| *Day One results *Senior Silver Cross results
Huntingdon Valley’s Brookreson takes
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.–David Brookreson of Huntingdon Valley CC added two more jewels to his championship belt Wednesday when he won the Golf Association of Philadelphia’s 35th Senior Amateur Championship and the Association’s Senior Silver Cross at Torresdale-Frankford Country Club (par 70, 6,224 yards). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
It was his first Senior Amateur Championship and his second straight Senior Silver Cross, both coming on the heels of his win Sept. 1 at the prestigious national North-South Senior Amateur at Pinehurst Resort & Country Club in North Carolina.
Huffing at a few missed short putts and puffing continuously on his trademark, ever present cigar, Brookreson, playing in the last threesome of the day, dueled down the back nine with his two closest competitors, Edmund Chylinski of Chester Valley GC, the first-round leader, and Michael Dougherty of Huntingdon Valley CC.
"It’s always nice to get your name on a permanent trophy," said a smiling Brookreson, a resident of Huntingdon Valley, Pa. "Last year I had a bad first round and came back strong but Craig [Scott, a close friend and the eventual winner] hung in there to win."
It was tight through 14 holes as Brookreson led Dougherty by a stroke and Chylinski by three. Then came a big break on No. 15 when he pulled a hybrid drive into the left tree-line on the short par 4, 297-yard hole, only to have the ball carom off a large oak back into the middle of the fairway.
He hit a wedge from 95 yards and drained a curling 15-footer for birdie from just in the fringe. Dougherty, playing steady golf all day, had just 80 yards in, but the wheels came off on one swing. He bladed a wedge over the green into an impossible lie in the back of a back bunker, took two to get out, and double-bogeyed the hole. It was a three-shot swing.
"I made a couple of bad swings," said Dougherty, 56, of Warrington, Pa. "I had no chance to keep that bunker shot on the green so I kept it in the bunker hoping to get up and down."
On the next hole, the 545-yard, par 5 No. 16, the long-driving Chylinski boomed a tee shot 300 yards and pulled out a fairway metal to go for the green. But he topped the shot badly into a walled water hazard 100 yards ahead and double-bogeyed the hole.
In essence, it was all over, as Brookreson parred in for the win.
It didn’t start out that well, however, as Brookreson, trailing Chylinski by a shot going into Wednesday’s second round, double-bogeyed the par 4, 394-yard 3d hole, as he missed a two-footer to go 2-over par.
Then he took charge and essentially won the title with back-to-back-to-back birdies on Nos. 6, 7 and 8. On No. 6, a 418-yard par 4, he sank an uphill nine-footer. On No. 7, the birdie came on a slippery, downhill, 25-footer with a big right to left break.
On No. 8 (par 4, 439 yards) he came up with the shot of the day, after hitting his drive badly right, past the halfway house, behind trees, to the back of the ninth tee. No problem. An 8-iron over the trees to four feet gave him his third straight red figure.
He gave a stroke back on No. 9, par 3, 172 yards, when he missed the green right and failed to hole a four-footer. But then came the back nine and the rest was history.
The Senior Silver Cross, awarded to the player with the lowest aggregate score in the Warner Cup, Chapman Cup and Senior Amateur Championship rounds, was Brookreson’s second successive and second in the two years the award has been competed for.
"Any time you can win a 72-hole tournament [like the Senior Silver Cross], it feels good inside because you know you held it together for a long period of time," said Brookreson.
|
Flight Scores |
|||||||||
|
Rd. 1 |
Rd. 2 |
||||||||
|
55 to 59 |
Gross |
Net |
Gross |
Net |
Gross |
Net |
|||
|
Name |
Club |
Total |
|||||||
|
David Brookreson |
Huntingdon Valley Country Club |
72 |
72 |
69 |
69 |
141 |
141 |
||
|
Don Donatoni |
White Manor Country Club |
76 |
76 |
70 |
70 |
146 |
146 |
||
|
Edmund Chylinski |
Chester Valley Golf Club |
71 |
71 |
75 |
75 |
146 |
146 |
||
|
Michael Dougherty |
Huntingdon Valley Country Club |
72 |
71 |
74 |
73 |
146 |
144 |
||
|
Craig Scott |
Huntingdon Valley Country Club |
74 |
73 |
73 |
72 |
147 |
145 |
||
|
William Lawler |
Fox Hill Country Club |
76 |
75 |
73 |
72 |
149 |
147 |
||
|
Andy Thompson |
Overbrook Golf Club |
75 |
77 |
75 |
77 |
150 |
154 |
||
|
Stephen Daley |
Lu Lu Country Club |
74 |
74 |
76 |
76 |
150 |
150 |
||
|
Daniel Burton |
Bent Creek Country Club |
79 |
76 |
73 |
70 |
152 |
146 |
||
|
Michael Rose |
Talamore at Oak Terrace Country Club |
73 |
72 |
79 |
78 |
152 |
150 |
||
|
Neil McDermott |
Llanerch Country Club |
76 |
72 |
76 |
72 |
152 |
144 |
||
|
Francis McFadden |
Overbrook Golf Club |
74 |
75 |
79 |
80 |
153 |
155 |
||
|
Donald Ashley |
Philadelphia Country Club |
74 |
72 |
80 |
78 |
154 |
150 |
||
|
Frank Polizzi |
Whitemarsh Valley Country Club |
79 |
78 |
75 |
74 |
154 |
152 |
||
|
Mark Shuman |
Philadelphia Country Club |
77 |
75 |
77 |
75 |
154 |
150 |
||
|
Michael Egan |
Lookaway Golf Club |
77 |
75 |
77 |
75 |
154 |
150 |
||
|
Kevin Scanlon |
Stonewall |
74 |
71 |
81 |
78 |
155 |
149 |
||
|
Charles Wilkins |
Little Mill Country Club |
81 |
82 |
75 |
76 |
156 |
158 |
||
|
Gordon Bennett |
Northampton Country Club |
81 |
76 |
75 |
70 |
156 |
146 |
||
|
Thomas Mairone |
McCall Golf & Country Club |
80 |
74 |
76 |
70 |
156 |
144 |
||
|
James Goldstein |
Commonwealth National Golf Club |
77 |
76 |
80 |
79 |
157 |
155 |
||
|
Naz Gagliardi |
Philadelphia Publinks GA |
82 |
75 |
75 |
68 |
157 |
143 |
||
|
Robert Billings |
Rolling Green Golf Club |
81 |
79 |
77 |
75 |
158 |
154 |
||
|
Ted Beringer |
Philadelphia Country Club |
82 |
79 |
76 |
73 |
158 |
152 |
||
|
Terrence Sawyer |
Yardley Country Club |
78 |
77 |
80 |
79 |
158 |
156 |
||
|
Carl Everett |
Merion Golf Club |
78 |
76 |
81 |
79 |
159 |
155 |
||
|
Edward Pappas |
Rolling Green Golf Club |
77 |
73 |
82 |
78 |
159 |
151 |
||
|
Jack Holland |
Whitford Country Club |
82 |
80 |
77 |
75 |
159 |
155 |
||
|
John Spier |
Saucon Valley Country Club |
79 |
76 |
80 |
77 |
159 |
153 |
||
|
Michael Rowland |
Lehigh Country Club |
81 |
81 |
78 |
78 |
159 |
159 |
||
|
Charles Whipple |
Huntingdon Valley Country Club |
80 |
76 |
80 |
76 |
160 |
152 |
||
|
Frank Shuman |
Lookaway Golf Club |
81 |
76 |
79 |
74 |
160 |
150 |
||
|
George May |
Manufacturers Golf & Country Club |
82 |
79 |
79 |
76 |
161 |
155 |
||
|
Wally Swiger |
Huntingdon Valley Country Club |
78 |
78 |
83 |
83 |
161 |
161 |
||
|
Thomas DiCinti |
Little Mill Country Club |
73 |
73 |
89 |
89 |
162 |
162 |
||
|
Steve Broome |
Huntingdon Valley Country Club |
82 |
74 |
81 |
73 |
163 |
147 |
||
|
Steven Owens |
Ashbourne Country Club |
84 |
74 |
79 |
69 |
163 |
143 |
||
|
Frank Treml |
Sandy Run Country Club |
85 |
83 |
79 |
77 |
164 |
160 |
||
|
John DiValentino |
Lu Lu Country Club |
78 |
70 |
86 |
78 |
164 |
148 |
||
|
Ron Ryll |
Jericho National Golf Club |
81 |
76 |
83 |
78 |
164 |
154 |
||
|
Thomas Mallouk |
Lookaway Golf Club |
83 |
79 |
81 |
77 |
164 |
156 |
||
|
Andy Goldman |
Philadelphia Cricket Club |
83 |
76 |
82 |
75 |
165 |
151 |
||
|
Dennis Perna |
Spring Ford Country Club |
82 |
75 |
83 |
76 |
165 |
151 |
||
|
James Coleman |
Rolling Green Golf Club |
82 |
76 |
83 |
77 |
165 |
153 |
||
|
Joseph Fromhartz |
Philadelphia Publinks GA |
81 |
76 |
84 |
79 |
165 |
155 |
||
|
Mark Battista |
Philadelphia Publinks GA |
79 |
74 |
86 |
81 |
165 |
155 |
||
|
Edward Yamasaki |
Philmont Country Club |
88 |
79 |
79 |
70 |
167 |
149 |
||
|
Felton Walker |
Little Mill Country Club |
88 |
80 |
79 |
71 |
167 |
151 |
||
|
James Haynie |
Lu Lu Country Club |
77 |
75 |
90 |
88 |
167 |
163 |
||
|
John Snyder |
Waynesborough Country Club |
83 |
78 |
84 |
79 |
167 |
157 |
||
|
Richard White |
Jericho National Golf Club |
83 |
77 |
84 |
78 |
167 |
155 |
||
|
Richard Pogany |
Burlington Country Club |
84 |
79 |
85 |
80 |
169 |
159 |
||
|
John Cech |
Riverton Country Club |
85 |
77 |
86 |
78 |
171 |
155 |
||
|
Len Orlando |
Concord Country Club |
87 |
79 |
84 |
76 |
171 |
155 |
||
|
Robert Harris |
Blue Bell Country Club |
86 |
82 |
85 |
81 |
171 |
163 |
||
|
Steve Kyriakodis |
Lu Lu Country Club |
85 |
79 |
86 |
80 |
171 |
159 |
||
|
William Kufta |
Jericho National Golf Club |
87 |
76 |
84 |
73 |
171 |
149 |
||
|
Daniel Flynn |
Sandy Run Country Club |
83 |
71 |
89 |
77 |
172 |
148 |
||
|
Ron Mittendorf |
Blue Bell Country Club |
86 |
78 |
86 |
78 |
172 |
156 |
||
|
William McCabe, Jr. |
McCall Golf & Country Club |
91 |
79 |
81 |
69 |
172 |
148 |
||
|
Peter Farina |
Fieldstone Golf Club |
83 |
77 |
90 |
84 |
173 |
161 |
||
|
Robert Murphy |
Wilmington Country Club |
89 |
84 |
84 |
79 |
173 |
163 |
||
|
Charles Johanson |
Philadelphia Cricket Club |
81 |
73 |
93 |
85 |
174 |
158 |
||
|
Frank Petrecco |
Yardley Country Club |
87 |
78 |
87 |
78 |
174 |
156 |
||
|
Thomas Mohr |
Coatesville Country Club |
85 |
80 |
89 |
84 |
174 |
164 |
||
|
Charles Caparo |
Plymouth Country Club |
88 |
81 |
87 |
80 |
175 |
161 |
||
|
James Wiley |
Lu Lu Country Club |
86 |
76 |
92 |
82 |
178 |
158 |
||
|
John Patton |
Pine Hill Golf Club |
89 |
82 |
89 |
82 |
178 |
164 |
||
|
Edward Bondi |
Huntingdon Valley Country Club |
87 |
81 |
92 |
86 |
179 |
167 |
||
|
Jack Batdorf |
Riverton Country Club |
92 |
83 |
87 |
78 |
179 |
161 |
||
|
Jon Mabry |
Moorestown Field Club |
93 |
87 |
87 |
81 |
180 |
168 |
||
|
Vincent Burns |
Torresdale-Frankford Country Club |
92 |
81 |
88 |
77 |
180 |
158 |
||
|
Gregory Gaul |
Merion Golf Club |
93 |
89 |
91 |
87 |
184 |
176 |
||
|
Michael McCorriston |
Jericho National Golf Club |
96 |
85 |
93 |
82 |
189 |
167 |
||
|
Ed Roberts |
Old York Road Country Club |
87 |
79 |
DQ |
DQ |
DQ |
DQ |
||
|
Matthew Bellis |
Commonwealth National Golf Club |
75 |
73 |
WD |
WD |
WD |
WD |
||
|
Steve Pence |
Little Mill Country Club |
87 |
83 |
WD |
WD |
WD |
WD |
||
|
60 and Over |
Gross |
Net |
Gross |
Net |
Gross |
Net |
|||
|
Name |
Club |
Total |
|||||||
|
Robert Housen |
Pine Valley Golf Club |
77 |
76 |
72 |
71 |
149 |
147 |
||
|
George Carr |
Running Deer Golf Club |
78 |
76 |
74 |
72 |
152 |
148 |
||
|
Jarrett Kling |
Merion Golf Club |
79 |
78 |
76 |
75 |
155 |
153 |
||
|
Richard Smith |
Philadelphia Country Club |
83 |
79 |
73 |
69 |
156 |
148 |
||
|
Charles McClaskey |
Wyncote Golf Club |
83 |
84 |
75 |
76 |
158 |
160 |
||
|
William Weinfeld |
Melrose Country Club |
79 |
71 |
79 |
71 |
158 |
142 |
||
|
Charles McDowell |
Wilmington Country Club |
81 |
79 |
78 |
76 |
159 |
155 |
||
|
Jay Howson, Jr. |
St. Davids Golf Club |
82 |
80 |
78 |
76 |
160 |
156 |
||
|
O. Gordon Brewer, Jr. |
Pine Valley Golf Club |
84 |
83 |
76 |
75 |
160 |
158 |
||
|
Terry Fair |
RiverCrest Golf Club & Preserve |
82 |
79 |
78 |
75 |
160 |
154 |
||
|
Curt Fromal |
The Springhaven Club |
77 |
72 |
84 |
79 |
161 |
151 |
||
|
David Jordan |
Woodbury Country Club |
85 |
80 |
76 |
71 |
161 |
151 |
||
|
Ken Gaskill |
Philadelphia Publinks GA |
83 |
80 |
78 |
75 |
161 |
155 |
||
|
A. Kent Weymouth, Jr. |
Lu Lu Country Club |
84 |
78 |
78 |
72 |
162 |
150 |
||
|
Thomas Holian |
Spring Ford Country Club |
82 |
75 |
81 |
74 |
163 |
149 |
||
|
Fred Olt |
Little Mill Country Club |
85 |
80 |
80 |
75 |
165 |
155 |
||
|
John MacDonald |
Melrose Country Club |
83 |
75 |
85 |
77 |
168 |
152 |
||
|
Thomas O'Rourke |
Chester Valley Golf Club |
87 |
81 |
81 |
75 |
168 |
156 |
||
|
Vernon Kelly, Jr. |
Philadelphia Cricket Club |
80 |
76 |
88 |
84 |
168 |
160 |
||
|
Don Neill |
Talamore at Oak Terrace Country Club |
85 |
78 |
84 |
77 |
169 |
155 |
||
|
Louis Pace |
Medford Village Country Club |
88 |
82 |
81 |
75 |
169 |
157 |
||
|
Herbert Gordon |
Doylestown Country Club |
91 |
86 |
79 |
74 |
170 |
160 |
||
|
John Owens |
Tavistock Country Club |
86 |
81 |
84 |
79 |
170 |
160 |
||
|
Joseph Virdone |
Philadelphia Country Club |
82 |
75 |
88 |
81 |
170 |
156 |
||
|
Byron Milner |
Overbrook Golf Club |
84 |
81 |
87 |
84 |
171 |
165 |
||
|
John Holsten |
Aronimink Golf Club |
86 |
77 |
86 |
77 |
172 |
154 |
||
|
Bill Wolhar |
Wilmington Country Club |
87 |
82 |
86 |
81 |
173 |
163 |
||
|
Jay Kocher |
Wilmington Country Club |
89 |
84 |
84 |
79 |
173 |
163 |
||
|
Robert Davy |
Medford Village Country Club |
89 |
79 |
84 |
74 |
173 |
153 |
||
|
Alan Cole |
Makefield Highlands Golf Club |
86 |
78 |
88 |
80 |
174 |
158 |
||
|
Andrew Hamilton, III |
The Springhaven Club |
86 |
78 |
90 |
82 |
176 |
160 |
||
|
Richard Kenville |
Burlington Country Club |
89 |
81 |
88 |
80 |
177 |
161 |
||
|
William Cummins |
Jericho National Golf Club |
88 |
80 |
89 |
81 |
177 |
161 |
||
|
Basil Gilfillian |
Running Deer Golf Club |
90 |
82 |
88 |
80 |
178 |
162 |
||
|
Christopher Frazier |
Sunnybrook Golf Club |
88 |
81 |
90 |
83 |
178 |
164 |
||
|
Peter Stanley |
Sunnybrook Golf Club |
88 |
82 |
91 |
85 |
179 |
167 |
||
|
Thomas Morgan |
Riverton Country Club |
86 |
78 |
93 |
85 |
179 |
163 |
||
|
Frank Blanche |
Spring Ford Country Club |
90 |
83 |
91 |
84 |
181 |
167 |
||
|
Jack Collins |
Woodbury Country Club |
93 |
82 |
88 |
77 |
181 |
159 |
||
|
Kyran Connelly |
Makefield Highlands Golf Club |
91 |
74 |
93 |
76 |
184 |
150 |
||
|
Murray Felzer |
White Manor Country Club |
88 |
78 |
97 |
87 |
185 |
165 |
||
|
Bob Wicker |
Little Mill Country Club |
96 |
89 |
90 |
83 |
186 |
172 |
||
|
Joseph Marcantognini |
Silver Creek Country Club |
96 |
85 |
92 |
81 |
188 |
166 |
||
|
Donald Hoegel |
Little Mill Country Club |
97 |
87 |
93 |
83 |
190 |
170 |
||
|
Bob Catini |
Blue Bell Country Club |
90 |
79 |
WD |
WD |
WD |
WD |
||
|
Clay Von Seldeneck |
Sunnybrook Golf Club |
87 |
78 |
WD |
WD |
WD |
WD |
||
|
Richard Turner |
Concord Country Club |
84 |
74 |
DQ |
DQ |
DQ |
DQ |
||
|
Super Senior |
Gross |
Net |
Gross |
Net |
Gross |
Net |
|||
|
Name |
Club |
Total |
|||||||
|
James Sherratt |
Old York Road Country Club |
76 |
71 |
77 |
72 |
153 |
143 |
||
|
Jim Callaghan |
Rolling Green Golf Club |
75 |
65 |
78 |
68 |
153 |
133 |
||
|
Harvey McCumber |
Wilmington Country Club |
79 |
76 |
80 |
77 |
159 |
153 |
||
|
Ben Sack |
Edgmont Country Club |
83 |
74 |
78 |
69 |
161 |
143 |
||
|
Thomas Conboy |
Sandy Run Country Club |
84 |
78 |
79 |
73 |
163 |
151 |
||
|
Warren Deakins |
Philadelphia Country Club |
82 |
75 |
81 |
74 |
163 |
149 |
||
|
Edward Strow Jr. D.D.S |
Tavistock Country Club |
78 |
69 |
88 |
79 |
166 |
148 |
||
|
Gordon Eichert |
Little Mill Country Club |
78 |
67 |
88 |
77 |
166 |
144 |
||
|
J. Wendell Outhous |
St. Davids Golf Club |
89 |
80 |
81 |
72 |
170 |
152 |
||
|
Edward Noble |
Tavistock Country Club |
91 |
82 |
82 |
73 |
173 |
155 |
||
|
Fran Tusak |
Silver Creek Country Club |
83 |
79 |
WD |
WD |
WD |
WD |
||
|
WD-withdrawal; DQ-disqualification |
|||||||||