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Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Laurel Creek's Walker, Russo team up to claim Senior Four-Ball Stroke-Play Championship


   Mark Walker buried a 12-foot putt for par on the final hole at Spring-Ford  Country Club last Thursday and, when all the tiebreaking criteria were applied, it turned out that putt gave Russo and Laurel Creek Country Club clubmate Joseph Russo the title in the Golf Association of Philadelphia’s 60th Senior Four-Ball Stroke-Play Championship.
   The par at the last gave Walker and Russo a 5-under-par 67 over the 6,399-yard, par-72 Spring-Ford layout that left them in a three-way tie at the top with Overbrook Golf Club pair of Oscar Mestre and Andy Thompson and the Wilmington Country Club tandem of Steve Walczak and Randy Mitchell.
   The first tiebreaker of back-nine total did not resolve the issue, but the 21 shots it took Walker and Russo to navigate the final six holes were one shot better than Mestre and Thompson and two better than Walczak and Mitchell.
   It should be noted that Mestre had teamed with the late, great Ray Thompson to win the last two Senior Four-Ball Stroke-Play titles. With Ray Thompson’s sudden passing last fall, his brother Andy filled in as the partner for Mestre, Ray Thompson’s playing partner and great friend for many years. Mestre and Andy Thompson did Ray proud with their showing.
   As crucial as that par putt by Walker was on the final hole, there were a couple of other moments down the stretch that put Team Laurel Creek in position to make that par at the last matter.
   Russo launched a 3-wood from 240 yards away to reach the green in two at the 491-yard, par-5 15th hole and rolled in a 30-foot, left-to-right breaking putt for an astounding eagle.
   At the 387-yard, par-4 17th hole, Walker dropped a wedge from 137 yards away to four feet to get a crucial birdie.
   And as big as that final putt on the 18th was, the shot that preceded it might have been bigger. Neither player drove it well at the 18th and Walker found himself 40 yards from the hole in two, a distance he doesn’t relish, and with an iffy lie. But he managed to get the ball to 12 feet for what proved to be a crucial up and down for par.
   Walker and Russo also teamed up to claim the title in the Senior Four-Ball Stroke-Play Championship in 2013 at Indian Valley Country Club. Russo already had tasted major success on the GAP senior circuit this year as he captured the Brewer Cup, the senior match-play championship presented by Callaway Golf, last month at Fieldstone Golf Club.
   The duo of Bob Arthur of Tavistock Country Club and Thomas Hyland of Little Mill Country Club finished alone in fourth place, a shot behind the top three with a 4-under 68.
   Three teams – Craig Kliewer of Lebanon Country Club and Chris Fieger, a Philadelphia Publinks Golf Association entry, Bob Beck of Lehigh Country Club and Bill Charpek of Merion Golf Club and the Elkview Country Club duo of Kenneth Bolcavage and Michael Heck – finished in a tie for fifth place, each pair posting a 3-under 69.
   Mestre and Fieger were coming off strong showings in a GAP-administered U.S. Senior Amateur Championship qualifier at LuLu Country Club as they earned two of the three tickets to Old Chatham Golf Club in Durham, N.C. and will represent GAP at the national championship for senior amateur golfers later this month.
   Rounding out the top 10 were three more teams tied for eighth place at 2-under 70, including the Yardley Country Club duo of Paul Rogowicz and Gregory Buliga, the Merion tandem of Robert Wagner and Gordon Jamieson and Edward Erickson of Makefield Highlands Golf Club and Ray Pyontek of Mercer Oaks Golf Course.
   In the Super-Senior division, the pair of Merion’s Carl Everett and White Manor Country Club’s Don Donatoni, separated for a year, were back together again and captured the title for the fourth time in the last five years with a 5-under 67. Spring-Ford measured 6,011 yards for the super seniors.
   Donatoni, the six-time reigning GAP Super-Senior Player of the Year, hopped across the pond a year ago to tee it up in The Seniors Amateur Championship at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club in Wales.
Reunited this year, the 72-year-old Everett and the 71-year-old Donatoni reclaimed the title they had won in 2015, ’16 and ’17.
   Vincent Scarpetta Jr. of Nittany Country Club and Paul Keating of Aronimink Golf Club and Robin McCool of Saucon Valley Country Club and Craig Scott of Great Bear Golf Club shared runnerup honors, each team carding a 4-under 68.
   Two more teams – Tom Borsello of Hartefeld National Golf Club and Tom DiCinti of Mercer Oaks and the Wilmington Country Club pair of Thomas Humphrey and Charles McDowell – finished in a tie for fifth, each posting a 2-under 70.



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