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Thursday, June 7, 2018

Mestre, Irey are real winners in Chapman Memorial Cup


   There are so many good players at Overbrook Golf Club, you sometimes forget about Oscar Mestre.
   The 58-year-old Newtown Square resident found a swing thought in a quick practice session at Overbrook after struggling to an 82 in the U.S. Senior Open qualifier at Indian Valley Country Club Monday.
   It worked well enough to enable Mestre to put together a 1-under-par 70 over the 6,563-yard, par-71 Commonwealth National Golf Club layout Wednesday and earn a three-shot victory in the Golf Association of Philadelphia’s Frank H. Chapman Memorial Cup (Gross), his first individual win in a GAP senior event.
   One of Mestre’s fellow Overbrook senior standouts who has made a habit of hoarding GAP senior trophies over the years, Ray Thompson, was one of four players who finished tied for second at 2-over 73.
   Glenn Smeraglio of LuLu Country Club, who captured the first GAP senior major of the season in the Warner Cup at Concord Country Club, was also in group tied for second at 73. Two members of Little Mill Country Club’s talented bunch, Thomas Hyland and Joseph Roeder, rounded out the foursome tied for second.
   Mestre’s round began quietly enough as he hit a 9-iron to three feet at the 142-yard, par-3 fourth and converted the birdie. Another 9-iron from a bunker 145 yards away at the par-5 11th finished 12 feet from the hole and he made the putt to get it to 2-under.
   But he yanked a short par putt for bogey at the 12th and had trouble putting it behind him. His ball twice caromed off trees on the par-4 13th and he had to gather himself enough to save double bogey. Despite those two disastrous holes, he was still only 1-over.
   Back-to-back birdies at 14 and 15 – 7-irons in both cases, to 12 feet on 14 and eight feet on 15 – righted the ship. A bogey at the par-3 16th dropped Mestre back to even-par, but a wedge from 100 yards finished six feet from the hole on 17 and he converted the birdie try to get back under par.
   Four more players – Joe Campisano of Five Ponds Golf Club, Joseph Russo of Running Deer Golf Club, Alan Wagenschnur of Loch Nairn Golf Club and Steven Walczak of Wilmington Country Club – were another shot behind the quartet tied for second as each posted a 3-over 74.
   Another foursome rounded out the top 10 as they finished tied for 10th at 4-over 75. Included in that group were Brian Corbett of the Country Club of Scranton, Gary Daniels of Applebrook Golf Club, Craig Kliewer of Honeybrook Golf Club and David West of the Philadelphia Publinks Golf Association.
   Another longtime fixture on the GAP senior circuit, Lookaway Golf Club’s Roc Irey, earned his first GAP individual title by winning the Chapman Cup Super-Senior division with a 1-under 70 over a Commonwealth National layout that played to 6,071 yards for the older guys.
   More unbelievable than the fact that it was the first individual win for the 65-year-old Irey was the circumstances under which he did it. You see, Irey has had two surgeries for prostate cancer in the last four months and recently found out he’ll have to undergo radiation therapy, which starts in two months.
   So what does the guy do? Goes out and shoots 1-under and beats Buck Jones, a Philadelphia Publinks entry, by a shot. Jones, the winner of the Super-Senior Silver Cross Award last year, matched par with his 71.
   “What else can you do? You go out and play golf,” Irey, a Furlong resident, told the GAP website. “The doctors have told me to take it easy and not to pick up a club at times. But I come out here and play with my buddies. In the Warner Cup, I wasn’t allowed to play, but I came out anyway. I was just chipping and bumping the ball around. That’s all.”
   Yeah, he chipped and bumped it to a 4-over 75 at Concord to finish tied for second.
   An original member for four years when Commonwealth National first opened in 1990, Irey used his local knowledge to hit 17 greens in regulation.
   Irey was 1-over for his round when he hit an 8-iron to 20 feet on the 159-yard, par-3 16th and saw the birdie putt drop and then wedged his approach from 80 yards away at the short par-4 17th to eight feet and knocked that putt in to get it in red figures. A winner? I’d say so, on quite a few levels.
   A couple of other tough customers in the deep GAP Super-Senior division, Rolling Green Golf Club’s Robert Billings and Saucon Valley Country Club’s Robin McCool shared third place, each posting a 2-over 73.




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