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Saturday, September 14, 2019

U.S. Amateur Four-Ball will be a home game for Cricket Club pair of Kocent, Walizer


   Matthew Kocent and Robbie Walizer know where they’ll be spending Memorial Day weekend next May.
   They’ll be teeing it up at their home course, Philadelphia Cricket Club, in the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship. Pretty sure, both courses at the Cricket Club, the Wissahickon Course, a classic A.W. Tillinghast design, and the Militia Hill Course, will be utilized for qualifying for match play with match play being contested on the Wissahickon Course.
   And Kocent and Walizer are going to be there, playing in a national championship on a couple of courses they know all too well. They earned that coveted ticket to the U.S. Four-Ball by firing a better-ball 9-under-par 62 in a Golf Association of Philadelphia-administered qualifier at Old York Road Country Club Tuesday.
   The Cricket Club has the deepest stable of talent in GAP and it has the BMW Team Matches and GAP Team Championship trophies to prove it. And the 25-year-old Kocent and the 34-year-old Walizer are part of all that team success.
   “I can’t tell you how much it means to be able to play at our home course,” Walizer told the GAP website. “We’re going to have quite the gallery. For the last year, everybody at the club said that Matty and I had a good shot at qualifying. We hit it straight, we hit our irons well and we get hot with the putter.”
   The U.S. Four-Ball has become a popular event on the USGA schedule since it made its debut in 2015. And it has become a tough event to get in. Only three teams got through at Old York Road.
   Jon Rusk of Yardley and James Sullivan Jr. of Glenside, co-owners of the course record at Old York Road in rounds shot a week apart in 1998, finished a shot behind Kocent and Walizer with a sparkling 8-under 63.
   Andrew Wallace, a senior at Harriton and a PIAA Class AAA qualifier last fall, and Brett Brenner of Villanova got the final ticket to the Cricket Club with a 6-under 65 over the 6,554-yard, par-71 Old York Road layout.
   Another local duo, the Marlton, N.J. pair of Vince Kwon and Troy Vannucci, had already earned their way to next spring’s U.S. Four-Ball with a run to the semifinals in last spring’s U.S. Four-Ball at the Bandon Dunes Resort’s Old Macdonald Course. Kwon, who plays out of Huntingdon Valley Country Club, has been known to don a caddy bib and do a loop at the Cricket Club and Vannucci plays out of Little Mill Country Club.
   Kocent and Walizer started on the back nine at Old York Road and had four 2s on their card, making birdies at four par-3s. Kocent’s tee shot at the 180-yard 16th hole finished 15 feet from the hole and he converted the birdie try. He drilled a 3-iron to nine feet at the 185-yard third hole and made that putt.
   Walizer knocked an 8-iron at the 150-yard 14th hole to six feet and dropped the putt and got a 50-footer to fall at the 212-yard fifth hole.
   Walizer sent another birdie bomb to the bottom of the cup, a 35-footer at the par-5 fourth hole and hit a pitching wedge to seven feet at the par-4 seventh hole before converting another birdie putt. When Walizer’s approach at the 556-yard, par-5 ninth hole stopped at tap-in range, the Cricket Club partners had medalist honors.
   Rusk set the course record at Old York Road not long after winning a PIAA championship as a senior at Council Rock and Sullivan quickly matched Rusk’s 5-under 66. They were rivals then and now a team that  will compete in the national Four-Ball championship.
   The 40-year-old Rusk had his amateur status reinstated earlier this year. The Yardley resident was the head pro at LuLu Country Club. He’s still playing out of LuLu as is the 44-year-old Sullivan, a Glenside resident.
   The 18-year-old Wallace, a talented left-hander who plans to join Ben Feld’s Drexel program in a year, got his team in when he drilled a 5-iron at the 180-yard, par-3 16th hole to five feet and made the putt. He followed that up with a clutch up-and-down at the 17th hole for a par to keep him and the 28-year-old Benner at 6-under.
   Speaking of Feld, he almost joined his recruit in the U.S. Four-Ball field as he and Michael Carr were one of seven teams that finished a shot behind Wallace and Benner at 5-under 66. The tandem of Carr and Feld is the second alternate.
   The first alternate is the pair of Kevin Busteed of Charlotte, N.C. and Erick Plisko of Hanover Township as they prevailed in the playoff for the alternate spots.
   A couple of former Conestoga High standouts a generation or so apart, Stephen Dressel and Brian Gillespie, also carded a 66, but couldn’t snag one of the alternate spots.
   La Salle High senior Steve Lorenzo, a PIAA Class AAA qualifier last fall, and Matthew Lafond as well as the teams of Gregory Day and Bryan Marvin and Maxwell Moldovan of Uniontown, Ohio and Jacob Tarkany of Scottsdale, Ariz. were the other three pairs that came in a 5-under.



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