Overbrook piled up 28.5 points in a format that included foursome matches in the morning and singles matches in the afternoon. Commonwealth National G.C. was second with 14.5 points, Philadelphia Cricket Club was third with 17 and Tavistock C.C. was fourth with 12.
It was Overbrook’s 15th outright team crown, three more than Huntingdon Valley owns. Overbrook also shared two other team titles.
“When we got in the queue four years ago to host this event, we wondered if we would still be able to compete health- and ability-wise when the date of 2012 finally came around,” Overbrook captain Oscar Mestre told the GAP website.
"Fast-forwarding to today, it appears that the veterans’ age- and experience-wise still can play and our youth are more than ready to be the new leaders. But honestly, three or four years ago, and as recently as the qualifier a month ago, there were no guarantees that we would even qualify for the final we were to host.”
At 52, Mestre is actually the youngest of Overbrook’s old guard that includes Chris Lange, 57, Ray Thompson, 60, Frank McFadden, 62, and Ray’s older brother Andy Thompson, 63.
Overbrook’s youngsters include Lange’s son, 28-year-old Chris Lange Jr. and the Kania brothers, 23-year-old James Jr. and 21-year-old Michael.
James Kania Jr., a former University of Kentucky standout, was the 2005-06 Daily Times Player of the Year at The Haverford School. Michael, who followed his brother to Kentucky before transferring to Villanova and leading the Main Line Wildcats to back-to-back third-place finishes in the Big East Tournament, is a two-time Haverford School All-Delco. Michael has another year of eligibility left at Villanova.
Berman ties for 11th at Pinehurst
Berman, a junior, finished in a tie for 11th with a 213 total in the 54-hole event. He opened with a 73 at the Centennial Pinehurst No. 8 course and followed with a pair of 70s at Pinehurst No. 5 and Pinehurst No. 4, respectively.
Berman’s two-week stay in North Carolina began last week when he finished in a tie for 57th in the American Junior Golf Association’s (AJGA) Golf Pride Junior Classic at the Mid Pines Inn and G.c. in Southern Pines, N.C.
Berman had rounds of 73, 75 and 72 for a 220 total against a strong AJGA field.
Soeth comes on strong
The AJGA was a little closer to home this week with the playing of the William Penn Junior Championship, held at the Stonewall Links in northern Chester County.
Marple Newtown’s Sam Soeth teed it up in the event that concluded Thursday. After struggling with an opening-round 82, Soeth posted a 74 and a 75 for a 231 total that left him a tie for 41st.
Senior Four-Man Team
The Springhaven Club foursome of Andrew Harmer, Curt Fromal, John Turner and Rich Thon carded a 6-under 138 total at Royersford C.C. Thursday to finish in a tie for second in the Golf Association of Philadelphia’s Senior Four-Man Team event.
The quartet finished second by a shot to a strong foursome of Art Jacoby and John Hubbert III from Commonwealth National G.C., David Brookerson from Huntingdon Valley C.C. and Alan Van Horn from Sandy Run C.C.
Jack Quinn from Aronimink G.C. and the McCall G.&C.C. trio of Jonn Stein, Rick Bunn and William McCabe Jr. took top honors in the net scoring in a match of cards after they posted a 127 total. The net winners had posted a 145 gross total, good for a ninth-place finish overall.
Major developments
The 2013 U.S. Open tees off at Merion Golf Club’s East Course in 335 days. Meanwhile, we’re right in the middle of major season for the summer of 2012 with a major tournament pretty much every weekend on one of the tours. Here’s some of the recent highlights.
The AT&T National was played for the second and final time in its two-year run at Aronimink G.C. in the week leading up to the Fourth of July last year.
Apparently CBS made a request to ease up on the setup of the Donald Ross gem for Saturday’s third round. What followed was some pretty remarkable fireworks, led by Nick Watney, who threw a nifty little 62 up on the board on his way to the title.
A guy who I was only vaguely aware of, Webb Simpson, was one of the players who got in on the fun, firing a 64 on his way to a tie for eighth.
The rest of the summer, that name just kept popping up and he was one of the hottest players on the PGA Tour by the time the FedEx “playoffs” got under way.
So it was hardly surprising to see him gut out a pair of weekend 68s at The Olympic Club that made him the man who will be the defending champion when the U.S. Open comes to Delco next year.
It was hard not to root for Jim Furyk, who was born in Chester County Hospital and whose dad was a club pro at both West Chester C.C. and Edgmont C.C. before putting down more permanent roots in Lancaster County.
But Furyk just couldn’t bring it home on the back nine at Olympic and Simpson’s birdie barrage in the middle of his final round was good enough to hold off two Open champions, Furyk and Graham McDowell.
If Simpson was comfortable at Aronimink, Merion’s famed East Course should suit his game as well.
It’s hard to imagine a better Pennsylvania story than a guy from District One, Plymouth-Whitemarsh to be exact, holding off Tom Lehman and Mark Calcavecchia at Fox Chapel C.C. in suburban Pittsburgh to capture a Champions Tour major, the Senior Players Championship.
But that’s exactly what Joe Daley did a couple of weeks ago. His victory was overshadowed by that Tiger fella winning the AT&T National in its return from Aronimink to Congressional, but Daley was rock solid in staring down guys with major-championship credentials on their resumes to win the tournament.
Maybe he was an “overnight sensation” to some, but Daley just kept playing anywhere he could — minitours, Asia, Nationwide (oh yeah, that became the Web.com Tour since my last blog post), you name it, he’s played it — and he was more than ready when his major moment arrived.
Joe Daley is proof of something a lot of us who follow the game closely already know: There are so many good players out there, it’s ridiculous. I know, the people who seek advertising revenue for their TV broadcasts only care what Tiger and Phil and Rory are doing, but a lot of us get a kick out of watching a Joe Daley do his thing.
Na Yeon Choi came into the U.S. Women’s Open last weekend at Blackwolf Run as one of the top-five ranked women in the world.
Then the 24-year-old South Korean put on a putting display during a brilliant third-round 65 that made you realize why she is such a great player.
For the life of me, I can’t understand why more people, especially people who enjoy golf, don’t pay more attention to the LPGA.
Yes, there are a lot of Asian women at the highest level of the game. But Choi, in particular, has made an extra effort to speak English, to make people more aware of the winning personality she brings with her top-level game.
When she’s playing, Choi seems utterly unflappable. Her expression remains the same whether she just made birdie or double bogey. But there was no mistaking her smile when she finally claimed the biggest prize in women’s golf.
She’s hardly physically imposing. But make no mistake about it, Na Yeon Choi can really play.
Apparently CBS made a request to ease up on the setup of the Donald Ross gem for Saturday’s third round. What followed was some pretty remarkable fireworks, led by Nick Watney, who threw a nifty little 62 up on the board on his way to the title.
A guy who I was only vaguely aware of, Webb Simpson, was one of the players who got in on the fun, firing a 64 on his way to a tie for eighth.
The rest of the summer, that name just kept popping up and he was one of the hottest players on the PGA Tour by the time the FedEx “playoffs” got under way.
So it was hardly surprising to see him gut out a pair of weekend 68s at The Olympic Club that made him the man who will be the defending champion when the U.S. Open comes to Delco next year.
It was hard not to root for Jim Furyk, who was born in Chester County Hospital and whose dad was a club pro at both West Chester C.C. and Edgmont C.C. before putting down more permanent roots in Lancaster County.
But Furyk just couldn’t bring it home on the back nine at Olympic and Simpson’s birdie barrage in the middle of his final round was good enough to hold off two Open champions, Furyk and Graham McDowell.
If Simpson was comfortable at Aronimink, Merion’s famed East Course should suit his game as well.
It’s hard to imagine a better Pennsylvania story than a guy from District One, Plymouth-Whitemarsh to be exact, holding off Tom Lehman and Mark Calcavecchia at Fox Chapel C.C. in suburban Pittsburgh to capture a Champions Tour major, the Senior Players Championship.
But that’s exactly what Joe Daley did a couple of weeks ago. His victory was overshadowed by that Tiger fella winning the AT&T National in its return from Aronimink to Congressional, but Daley was rock solid in staring down guys with major-championship credentials on their resumes to win the tournament.
Maybe he was an “overnight sensation” to some, but Daley just kept playing anywhere he could — minitours, Asia, Nationwide (oh yeah, that became the Web.com Tour since my last blog post), you name it, he’s played it — and he was more than ready when his major moment arrived.
Joe Daley is proof of something a lot of us who follow the game closely already know: There are so many good players out there, it’s ridiculous. I know, the people who seek advertising revenue for their TV broadcasts only care what Tiger and Phil and Rory are doing, but a lot of us get a kick out of watching a Joe Daley do his thing.
Na Yeon Choi came into the U.S. Women’s Open last weekend at Blackwolf Run as one of the top-five ranked women in the world.
Then the 24-year-old South Korean put on a putting display during a brilliant third-round 65 that made you realize why she is such a great player.
For the life of me, I can’t understand why more people, especially people who enjoy golf, don’t pay more attention to the LPGA.
Yes, there are a lot of Asian women at the highest level of the game. But Choi, in particular, has made an extra effort to speak English, to make people more aware of the winning personality she brings with her top-level game.
When she’s playing, Choi seems utterly unflappable. Her expression remains the same whether she just made birdie or double bogey. But there was no mistaking her smile when she finally claimed the biggest prize in women’s golf.
She’s hardly physically imposing. But make no mistake about it, Na Yeon Choi can really play.
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