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| (From left to right): Jack Hubbert, III, David Brookreson, Alan Van Horn & Arthur Jacoby |
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Past champions unite to win Senior Four-Man Team
ROYERSFORD, Pa. — Alan Van Horn of Sandy Run Country Club equipped his armor in preparation of the Golf Association of Philadelphia’s 23rd Senior Four-Man Team. Armor as in former golf champions David Brookreson of Huntingdon Valley Country Club (1991 GAP Amateur Champion), John Hubbert, III of Galloway National Golf Club (1974 Pennsylvania Golf Association Junior Champion) and Arthur Jacoby of Commonwealth National Golf Club (1975 GAP Amateur Champion).
Collectively, the foursome enforced birdies early and protected its subpar scorecard Thursday at Spring Ford Country Club (par 72, 6,288 yards). Van Horn and company carded a 7-under-par 137 total to top the 39-team field. Team scores are determined using the two best balls of four.
“We were never in the threat of losing a shot, except on the first hole [the team’s lone bogey],” Jacoby, 65, of Wyncote, Pa., said.
“We had a lot of putts within close distance,” Van Horn, 62, of Ambler, Pa., said. “We were never in any real trouble.”
Starting on the back nine, the team shelled out its first red figure on the par 4, 350-yard 11th hole. Van Horn smacked a sand wedge 87 yards to four feet. Brookreson, 63, of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., rolled in an uphill seven-footer for birdie on No. 12 (par 4, 372 yards). The team protected its 2 under with a string of five pars before finding a pair of birdies on the challenging par 5, 487-yard 18th hole. Van Horn hit a wedge 50 yards to 10 feet; Hubbert a wedge into kick-in range.
As Jacoby indicated, the team’s lone blemish occurred on the downhill No. 1 (par 4, 417 yards). Brookreson and Hubbert sprayed their drives left and couldn’t contribute respective pars. Van Horn reached the green in regulation, but three-putted from 35 feet above the flagstick. With a pair of par 5s on the horizon, the team went on a birdie bonanza. Both Brookreson and Hubbert nestled tight wedges to three feet for a pair of 4s on No. 5 (514 yards). The two, along with Jacoby, surrounded the No. 9 (517 yards) flagstick with manageable birdie opportunities. Van Horn, however, came up short of the green with a 5-rescue from 163 yards. Playing first, he displayed his champion-esque touch with a spectacular chip-in birdie. Jacoby then validated a crisp 145-yard 7-iron shot with a 10-footer for birdie, sealing an essential 7 under on the team’s scorecard.
Brookreson and Jacoby served as co-captains on Temple University’s golf team in 1970 and have remained good friends since. Hubbert, too, is a Temple alum who grew up at Manufacturers Golf & Country Club. Thursday marked his first GAP event and Senior Division debut.
“It was fun. I had a great time,” Hubbert, 55, of Brigantine, N.J., said. “It was a hard golf course, but a very good golf course. We had a good team. We had a lot of birdie putts that we didn’t make.”
Turns out the foursome didn’t need them after all.
In a match of cards, McCall Golf & Country Club’s Rick Bunn, William McCabe, Jr. and Jon Stein, along with Aronimink Golf Club’s Jack Quinn edged Greate Bay Country Club’s William Care, Gregg Gipp, Paul Koelling and Mike Miklinevich to win the Net Division with a 127 total.
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Gross
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Name,
club
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Score
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David
Brookreson, Huntingdon Valley Country Club; John Hubbert, III, Galloway National Golf Club; Arthur Jacoby,
Commonwealth National Golf Club & Alan Van Horn, Sandy Run Country Club
|
137
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Curt
Fromal, Andrew Harmer, Rich Thon & John Turner,
The Springhaven Club
|
138
|
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George
May, James Muller, Richard Lownes & Edward
Roberts, Manufacturers Golf & Country Club
|
138
|
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Alan
Bernabei, Herbert Gordon, Alan Roatche
& David Smith, Doylestown Country Club
|
139
|
|
Michael
Anton, Roc Irey, Bob Majczan
& Thomas Mallouk, Lookaway
Golf Club
|
140
|
|
Mark
Szilagyi, Applebrook Golf
Club; James Prendergast, Philadelphia Publinks GA;
Richard Custer & Greg Gottshall, Brookside
Country Club
|
140
|
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Don
Donatoni, White Manor Country Club; Carl Everett,
Merion Golf Club; Neil McDermott, Llanerch Country
Club & Michael Rose, Talamore Country Club
|
141
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William
Care, Gregg Gipp, Paul Koelling
& Mike Miklinevich, Greate
Bay Country Club
|
144
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Jack
Quinn, Aronimink Golf Club; Rick Bunn, William
McCabe, Jr. & Jon Stein, McCall Golf & Country Club
|
145
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Charles
Caparo, C. Michael Conway, Michael Giambrone & Ernest Martinelli,
Plymouth Country Club
|
146
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Buck
Jones, Philadelphia Publinks GA; Donald Ashley,
Michael Nilon & Richard Smith, Philadelphia
Country Club
|
147
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|
Deane
Haase, Dan Lamb, Michael Quinn & Tim Ungrady, Edgmont Country Club
|
147
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Bill
Narozanick, Moselem
Springs Golf Club; Thomas Hyland, Robert Lodovici
& Joe Olin, Little Mill Country Club
|
147
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|
Gordon
Jamieson, Arthur Kania, Jr., Robert Roehr & Paul Suckow, Merion
Golf Club
|
147
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Thomas
Fuhs, Spring Ford CC; Yong Choe,
James O'Brien & Jim O'Connor, Spring Ford Country Club
|
147
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John
Cech, George Gepp, John
Raleigh & Robert Thornton, Jr., Riverton Country Club
|
150
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Neil
Donovan, Richard Genoni, Stephen Negrotti & John Snyder, Waynesborough
Country Club
|
151
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Nicholas
Wanck, Huntingdon Valley Country Club; Jack
Hoffman, Penn Oaks Golf Club; Ed Brzezowski & John Hollingsworth, Sr.,
Concord Country Club
|
151
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Steve
Backstrom, Tom DiCinti,
Fred Hauber & Dennis McCarty, Little Mill
Country Club
|
152
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Bill
Doherty, Joseph Dougher, Richard Krauss & Gary
Moran, Manufacturers Golf & Country Club
|
152
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Donald
Beck, John McCourt, Robert Schiller & Gerald Strock,
Old York Road Country Club
|
152
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Wayne
Diluigi, Jay McMenamin,
Tom Paul & Fred Spratt, Running Deer Golf Club
|
153
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Leonard
DiDomenico, Alexander Maguire, Sr., Joseph Major
& Pat Romano, Brookside Country Club
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153
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Jim
Chojnacki, John Dandrea,
Bernard Kelly & Fred Olt, Little Mill Country
Club
|
154
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Edward
Birdsall, Tavistock Country
Club; Edward Hennessy, Bert Minnella & Les Runkewich, Medford Village Country Club
|
156
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John
Lukens, Thomas McGlinchy, W. Dale Newpher & Rich Tofani, Jr.,
Sandy Run Country Club
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156
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Paul
Morris, Burlington Country Club; Bernie Bieg, Mike
Duffy & Glenn Volpe, Running Deer Golf Club
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156
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William
Friel, Squires Golf Club; Jack Endicott, Ned Moore
& Rick Rutter, Manufacturers Golf & Country
Club
|
157
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Richard
Alessi, Sr., Scott Fleming, William Knecht, Jr. & William Woolard,
Jr., Llanerch Country Club
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158
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Bob
Silsbe, Downingtown Country Club; Paul Yeakel, Waynesborough Country
Club; David Gale & Kevin Scanlon, Stonewall
|
160
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George
Gibson, George Manos, J. Thomas Rush & Larry Sacks, Riverton Country Club
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161
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Bob
Abramski, Harold Cooperstein,
Ronald Hooven & Hal Morris, Talamore
Country Club
|
162
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Howard
Dempster, Jr., Robert Dicerbo,
George Macort, Jr. & George Maguire, Old York
Road Country Club
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163
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Jerry
Beil, John McKee, Chris Meyer & Louis Riggs,
Manufacturers Golf & Country Club
|
164
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Jack
Collins & Joseph LaGrossa, Galloway National
Golf Club; Theodore Flocco, Jr. & J. Ronald
Giordano, Tavistock Country Club
|
165
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Bob
Harris & Martin Sherman, Blue Bell Country Club; Robert Felter & Terry Radcliffe, Lancaster Country Club
|
165
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Jack
Bailey, James Barron, Robert Dzielak & John
Groves, Hartefeld National
|
165
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Rich
Bernat, Bob Cerulli, John
DePaul & Joseph Herzog, Sandy Run Country Club
|
166
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Jeff
Neely, John Smith, Robert Szczypkowski & Mark
Weinberg, Lookaway Golf Club
|
167
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|
|
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Net
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|
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Name,
club
|
Score
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Jack
Quinn, Aronimink Golf Club; Rick Bunn, William
McCabe, Jr. & Jon Stein, McCall Golf & Country Club
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127
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William
Care, Gregg Gipp, Paul Koelling
& Mike Miklinevich, Greate
Bay Country Club
|
127
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George
May, James Muller, Richard Lownes & Edward
Roberts, Manufacturers Golf & Country Club
|
128
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Thomas
Fuhs, Spring Ford Country Club; Yong Choe, James O'Brien & Jim O'Connor, Penn Oaks GC
|
130
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William
Friel, Squires Golf Club; Jack Endicott, Ned Moore
& Rick Rutter, Manufacturers Golf & Country
Club
|
130
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David
Brookreson, Huntingdon Valley Country Club; John Hubbert, III, Galloway National Golf Club; Arthur Jacoby,
Commonwealth National Golf Club & Alan Van Horn, Sandy Run Country Club
|
131
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Curt
Fromal, Andrew Harmer, Rich Thon & John Turner,
The Springhaven Club
|
131
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Michael
Anton, Roc Irey, Bob Majczan
& Thomas Mallouk, Lookaway
Golf Club
|
131
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Charles
Caparo, C. Michael Conway, Michael Giambrone & Ernest Martinelli,
Plymouth Country Club
|
131
|
|
Neil
Donovan, Richard Genoni, Stephen Negrotti & John Snyder, Waynesborough
Country Club
|
131
|
|
Donald
Beck, John McCourt, Robert Schiller & Gerald Strock,
Old York Road Country Club
|
131
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Wayne
Diluigi, Jay McMenamin,
Tom Paul & Fred Spratt, Running Deer Golf Club
|
131
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|
Richard
Custer & Greg Gottshall, Brookside Country
Club; Mark Szilagyi, Applebrook
Golf Club & James Prendergast, Philadelphia Publinks
GA
|
132
|
|
Alan
Bernabei, Herbert Gordon, Alan Roatche
& David Smith, Doylestown Country Club
|
133
|
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Nicholas
Wanck, Huntingdon Valley Country Club; Jack
Hoffman, Penn Oaks Golf Club; Ed Brzezowski & John Hollingsworth, Sr.,
Concord Country Club
|
133
|
|
Edward
Birdsall, Tavistock
Country Club; Edward Hennessy, Bert Minnella &
Les Runkewich, Medford Village Country Club
|
133
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|
Richard
Alessi, Sr., Scott Fleming, William Knecht, Jr. & William Woolard,
Jr., Llanerch Country Club
|
133
|
|
Howard
Dempster, Jr., Robert Dicerbo,
George Macort, Jr. & George Maguire, Old York
Road Country Club
|
133
|
|
Steve
Backstrom, Tom DiCinti,
Fred Hauber & Dennis McCarty, Little Mill
Country Club
|
134
|
|
Jim
Chojnacki, John Dandrea,
Bernard Kelly & Fred Olt, Little Mill Country
Club
|
134
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|
John
Lukens, Thomas McGlinchy, W. Dale Newpher & Rich Tofani, Jr.,
Sandy Run Country Club
|
134
|
|
Gordon
Jamieson, Arthur Kania, Jr., Robert Roehr & Paul Suckow, Merion
Golf Club
|
135
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Bill
Doherty, Joseph Dougher, Richard Krauss & Gary
Moran, Manufacturers Golf & Country Club
|
135
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John
Cech, George Gepp, John
Raleigh & Robert Thornton, Jr., Riverton Country Club
|
136
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Deane
Haase, Dan Lamb, Michael Quinn & Tim Ungrady, Edgmont Country Club
|
137
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Paul
Morris, Burlington Country Club; Bernie Bieg, Mike
Duffy & Glenn Volpe, Running Deer Golf Club
|
137
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Don
Donatoni, White Manor Country Club; Carl Everett,
Merion Golf Club; Neil McDermott, Llanerch Country
Club & Michael Rose, Talamore Country Club
|
138
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Rich
Bernat, Bob Cerulli, John
DePaul & Joseph Herzog, Sandy Run Country Club
|
138
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Jeff
Neely, John Smith, Robert Szczypkowski & Mark
Weinberg, Lookaway Golf Club
|
138
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Buck
Jones, Philadelphia Publinks GA; Donald Ashley,
Michael Nilon & Richard Smith, Philadelphia
Country Club
|
139
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Jerry
Beil, John McKee, Chris Meyer & Louis Riggs,
Manufacturers Golf & Country Club
|
139
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Bill
Narozanick, Moselem
Springs Golf Club; Thomas Hyland, Robert Lodovici
& Joe Olin, Little Mill Country Club
|
139
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George
Gibson, George Manos, J. Thomas Rush & Larry Sacks, Riverton Country Club
|
141
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Jack
Collins & Joseph LaGrossa, Galloway National
Golf Club; Theodore Flocco, Jr. & J. Ronald
Giordano, Tavistock Country Club
|
141
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|
Bob
Harris & Martin Sherman, Blue Bell Country Club; Robert Felter & Terry Radcliffe, Lancaster Country Club
|
141
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Leonard
DiDomenico, Alexander Maguire, Sr., Joseph Major
& Pat Romano, Brookside Country Club
|
143
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Bob
Silsbe, Downingtown Country Club; Paul Yeakel, Waynesborough Country
Club; David Gale & Kevin Scanlon, Stonewall
|
143
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Bob
Abramski, Harold Cooperstein,
Ronald Hooven & Hal Morris, Talamore
Country Club
|
143
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Jack
Bailey, James Barron, Robert Dzielak & John
Groves, Hartefeld National
|
150
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