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Saturday, September 7, 2013

Stewart wins Philly PGA's biggest prize in playoff



   Billy Stewart, who honed his game as a junior golfer at Llanerch Country Club, pocketed the biggest prize on the Philadelphia Section PGA schedule – it is believed to be the largest top prize for any PGA section event in the country – when he dropped a 12-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole at Sunnybrook Golf Club, the first hole of a four-man sudden-death playoff Tuesday.
   Earlier this summer, the 29-year-old Stewart, who is back in the area as a pro at Golf Galaxy in Devon after toiling on the Florida mini-tours for six years, grabbed the top pro prize at the Philadelphia Open, although he lost out for the title in a playoff with talented Temple sophomore Brandon Matthews.
   The top section pros teed it up Sunnybrook in the Drexel Morgan & Co. Classic, which was originally scheduled to be played in June, but was postponed by rain. Starting on the back nine, Stewart had four birdies and two bogeys to make the turn at 2-under and then added a bogey-free 2-under on Sunnybrook’s outward nine to get him to 4-under 68 for the day.
   He was tied at that figure at the end of the morning wave by Stu Ingraham, the reigning section Player of the Year and the head of instruction at the M Golf Range in Newtown Square, and Ryan Breidegam of Brookside Country Club.
   Ingraham offset three bogeys with seven birdies, including a chip-in for two at the par-3 eighth hole.
   It didn’t look like 4-under was going to be good enough to grab the lucrative top prize of $75,000 as Bill Sautter of Philadelphia Cricket Club took the lead during the afternoon wave. But Sautter faltered down the stretch and joined the three others for a playoff.
   In the playoff, Breidegam’s birdie chip rattled the pin, but stayed out and Ingraham and Sautter left their birdie chances short before Stewart made his birdie putt count.
   “This was such an exciting day for me,” said Stewart, who had left the course after the morning wave. “After finishing I wasn’t  sure what to do with myself. I went home and tried to keep busy to stay distracted, but I found myself checking the leaderboard every 10 minutes. I hope this win will help me further my career as a professional in the Philadelphia Section.”
   It was the first Philadelphia Section win for Stewart and there are 75,000 reasons why this one is better than any to make your first victory.

Thompson comes up short in playoff

   Overbrook Golf Club’s Ray Thompson just missed adding a third Golf Association of Philadelphia Senior Championship to his resume Wednesday at Huntingdon Valley Country Club, but a third Senior Silver Cross award was a nice consolation prize.
   Thompson fired a 1-under 69 over the difficult 6,480-yard, par-70 Huntingdon Valley layout in Wednesday’s second round for a 4-over 144 total. But Thomas Bartolacci Jr. of Saucon Valley Country Club added a 72 to his opening-round 72 and caught Thompson at 4-over.
   Bartolacci then birdied the 374-yard, par-4 first hole, sinking a 15-foot putt, to claim the title. It was the second Senior Amateur victory for Bartolacci, who won at The Springhaven Club in 2008.
   “I figured with the 1-under on the front, I had a shot,” Thompson told the GAP website. “The course was playing hard, I thought. The wind was blowing. I figured 3- or 4-over was going to be close. I figured I’d be right there. I was grinding hard.”
   Still, Thompson’s Senior Amateur score, combined with his Warner Cup and Chapman Cup scores earlier this summer, gave him a 287 total, five shots clear of reigning three-time GAP senior Player of the Year Chip Lutz, in the battle for the Silver Cross. It was the 61-year-old Thompson’s third senior Silver Cross, having taken it previously in 2007 and 2011.
   “That was important to me,” said Thompson, who is headed for the U.S. Senior Amateur in North Carolina later this month. “That was my goal today. I didn’t think I had a chance starting out  to win the tournament. I said if I could win the Silver Cross, that was really my goal.”
   As usual, Overbrook was well-represented at the top of the leaderboard as Thompson’s brother and fellow Overbrook member Andy (72-75) finished tied for fourth at 147 and Frank McFadden (77-74) was in a large group tied for 10th at 151.
   Rolling Green Golf Club’s Robert Billings (79-74) was at 153, Mike Owsik (79-76), the proprietor of the M Golf Range in Newtown Square, and Michael Quinn (75-80) of Edgmont Country Club were at 155, J. Kirk Luntey (80-76) of Merion Golf Club was a 156, Andrew Harmer (75-82) of The Springhaven Club and Jon Lavin (79-78) of Rolling Green Golf Club were at 157, and Rich Thon (77-81) of Springhaven was at 158.

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