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Friday, August 9, 2019

Osberg completes a dominant season of GAP golf with victory in rain-shortened Patterson Cup


   Blame it on the weather if you will, but the forces of nature certainly seemed to conspire to give Jeff Osberg, the region’s best mid-amateur golfer, his third Patterson Cup victory after the second rogue thunderstorm of the day Thursday halted play at Applebrook Golf Club in East Goshen for the final time.
   The first round of the 117th Joseph H. Patterson Cup, presented by Callaway Golf, had been suspended by rain and lightning Wednesday afternoon. The plan was to have everybody complete their opening round Thursday morning, have a rolling cut and get the second round completed.
   The weather forecast seemed promising, but two little cells that didn’t hit everywhere, but did seem to target Applebrook threw a wrench into the Golf Association of Philadelphia’s best-laid plans to get in two rounds in the last of its four major championships for 2019.
   The final delay meant that 20 players, including Osberg, would not be able to complete their second round, so the decision was made to revert back to the completed first round. The 35-year-old Osberg, who plays out of Pine Valley Golf Club, had completed a sparkling 4-under-par 67 before play was suspended Wednesday and it turned out that was good enough to earn him his third Patterson Cup victory and fourth Silver Cross Award.
   The 4-under 67 fired by Merion Golf Club’s Tug Maude and the sparkling 5-under 66 registered by Whitemarsh Valley Country Club’s Will Davenport, who had captured the first GAP major of the season, the Middle-Amateur Championship at Rolling Green Golf Club in May, were wiped off the books.
   Give them both credit for carving out really nice rounds on the Gil Hanse original set up in championship conditions.
   Maude and Davenport were in the clubhouse at 3-under and Osberg was trying to get up and down for par to remain at 3-under on the 13th hole when the siren blew halting play just before 7:30 p.m.
   Anybody who plays competitive golf at the level of a GAP major is aware that weather will inevitably affect the outcome of a golf tournament somewhere along the way.
   That’s what happened at Applebrook this week and none of it takes away from the fact that Osberg is the dominant player on the GAP circuit right now.
   Osberg’s 2019 was eerily reminiscent of his 2016 when he lost to his rival and friend Michael McDermott in an epic BMW Philadelphia Amateur final at McDermott’s home course, the unparalleled East Course at Merion, then proceeded to capture the Philadelphia Open in a playoff at The Ridge at Back Brook and the Patterson Cup at one his former home courses, the William Flynn gem at Huntingdon Valley Country Club.
   He admitted it felt a little like 2016 after he dropped a hard-fought 3 and 2 decision to Jeremy Wall of the Manasquan River Golf Club in the Philly Am final at Stonewall in June.
   “We talked at Stonewall after I lost in the final and I kind of joked that the year was very similar (to 2016),” Osberg told the GAP website after adding the 2019 title to his Patterson Cup wins in 2010 and ’16. “I don’t know if it was foreshadowing or what. I said I had a ton of confidence after the first two events (Middle-Amateur and Amateur championships), even though they didn’t go my way.”
   He beat the region’s toughest field, which includes Philadelphia Section PGA pros as well as the top GAP amateurs, to capture the Philadelphia Open, again at Huntingdon Valley, before adding the rain-shortened Patterson Cup at Applebrook this week, swelling his total of GAP major wins to six.
   Danny Harcourt of Mercer Oaks Golf Club, who fell to Osberg in the Philly Am semifinals at Stonewall, headed a group of three players tied for second at 3-under 68.
   Joining Harcourt at that figure were LuLu Country Club’s Matt Teesdale, an assistant to Temple head golf coach Brian Quinn, and Eric Williams of Honesdale Golf Club. Teesdale had captured the 2014 Philadelphia Open at Applebrook when he was still a member of the Temple golf team.
   Youngstown State junior Kevin Scherr, the 2016 PIAA Class AAA champion as a senior at Nazareth Area, headed a group of four players tied for fifth at 2-under 69. Scherr plays out of Woodstone Country Club & Lodge.
   Joining Scherr in that foursome were LedgeRock Golf Club’s Grant Skyllas, the runnerup to Gregor Orlando in the 2017 BMW Philadelphia Amateur, West Shore Country Club’s David Herbst and Conestoga Country Club’s Connor Sheehan.
   Overbrook Golf Club’s Oscar Mestre, who has been dominating the GAP senior circuit, headed a group of six players tied for ninth at 1-under 70. The 58-year-old Mestre will represent GAP in the U.S. Senior Amateur later this month at Old Chatham Golf Club in Durham, N.C. after claiming medalist honors in a GAP-administered qualifier at LuLu Country Club.
   Also in that group was Loch Nairn Golf Club’s Zachary Barbin, a junior on the Liberty golf team who was coming off a tie for 11th in last week’s Pennsylvania Amateur Championship at Aronimink Golf Club.
   Rounding out the group tied for ninth were Bent Creek Country Club’s Richard Riva, a senior on the Saint Joseph’s golf team, Galloway National Golf Club’s Peter Barron III, Running Deer Golf Club’s Stephen Barry and Woodcrest Country Club’s Ben Keyser.
   The battle for the Silver Cross Award was not nearly as close as Osberg nailed down his fourth GAP stroke-play championship by six shots over Scherr and Barbin.
   The Silver Cross combines the scores from the BMW Philadelphia Amateur qualifying rounds with the Patterson Cup rounds, which became just one Patterson Cup round this year.
   Osberg was very tough in carding a pair of 1-under 69s on a windy day at Tom Doak’s twin gems at Stonewall, the Old Course and the North Course – trust me, I was looping that day, the wind really blew, especially early in the day – that gave him medalist honors in the Philly Am qualifying.
   His 67 at Applebrook Wednesday gave him a 6-under 205 total as he added the 2019 Silver Cross to his previous Silver Cross summers of 2010, ’15 and ’16.

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