Jack Brennan of Mountain View Country Club grabbed the lead
with a 1-under-par 69 in the opening round of the Philadelphia Senior PGA
Professional Championship Monday at St. Davids Golf Club.
The top eight finishers in the Philadelphia Senior PGA Professional
Championship will earn a trip to the Senior PGA Professional Championship Nov.
17 to 20 at the PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
Brennan had two birdies and a bogey over the par-70 Donald
Ross design in Tredyffrin Township. He’ll take a one-shot lead into Tuesday’s
second round.
Don Allan of Burlington Country Club and Stu Ingraham, the
head of instruction at the M Golf Range in Newtown Square, are tied for second
at even-par 70. Allan overcame an early double bogey with four birdies. Ingraham
bogeyed the first hole and rattled off 15 straight pars before getting back to
even with a birdie at the par-3 17th hole.
Ingraham qualified for last year’s Senior PGA Professional
Championship at the Bayonet and Black Horse in Seaside, Calif. and played well
enough there to punch his ticket to the Senior PGA Championship, a Champions
Tour major held at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor, Mich. in May. Ingraham then
made the cut at the Senior PGA.
Five players are tied for fourth at 1-over 71, including Bill
Sautter of Philadelphia Cricket Club, Terry Hertzog of the Country Club of
York, Jim Bromley of Play-a-round Golf, Bob Lennon of Wilmington Country Club
and Brian Kelly of Bucknell Golf Club.
Sitting just outside of the cut to advance to the Senior PGA
Professional Championship are five more players tied for ninth at 2-over 72.
Among that group is Radnor Valley Country Club head pro George Forster, who is
trying to extend his streak of 10 straight trips to the Senior Club Pro.
Also in that group is Jack Connelly, a past president of the
PGA of America who is working out of the North Hills Country Club pro shop.
Rounding out the fivesome at 2-over are Dave McNabb of Applebrook Golf Club, Dave
Quinn of The Links Golf Club and John Appleget of Wildwood Golf & Country
Club.
Good to see Ed Dougherty teeing it up at St. Davids. Owner
of two Champion Tour victories and nearly $6 million in earnings on the senior
circuit, Dougherty posted a 6-over 76 Monday.
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