The Philadelphia Section PGA kicked off its 2016 Omega
Player of the Year presented by Haverford Trust Co. points schedule in fine
fashion Monday with near summer-like conditions for The Callaway Golf TPD
Championship at Commonwealth National in Horsham.
And the title went to Overbrook Golf Club head pro Eric
Kennedy, who also won The Callaway Golf TPD title in 2012. It was also his only
other Philadelphia Section title.
Playing a modified Stableford scoring system, Kennedy piled
up 24 points to finish two points ahead of Bill Sautter of Philadelphia Cricket
Club. Kennedy’s three-birdie, no-bogey effort over the 6,700-yard Commonwealth National
layout might have prevailed under any kind of scoring system.
The victory makes Kennedy the early leader in the Player of
the Year points standings.
Sautter had four birdies and two bogeys in putting up 22
points. He bested the senior players in the field -- and the old guys in this
Section can play -- and has the early lead in the Robert “Skee” Riegel Senior
Player of the Year points standings.
Rick LeBeau from Gulph Mills Golf Club, a newcomer to the
Philadelphia Section, finished third with 20 points. Three players – Eric
McNamee of Golf Galaxy Montgomery, Michael Little of Lookaway Golf and Bob
Fritz of Manufacturers Golf & Country Club – finished tied for fourth with
18 points.
Dave McNabb, the head pro at Applebrook Golf Club, finished
alone in seventh place with 17 points.
A large group finished tied for eighth with 16 points,
including Eddie Perrino of Eagle Rock Resort, George Forster, the head pro at
Radnor Valley Country Club, Carson Solien of Aronimink Golf Club, Spring-Ford
Country Club head pro Rich Steinmetz, Dave Pagett of Whitemarsh Valley Country
Club, Steve Swartz of the Country Club of Harrisburg, Kevin Kraft of Bumble Bee
Hollow, Curtis Kirkpatrick of Indian Springs Golf Club and Bertus Wessels of Green
Valley Country Club.
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