Chris Anderson
Club: Wilmington CC
Age: 44
Mason-Dixon record: 1^st appearance
2005 accomplishments: Tied for fourth in the Middle-Amateur Championship at Spring Mill CC … placed fifth in the Patterson Cup, finishing at 1-under-par 142 at Concord CC and Radley Run CC … advanced to the second round of the Amateur Championship at Cedarbrook CC before falling to Doug Zelner of Coatesville CC … finished in fourth place in the Silver Cross Award standings.

Clint Deibert
Club: Doylestown CC
Age: 23
Mason-Dixon record: 1^st appearance
2005 accomplishments: Defeated Tug Maude of Merion GC, 2&1, for the Amateur Championship title. Deibert’s pinpoint iron play and solid all-around game helped him to his first J. Wood Platt Trophy … posted another sensation finish at Aronimink GC where he tied for third in the Open Championship … placed fourth in the Player of the Year standings.

Brian Gillespie
Club: St. Davids GC
Age: 30
Mason-Dixon record: 5^th appearance (1-2-1 individual, 3-0-1 better-ball)
2005 accomplishments: Advanced to the semifinals of the Amateur Championship before falling to eventual champion Clint Deibert of Doylestown CC in a hard-fought match, 1-up … tied for ninth in the Silver Cross Award standings … 2001 Amateur Champion … 2003 Amateur finalist ... played in 2005 British Amateur.

Chris Lange
Club: Overbrook GC
Age: 51
Mason-Dixon record: 17^th appearance (6-8-0 individual, 8-8-0 better-ball)
2005 accomplishments: Completed career Golf Association of Philadelphia grand slam with a victory in the Middle-Amateur Championship at Spring Mill CC. Lange carded a 1-over-par 145 total in difficult conditions, outlasting the field by four strokes … qualified for a remarkable three separate USGA Championships (the Senior Open, U.S. Amateur and U.S. Mid-Am) this season … qualified for match play of the Amateur Championship … tied for 10^th in the Patterson Cup … tied for 20^th in the Open Championship.

David Liotta
Club: Whitemarsh Valley Country Club
Age: 36
Mason-Dixon record: 1^st appearance
2005 accomplishments: Advanced into the second round of the Amateur Championship before losing to Tug Maude, an eventual finalist … qualified for the U.S. Middle-Amateur Championship.

Tug Maude
Club: Merion Golf Club
Age: 22
Mason-Dixon record: 1^st appearance
2005 accomplishments: Maude defeated Conrad Von Borsig of Concord CC in an 18-hole playoff for the 2005 Patterson Cup. Maude carded an even-par 71 in the playoff at Concord, three shots clear of Von Borsig. Both Maude and Von Borsig finished at 5-under-par 138 for the two rounds of the Patterson Cup (Concord CC/Radley Run CC) to force a playoff for the first time since 2000 … In posting a 138 Patterson Cup total, Maude finished second in the Silver Cross Award standings, two strokes behind champion and close friend John Sawin of Merion GC … Maude fell in the final of the Amateur Championship to Clint Deibert of Doylestown CC, 2&1 … tied for 18^th in the Open Championship.

Jamie Slonis
Club: Tavistock Country Club
Age: 37
Mason-Dixon record: 2^nd appearance (0-1-0 individual, 0-1-0 better-ball)
2005 accomplishments: Earned medallist honors and the top seed in the Amateur Championship with a qualifying score of 2-under par 141, three shots clear of the field … tied for 10^th in the Philadelphia Open at Aronimink GC … qualified for his second U.S. Mid-Am Championship ... competed in 2005 British Mid-Am.

Glenn Smeraglio
Club: Yardley Country Club
Age: 45
Mason-Dixon record: 5^th appearance (2-2-0 individual, 2-2-0 better-ball)
2005 accomplishments: Tied for third in the Middle-Amateur Championship at Spring Mill CC … qualified for match play of the Amateur Championship with a qualifying score of 149 … qualified for the Open Championship … tied for eighth in the Silver Cross Award Standings.

Seniors
David Brookreson
Club: Huntingdon Valley Country Club
Age: 57
Mason-Dixon record: 15^th appearance (7-5-2 individual, 3-9-2 better-ball; 1^st as Senior)
2005 accomplishments: Captured first Senior Amateur Championship at Torresdale-Frankford CC and second Senior Silver Cross Award … Tied Mike Rose of Talamore at Oak Terrace CC for low gross score in the Chapman Cup at Whitemarsh Valley CC … tied for seventh in the Warner Cup at Spring Ford CC … captured the 2005 North South Senior Amateur Championship … 2004-05 Senior Player of the Year.

Frank McFadden
Club: Overbrook Golf Club
Age: 55
Mason-Dixon record: 3^rd appearance (0-2-0 individual, 1-0-1 better-ball, 1^st as Senior)
2005 accomplishments: Fell in four-man playoff for the Warner Cup title after shooting a 3-over-par 75 at Spring Ford CC … tied for third in the gross division of the Chapman Cup at Whitemarsh Valley CC … placed third in the Senior Silver Cross Award Standings … one of two senior players to advance into match play of the Amateur Championship … qualified for U.S. Senior Amateur … finished second in the Senior Player of the Year race.

Juniors
Robert Galbreath, Jr.
Club: Huntingdon Valley Country Club
Age: 14
Mason-Dixon record: 1^st appearance
2005 accomplishments: Repeated as the Junior Boys’ Champion with a par clinching putt on the final hold at Torresdale-Frankford CC. Was the first to repeat as Junior Boys’ Champion since Billy Stewart in 2000-01. Is believed to be the youngest Junior Champion in history when he won the title as a 13 year old in 2004 … registered third-place showings in the Jock MacKenzie Memorial and Harry Hammond Award standings (the Junior version of the Silver Cross) and a tie for fourth in the Christman Cup (the Junior stroke play championship) … he and partner Eric Chipin of Philmont CC fell in a playoff for the Francis X. Hussey Memorial … on the Amateur side, Galbreath impressed by advancing into match play of the Amateur Championship, qualifying for the Open Championship and tying for 19^th in the Patterson Cup.