Applebrook Golf Club head pro Dave McNabb led four players
representing the Philadelphia Section PGA into the weekend in the Senior PGA
Professional Championship, supported by GolfAdvisor.com and John Deere, at the
PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie.
McNabb, who captured the Philadelphia Senior PGA
Professional Championship in August at White Manor Country Club, added a
1-under-par 71 at the Wanamaker Course Friday to his opening-round 69 at the
Ryder Course for a 4-under 140 total that left him among the group tied for 13th
after 36 holes.
The top 35 finishers in the Senior PGA Professional
Championship earn a trip to the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship, a PGA Tour
Champions major which tees off May 23 at Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford,
N.Y.
Three other Philadelphia Section pros made the 36-hole cut
to the low 90 and ties which fell at 2-over 146. There will be another cut to
the low 70 and ties following Saturday’s third round. The weekend rounds will
all be played at the Wanamaker Course.
McNabb trails 36-hole leader Dan Olsen, an assistant pro at
Quail Creek Country Club in Robinson, Ill., by nine shots. OIsen was one of
three players who fired an opening round of 8-under 64 at the Ryder Course
Thursday.
With the notorious South Florida winds kicking up, Olsen
carded a 5-under 67 at the Wanamaker Course for a Senior PGA Professional
Championship 36-hole record 13-under 131 total. The old record was 134.
Starting on No. 10 at the Wanamaker Course, McNabb made a
bogey on the 14th and a birdie on the 16th to go even-par
on the incoming nine. Birdies at the second and fourth holes got him to 2-under
for the round before he made a bogey at the sixth. McNabb got it back to
2-under with a birdie at the seventh before surrendering a shot on the ninth
with a finishing bogey.
Also making the cut out of the Philadelphia Section were
Philmont Country Club’s Dave Quinn, who is tied for 32nd at 2-under
142 after adding an even-par 72 at the Ryder Course to his opening-round 70 at
the Wanamaker Course, John Pillar, the director of golf at the Country Club at
Woodloch Springs who is tied for 45th at 1-under 143 after adding a
1-over 73 at the Wanamaker Course to his opening-round 70 at the Ryder Course,
and Bucknell Golf Club’s Brian Kelly,
who is tied for 87th after making the cut on the number at 2-over
146 with a 3-over 75 at the Wanamaker Course.
Also in the group tied for 32nd along with Quinn
is Gene Fieger, an instructor at Club Pelican Bay in Naples, Fla. who dominated
the Philadelphia Section in the 1990s as an assistant pro at Overbrook Golf
Club. Fieger had a 1-under 71 at the Wanamaker Course after opening with a
1-under 71 at the Ryder Course to get it to 2-under 142.
Another blast from the past joining Pillar in the group tied
for 45th at 1-under 143 was Charlie Bolling, a Philadelphia area
native who is listed as a lifetime member out of the Metropolitan Section.
Bolling fired a sparkling 5-under 67 at the Wanamaker Course after opening up
with a 4-over 76 at the Ryder Course.
Olsen had seven birdies and no bogeys in keeping up his record
pace and sitting alone atop the leaderboard.
The two players who shared the top spot with him after
matching his 8-under 64 at the Ryder Course Thursday, Bob Sowards, an
instructor at the Kinsale Golf & Fitness Club in Powell, Ohio, and Omar
Uresti, the former PGA Tour pro from Austin, Texas, are Olsen’s closest
pursuers.
Sowards carded a 4-under 68 at the Wanamaker Course Friday
and is alone in second at 12-under 132, a shot behind Olsen. Uresti, who
defeated Applebrook’s McNabb in a playoff for the title in the 2017 PGA
Professional Championship at the Sunriver Resort in Oregon, posted a 3-under 69
at the Wanamaker Course and is alone in third at 11-under 133. Sowards and
Uresti are in their first year of eligibility at the 50-and-over senior level.
Two-time Senior PGA Professional Championship winner Mike
San Filippo of Hobe Sound, Fla. is two shots behind Uresti in fourth at 9-under
135 after adding a 4-under 68 at the Wanamaker Course to the 67 he opened with
at the Ryder Course.
Mark Tucker of Cazenovia Country Club in Cazenovia, N.Y.,
added a 4-under 68 at the Ryder Course to the 68 he posted at the Wanamaker
Course and is alone in fifth at 8-under 136.
Radnor Valley Country Club head pro George Forster carded a
4-over 76 at the Ryder Course that left him a shot above the cut line at 3-over
147.
John Appleget, an instructor at The Shore Club in Cape May
Court House, N.J., recovered from an opening-round 78 at the Wanamaker Course
with a 1-over 73 at the Ryder Course, but missed the cut at 151.
John Allen of Huntingdon Valley Country Club posted a 77 at
the Ryder Course for a 154 total. Concord Country Club head pro Mike Moses was
a shot behind Allen at 155 after a 6-over 78 at the Ryder Course.
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