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Wednesday, July 17, 2019

McNabb surges in front in Philadelphia Open with sizzling 66 at Huntingdon Valley


   Two years ago, Dave McNabb, the head pro at Applebrook Golf Club, lost in a playoff in the PGA Professional Championship, the biggest event for club pros in America. That runnerup finish earned him his third trip to the PGA Championship.
   McNabb also teed it up in two Champions Tour majors that year, the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship and the U.S. Senior Open. He was at Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford, N.Y. this spring, again making the field for the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship. You get the point. The guy has become very comfortable playing in big events.
   In this area, the Golf Association of Philadelphia’s Open Championship qualifies as a big event. It brings together a fascinating group of club pros and top amateurs from all over the region. It is a field filled with talent and McNabb takes a back seat to nobody in this area on the golf course.
   He proved that point once again on a sweltering Wednesday in the opening round of the Philadelphia Open as the Newark, Del. resident ripped off six birdies on the front nine of the William Flynn gem that is Huntingdon Valley Country Club on his way a sparkling 4-under-par 66 that gave him a one-shot lead.
   The area’s best mid-amateur, 35-year-old Jeff Osberg, playing out of Pine Valley Golf Club, but until this year a Huntingdon Valley member for six years, posted a solid 3-under 67 and is in second place heading into Thursday’s second and final round.
   McNabb, playing in the first group off Wednesday, opened his round by knocking a 58-degree wedge from 60 yards away at the 376-yard, par-4 first hole to six feet and making his birdie putt. He added another birdie at the 217-yard, par-3 third hole where he hit a 7-wood, a new addition to the bag, to 15 feet and made the putt.
   After a momentary lapse when a poor drive led to a bogey at the fourth hole, McNabb really heated up, making birdies at four of the next five holes on the front side of the 6,785-yard, par-70 Huntingdon Valley layout.
   An 8-iron at the 163-yard, par-3 fifth hole finished six feet from the hole and McNabb drilled the birdie try. He knocked a pitching wedge from 136 yards away at the 436-yard, par-4 sixth hole to 20 feet and made that putt.
   At the 365-yard, par-4 eighth hole, McNabb again wielded the 58-degree wedge, his approach finishing 15 feet from the hole and the birdie putt again finding the bottom of the cup. At the downhill 458-yard, par-4 ninth hole, McNabb sent in a 9-iron from 150 yards away and the ball finished six feet away and he converted that opportunity into his sixth birdie on the outgoing nine.
   The back nine was pretty tame in comparison as he offset a double bogey at the 13th hole with a birdie at the par-5 15th hole.
   “To shoot 66 around here on this golf course is really a feat,” the 53-year-old McNabb told the GAP website. “The golf course is firm and fast. I really love how this place plays. It is such a demanding test tee to green. You have to pay attention for all 18 holes.”
   Osberg won this championship in 2016 in a playoff at The Ridge at Back Brook and was part of a three-man aggregate playoff in the Philadelphia Open at St. Davids Golf Club a year ago when Billy Stewart, a teaching pro at The ACE Club, captured the title.
   Osberg played some fantastic golf as recently as last month when he fell in the final of the BMW Philadelphia Amateur at Stonewall to repeat winner Jeremy Wall.
   Osberg patiently parred the front nine at Huntingdon Valley Wednesday and then made four birdies against a bogey on the incoming nine. Much like McNabb, Osberg is quite comfortable when the heat gets turned up in a big event like this.
   George Forster, the 60-something head pro at Radnor Valley Country Club, was one of four players who matched par with 70s and are tied for third, three shots behind Osberg.
   Forster was joined at even par by Bidermann Golf Club pro Zac Oakley and a couple of amateurs, John Brennan, a veteran out of the Philadelphia Cricket Club’s seemingly bottomless well of talent, and Lukas Clark of Jericho National Golf Club, a junior on the Penn State golf team who was a scholastic standout at Council Rock South.
   Overbrook Golf Club head pro Eric Kennedy headed a group of three players tied for seventh at 1-over 71.
   Vince Kwon, playing on his home course at Huntingdon Valley, was also at 1-over 71. Kwon has been playing great golf all season, including a memorable run to the semifinals of the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship at the Bandon Dunes Resort’s Old MacDonald Course along with fellow Marlton, N.J. resident Troy Vannucci.
   Rounding out the trio at 1-over was another amateur, LuLu Country Club’s Connor McNicholas, the one-time Hatboro-Horsham standout who briefly played college golf at Temple.
   Saucon Valley Country Club’s Matthew Mattare, who won the 2017 Philadelphia Open title at Philadelphia Country Club, headed a group of eight players tied for 10th at 2-over 72.
   Two pros, the Shawnee Resort & Golf Club’s Brian Bergstol, one of the Philadelphia Section PGA’s top assistant pros, and Philadelphia Country Club head pro Scott Reilly are also part of that group at 2-over 72.
   Rounding out the group at 2-over were five talented amateurs, including Whitemarsh Valley Country Club’s Will Davenport, who captured the GAP Middle-Amateur Championship at Rolling Green Golf Club this spring, Green Valley Country Club’s Ben Feld, the golf coach at Drexel, DuPont Country Club’s Matthew Finger, Mercer Oaks Golf Course’s Danny Harcourt and Fox Hill Country Club’s Marino Medico.
   Radley Run Country Club assistant pro Brett Melton, who was part of the playoff a year ago along with Stewart and Osberg, headed a group of 10 players tied for 18th at 3-over 73. Stewart was part of a 16-player logjam tied for 28th at 4-over 74.
   The field was cut to the low 60 players and ties after the opening round and it took a 76 to return to return for Thursday’s final round.


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