Sunnybrook Golf Club pro Corey McAlarney captured the
Philadelphia Section PGA’s Match Play Championship Wednesday with a 3 and 1
victory in the final over Brendon Post, an assistant coach for the Delaware
women’s golf team, at Merion Golf Club’s West Course in the Ardmore section of
Haverford Township.
The final was the culmination of three days of matches that
began Monday with a field of 64 of the top club professionals in the
Philadelphia Section.
Wednesday’s play began with the final four players teeing
off in the semifinals.
McAlarney squared off against Jordan Gibbs, an assistant pro
at Gulph Mills Golf Club who was the runaway winner of the Philadelphia Section
PGA Championship at Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Wissahickon Course last month.
Gibbs battled McAlarney on even terms through the regulation 18 holes before
McAlarney advanced to the final by winning the 19th hole.
The other semifinal also went the distance with Post edging
Dave Quinn of The Links Golf Club, 1-up on the 18th hole.
McAlarney got the jump on Post in the final with a birdie at
the second to take a 1-up lead. The finalists halved the next five holes,
including the seventh hole, which they both birdied. McAlarney drove the green
on the short par-4 eighth hole and his two-putt birdie gave him a 2-up lead
heading to the back nine.
Post battled back, winning the 10th and 11th
holes to square the match. But McAlarney answered with birdies at the 12th
and 13th holes to restore his 2-up advantage.
Post won the par-3 15th to the cut the deficit in
half, but his poor drive on the par-5 16th led to a win on the hole
for McAlarney, making him 2-up with two holes to go. Post missed the green at
the par-3 17th hole and was forced to concede, giving McAlarney the
3 and 1 victory.
McAlarney’s road to the semifinals included a 6 and 5
victory over Cedarbrook Country Club’s Dave Roberts, a 1-up win over Mike
Meisenzhal of Shore Gate Country Club, a 1-up win over Stu Ingraham, the head
of instruction at the M Golf Range in Newtown Square and the Section’s senior
champion, and a 5 and 4 win over Huntingdon Valley Country Club’s Trevor
Bensel.
Post’s road to the semifinals included a 3 and 2 victory
over Gregg Gibb of Phoenixville Country Club, a 3 and 2 win over Whitford
Country Club assistant pro Andrew Turner, a 5 and 3 win over Eric Figueroa of
McCall Golf & Country Club and a win on the 19th hole over Jakob
Gerney of Trump National Philadelphia.
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