registered 13 greens in regulation. Owner of the Mountain Manor Inn & Golf Club Resort, Scott has only played in one other Golf Association of Philadelphia senior event since turning 55 years of age this spring. A busy schedule and the long commute to the Philadelphia area have kept him away.

However, Scott said he cleared his schedule and made it a point to make the lengthy ride to Lu Lu CC for the Senior Amateur Championship. It could turn out to be the best decision of his golfing career.

"This is a good time of year and was one of the things I wanted to do," said Scott. "I’m going to go out and have a good time tomorrow. I have no expectations because that’s golf."

Scott is no stranger to posting low scores.

He has qualified for three U.S. Middle-Amateur Championships in addition to one U.S. Amateur. In the three U.S. Mid-Ams, he’s been in a playoff each time to advance into match play but has failed to move on.

On Tuesday, Scott said a solid driver and putter accounted for the result. All three birdie putts were outside 10 feet.

Howson, 66, of Malvern, Pa. recorded five birdies, four bogeys and a double bogey in his round to find the top of the leaderboard. Howson, who started on the back side, recorded an even-par 36 on the outward nine before finishing at 1-over-par on the front.

"Like the old saying goes," said Howson, "you can’t win it on the first day, but you can lose it."

Nilon, 55, of Gladwyne, Pa. and Rose, 57, of Huntingdon Valley, Pa. will join Scott and Howson in the final group. Nilon missed one fairway en route to a 73. A switch back to his overlapping grip has resulted in good things.

Rose fired a 1-under-par 34 on the front side, but struggled on the inward side with a 3-over-par 39. Rose was a shot out of the lead a year ago before rallying for the victory.

Gross Scores
Pos	Name	Club	Score
1	Craig Scott	Huntingdon Valley CC	71
2	Jay Y. Howson, Jr.	St. Davids GC	72
T3	Michael Rose	Ashbourne CC	73
T3	Michael J Nilon	Philadelphia CC	73
T5	Charles McClaskey	Wyncote GC	74
T5	Robert G. Housen	Pine Valley GC	74
T5	Louis J Pace	Medford Village CC	74
T5	Terrence J. Sawyer	Yardley CC	74
T5	William Weinfeld	Melrose CC	74
T5	Robert Proto	Little Mill CC	74
T5	Jay Kocher	Wilmington CC	74
T12	James R Haynie	Lu Lu CC	75
T12	Thomas DiCinti	Little Mill CC	75
T12	Stephen Daley	Lu Lu CC	75
T12	Bill Walker	Burlington CC	75
T12	Edward H. Pappas	Rolling Green GC	75
T12	Ed M Roberts	Old York Road CC	75
T12	Michael C Rowland	Lehigh CC	75
T12	Basil Gilfillian	Running Deer GC	75
T12	Frank S. Polizzi	Whitemarsh Valley CC	75
T12	Warren W Deakins	Philadelphia CC	75
T22	J. Wendell Outhous	St. Davids GC	76
T22	Thomas H. Mallouk	Lookaway GC	76
T22	David K. Brookreson	Huntingdon Valley CC	76
T22	James J Ginsberg	Philmont CC	76
T22	Frank M Treml	Sandy Run CC	76
T22	Gregg Gottshall	Reading CC	76
T22	William Kufta	Jericho National GC	76
T29	Neil McDermott	Llanerch CC	77
T29	Daniel B. Burton	Bent Creek CC	77
T29	J. Peter Pierce	Philadelphia CC	77
T29	Norm Kulujian	Lookaway GC	77
33	Herbert Gordon	Doylestown CC	78
T34	James R Sherratt	Old York Road CC	79
T34	Don Donatoni	White Manor CC	79
T34	Steve Kyriakodis	Lu Lu CC	79
T34	Robert J Murphy	Wilmington CC	79
T34	Donald C Galbraith	Stonewall	79
T34	David A Jordan	Woodbury CC	79
T34	Curt Fromal	The Springhaven Club	79
T34	Raymond Fuller	Running Deer GC	79
T34	Jack Holland	Whitford CC	79
T34	Douglas A Dick	Chester Valley GC	79
T34	John W. Rowe	Whitemarsh Valley CC	79
T34	Bill DiJirolanio	Lancaster CC	79
T34	Carl B. Everett	Merion GC	79
T47	Ron Mittendorf	Blue Bell CC	80
T47	Jarrett B Kling	Merion GC	80
T47	Jay McLaughlin	Stone Harbor CC	80
T47	Fred Olt	Little Mill CC	80
T47	Jon Mabry	Moorestown Field Club	80
T47	Michael Dougherty	Huntingdon Valley CC	80
T47	Arthur Jacoby	Commonwealth National GC	80
T47	Richard A. Smith	Philadelphia CC	80
T47	Ken Gaskill	Philadelphia Publinks	80
T47	Robert Freudenheim	Radnor Valley CC	80
T57	Wally Swiger	Huntingdon Valley CC	81
T57	Michael J. Egan	Lookaway GC	81
T57	Eric C. Norlin	Coatesville CC	81
T57	Brian Bezark	Lu Lu CC	81
T57	Frederick Fung	Cedarbrook CC	81
T57	William P Lawler	Fox Hill CC	81
T57	John G. Siegrist	Manufacturers G&CC	81
T57	Murray Felzer	White Manor CC	81
T65	Charles S. McDowell	Wilmington CC	82
T65	Steve Broome	Huntingdon Valley CC	82
T65	John Cech	Riverton CC	82
T65	Vernon Kelly, Jr.	Philadelphia Cricket Club	82
T65	George J Becker, Jr.	Doylestown CC	82
T65	Ted Beringer	Philadelphia CC	82
T65	Steve Yassky	Edgmont CC	82
T65	Charles Caparo	Plymouth CC	82
T73	John C Endicott	Manufacturers G&CC	83
T73	Dennis Boyer	Berkshire CC	83
T73	Ben Sack	Edgmont CC	83
T73	Frederick J Hirsekorn	Tavistock CC	83
T73	W. Robert VanZandt	The Springhaven Club	83
T73	Bob Wicker	Little Mill CC	83
T73	Edward E Bondi	Huntingdon Valley CC	83
T80	Bill Kaufmann	Woodbury CC	84
T80	Gregory I Gaul	Merion GC	84
T80	Steve Pence	Little Mill CC	84
T80	Vincent Burns	Torresdale-Frankford CC	84
T80	William H Bayles	Phoenixville CC	84
T80	Kevin M. Scanlon	Stonewall	84
T80	A. Fred Rudy, Jr.	Lancaster CC	84
T80	Robert Davy	Medford Village CC	84
T80	John C Holsten	Aronimink GC	84
T80	Robert Harris	Blue Bell CC	84
T90	William Weihenmayer	Huntingdon Valley CC	85
T90	William A Fager	Rolling Green GC	85
T90	Daniel B Flynn	Sandy Run CC	85
T90	Richard K. Bartlett Sr	Aronimink GC	85
T90	Morris Goldenberg	Meadowlands CC	85
T90	Robert Schiller	Old York Road CC	85
T90	O. Gordon Brewer, Jr.	Pine Valley GC	85
T90	James D. Coleman	Rolling Green GC	85
T98	Thomas H. Morgan	Riverton CC	86
T98	John Snyder	Waynesborough CC	86
T98	James J. Wiley	Melrose CC	86
T98	Richard J Conway	Merion GC	86
T98	John M. Patton	Pine Hill GC	86
T98	Ron Badger	Links GC	86
T98	Joseph F Virdone	Philadelphia CC	86
T98	Bernard E Zbrzeznj	Whitemarsh Valley CC	86
T98	Joseph G. Gindhart	Greate Bay GC	86
T98	Gerald C. Kelly	Concord CC	86
T98	John MacDonald	Melrose CC	86
T109	Rick DiLanzo	Lu Lu CC	87
T109	Christopher S Frazier	Sunnybrook GC	87
T109	Art Brosius,II	DuPont CC	87
T109	George McLeod	Berkshire CC	87
T109	Gerald Owens	North Hills CC	87
T109	Jim Curvan	Phoenixville CC	87
T109	Don Neill	Talamore at Oak Terrace CC	87
T109	Robert J Brooker	Blue Bell CC	87
T117	James H Jones	Philadelphia Cricket Club	88
T117	Richard C. Greenleaf	Sunnybrook GC	88
T117	Edward Noble	Tavistock CC	88
T117	Norman T Wilde, Jr.	Philadelphia Cricket Club	88
T117	Charles C. Zall	Bala GC	88
T117	Richard F. Kenville	Burlington CC	88
T117	Thomas F Conboy	Sandy Run CC	88
T117	Jim Bruni	Springford CC	88
T125	Conrad E Gack	Doylestown CC	89
T125	Frank Setzman	Edgmont CC	89
T125	William H Brennan	Spring Ford CC	89
T125	Joseph E Hussey	Rolling Green GC	89
T125	Charles G. Johanson	Philadelphia Cricket Club	89
T125	Ray Rose	Links GC	89
T125	Francis T. Sbandi, Esq.	Edgmont CC	89
T125	John O'Sullivan	Chester Valley GC	89
T125	James C VanZandt	The Springhaven Club	89
T125	Dennis M Perna	Spring Ford CC	89
T135	Ray Rittersbach	Ashbourne CC	90
T135	William C. Jones	Hersheys Mill GC	90
T135	Ralph Neild	Edgmont CC	90
T135	Gordon Eichert	Little Mill CC	90
T139	Robert K Felter	Lancaster CC	91
T139	Edward J. David	Rolling Green GC	91
T139	Joseph Dantas	Reading CC	91
T139	Ernest F Eichenberg, III	Waynesborough CC	91
T143	Michael Zion	Meadowlands CC	92
T143	Joseph A Herzog	Sandy Run CC	92
T143	Robert Zowney	Sandy Run CC	92
T146	Jeffrey M Stopford	The Springhaven Club	93
T146	Ned Moore	Manufacturers G&CC	93
T146	Edward Godshall	Reading CC	93
T146	Joseph M Shevlin	North Hills CC	93
T146	Anthony G Roeder	St. Davids GC	93
T146	George S Thorbahn	Rolling Green GC	93
T146	Clay Von Seldeneck	Sunnybrook GC	93
T153	Jim Carrigan	Moselem Springs GC	94
T153	Donald C Hoegel	Little Mill CC	94
T153	John Long	Edgmont CC	94
T153	David Jones	Heidelberg CC	94
T153	Wade W Hersperger, Jr.	Little Mill CC	94
T153	Jay Scattergood	Reading CC	94
T153	Boyd K Mackleer	Hersheys Mill GC	94
T153	Frank DiGiacomo	Merchantville CC	94
T161	Frederick J. Weiler	Sandy Run CC	95
T161	Ted Rubin	Rolling Green GC	95
T161	James Kennedy	Aronimink GC	95
T161	Thomas V. Mohn, M.D.	Moselem Springs GC	95
T161	Paschal B De John	Concord CC	95
T161	Joseph T. Marcantognini	Silver Creek CC	95
T161	Frederick J Stark	St. Davids GC	95
T161	John DePaul	Sandy Run CC	95
T169	Bob Catini	Blue Bell CC	96
T169	R. Emmett Waldron	North Hills CC	96
T169	Richard D Turner	Concord CC	96
T169	John S. Davidson	Philadelphia Publinks	96
T169	Charles F. Loughery	Sandy Run CC	96
T174	Robert J Murphy	Whitemarsh Valley CC	97
T174	Joe Dowling	Concord CC	97
T174	David L. Steele	Lancaster CC	97
T174	William Penney	Spring Ford CC	97
T178	Dominic Ventresca	Doylestown CC	98
T178	James R Waddington	Sakima CC	98
T180	Mike Kyle	Bala GC	99
T180	Sam Arcana	Hersheys Mill GC	99
T180	George A Hilley	McCall G&CC	99
T183	Gus Pedicone	Sandy Run CC	100
T183	Morris Rorer	DuPont CC	100
T183	Stanley E Nash	Merion GC	100
186	Joseph McLane	Ashbourne CC	101
187	Chuck Lefevers	Moselem Springs GC	102
188	Aaron H Rosenzweig	Ashbourne CC	103
189	Stephen R. Cooper	Ballamor GC	104
190	Terry Radcliffe	Lancaster CC	106
191	Robert J. Cubbin	Sandy Run CC	113
192	F. Michael Sharp, Jr.	Sandy Run CC	WD
T193	William T Walsh	Philadelphia CC	WD
T193	Byron L Milner	Overbrook GC	WD
T193	Charles Zlock	Doylestown CC	WD
T193	Kenneth C Warren	Merion GC	WD
T193	George T Farley	Wildwood G&CC	WD
T193	John M. Maglio	Tavistock CC	WD
T193	William B Whitman	Berkshire CC	WD
T193	Robert S. Strobel, Sr.	North Hills CC	WD

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