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2005 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PENNSYLVANIA GOLF ASSOCIATION President JOHN P. TRACH ........................................Country Club of Harrisburg Vice-President THOMAS E. PAUL ...............................................Gulph Mills Golf Club Vice-President MARK A. STUDER ............................................ Oakmont Country Club Secretary-Treasurer DR. RANDALL L. VALENTINE .................................. The Kahkwa Club Members of the Executive Committee CHARLES R. DANNENBERG .................................... Merion Golf Club WILLIAM R. DAVIS, JR. .......................... Chambersburg Country Club *DR. JOSEPH E. GREEN, III .............................. Carlisle Country Club C. TALBOT HEPPENSTALL, JR. ........................Fox Chapel Golf Club KING T. KNOX .................................................Lancaster Country Club DR. JAMES J. MAHONEY ............................. Lake View Country Club RAYMOND C. MOTT .......................... Dauphin Highlands Golf Course JOHN W. McMURDY, JR. .................................... Indiana Country Club JOSEPH A. PESAVENTO...........................................Longue Vue Club DR. PETER G. RICHTER ................................... Hershey Country Club DR. PAUL RINGIEWICZ.................................. Rolling Green Golf Club PAUL S. ROMANO ............................................ Colonial Country Club *FRANK E. RUTAN, IV .................................Philadelphia Country Club RENARD M. SACCO........................................ Berkleigh Country Club VINCENT A SCARPETTA, JR. ............. Glenmaura National Golf Club JAMES R. SHERRATT............................ Old York Road Country Club DR. TERRY L. SMITH............................................. Huntsville Golf Club JACK W. WOLFORD, JR. ................. Huntingdon Valley Country Club JOHN F. YERGER, III .................................. Sunnehanna Country Club *past president Pennsylvania Golf Association – 2 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT John P. Trach m pleased to announce that your Association remains strong and thriving. Last year, the Pennsylvania Golf Association witnessed an increase in participation, up I30 percent from the year prior. The Amateur Championship, Open Championship, Senior Better-Ball Championship and Senior Tournament/Senior Team Champion- ship all witnessed significant participant increases. However, none of that would have been possible if not for the unwavering support of every Pennsylvania Golf Association member club and its professional staffs and ground crews. To all those clubs who have hosted or will host an event in the future, I thank you. I would also like to recognize the Pennsylvania Golf Association Executive Com- mittee, the staff and all the volunteers for their time and effort in making this a successful year. ***** Congratulations to Alex Knoll, the recipient of the 2005 W.C. Fownes, Jr. Award given to the Pennsylvania Golf Associations Amateur Player of the Year. Alexs sea- son started out with a third--place finish at the George Dressler Amateur Public Links in May. In June, Knoll birdied the first playoff hole at a newly redesigned White Manor Country Club to capture the Pennsylvania Better-Ball and claim the Mayors Trophy for him and his partner Christian Davis. Also early in the year, Knoll qualified for the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship at Shaker Run Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. In July, Knoll was crowned the victor of the Pennsylvania Amateur Championship held at Huntingdon Valley Country Club and, in August, he qualified for match play of the U.S. Amateur at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa. The Association saw strong support for its first stand alone Senior Better-Ball Championship played at Huntsville Golf Club, northwest of Wilkes Barre, Pa. Bill Kunsman and Paul Schlachter from The Club at Nevillewood captured the title. Paul demonstrated his winning ways again later in the year by taking the Mid-Amateur Champi- onship, his fourth state title, at The Country Club of York by edging out James Bohn, the 2002 Middle-Amateur Champion, in a playoff. Bill Davidson of Carlisle Country Club and Jim Sherratt of Old York Road Country Club won the Super-Senior Better-Ball division. The Association administered the inaugural Hemlock Championship for golfers between the ages of 45 and 54. The event was played over two rounds at Bellewood Golf Club, a par 71, 6,609-yard layout, and was won by Robin McCool of Saucon Valley Country Club. Those two events, plus the twofold increase in the entries at the George Dressler Amateur Public Links Championship helped add to our successful year. The Dressler was again held at the scenic Dauphin Highlands Golf Course in Harrisburg. Pete Toole, the 2000 Amateur Champion, from Mt. Joy, Pa., earned the title by stroke over newly reinstated amateur Jeff Daniels, the 2001 Open Champion. Also, the Senior Team Championship held at the beautiful Philadelphia Cricket Club proved wildly successful. A full field of 320 golfers teed it up on the Militia Hill and Wissahickon courses. Congratulations to Arnie Cutrell of Totteridge Golf Club for his victory in the R. Jay Sigel Amateur Match Play Championship played at scenic Stonewall in Elverson, Pa. Sean Farren of Totteridge Golf Club blistered the final nine in 5-under 31 to overcome a four-stroke deficit and edge out Kevin Shields of Bethel Park, Pa., to capture the 89th Pennsylvania Open held at Sunnybrook Golf Club. I would also like to congratulate King Knox of Lancaster Country Club for his Senior Amateur Championship victory at Butler Country Club and Jimmy Markovitz who took the Junior Championship at Penn National Golf Club in Fayetteville, Pa., with a 6-under par performance. During the summer months, Pennsylvania sent a team of Juniors to the Williamson Cup which was hosted by the Golf Association of Philadelphia at Bent Creek Country Club in Lititz, Pa. For the second straight year the Pennsylvania Junior Team finished in second place. We look forward to another strong finish in Syracuse, N.Y., in 2006. In September, the team of Sean Knapp, Chris Lange and Nathan Smith represented the Commonwealth at the USGAs State Team Championship held at the Berkeley Hall Club in Hilton Head, S.C. The team finished in sixth place behind Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina and North Carolina and gave the Commonwealth its best finish in the events history. In closing I want to thank each and every one of you for letting me serve as your President this past year. I hope the 2005 season leaves you with great memories of a great organization that strives to increase your affection and love for the game of golf in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Golf Association – 3 2nd R. Jay Sigel Match Play Championship Stonewall – Elverson, Pa. May 2-4, 2005 LVERSON, Pa.In a classic duel between East and West, Arnold Cutrell of Greensburg, Pa., Enear Pittsburgh, defeated Glenn Smeraglio, of Newtown, Pa., in suburban Philadelphia, on the 19th hole to win the Pennsylvania Golf Associations second R. Jay Sigel Pennsylvania Amateur Match Play Championship at Stonewall (par 70, 6,652 yards). It was a dramatic finish for a back-and-forth match that featured only six halved holes and clutch, match- saving putts by Cutrell on holes No. 17 and 18, the latter after his 167- He was a great yard, downhill, downwind 8-iron hit player and a great four feet up on the flagstick at the person. Im hon- back of the green and clanged to a ored to win this stop 12 feet away. tournament in his One-down at the time, he drained (Left) Glenn Smeraglio of Yardley CC rolls a putt during the final of the R. Jay Sigel the difficult, slick 12-footer to send Match Play Championship with Arnold Cutrell of Totteridge GC. (Right) Cutrell name. holds the Sigel trophy. the match into extra holes. Then on the playoff par 5, 511- With the momentum on his side, Smeraglio took the yard No. 1, after he extricated his lead on the brutal, 463-yard, par four 16th, where he hit drive from under the lip of a fairway his shot of the day, a 140-foot, lob wedge chip from bunker, pitched to 15 feet and missed deep rough short of the green to five feet for a par. a birdie by inches, he watched as Cutrell missed from 35 feet for a bogey. Arnold Cutrell Smeraglios three-foot par putt On No. 17, a short, 142-yard par 3, it looked like it dipped into the hole and then out, was all over for Cutrell. He missed his tee shot badly, on taking R. Jay three quarters of the way around the leaving it 25 feet short of the green on the edge of a Sigel Champi- cup. bunker, while Smeraglio had a 20-footer for the match. onship The golf gods, he said, were Cutrell chipped to five feet, Smeraglio missed by inches, with me today. and Cutrell sank the five-footer to extend the match. Cutrell, 40, is a former professional On 18, the long-hitting Cutrell, who had outdriven who played briefly as a Monday quali- Smeraglio by 30 yards, as he had most of the day, said, fier on the Nationwide Tour, and in several satellite tours When I saw Glenn on the green, I knew I needed a birdie in the 1980s before regaining his amateur status in 1994. to win. I was pumped up. I hit the [8-iron] high and hard. If He plays to a plus-3 handicap out of Totteridge GC, a it hadnt hit the flagstick it would have been over the green. course founded and designed by golf architect Rees Jones. The golf gods were with me today. He was 3-up after eight holes on a gray, cool, wind- He said this, his first Pennsylvania state title, even less day, after Smeraglio found a greenside bunker on after qualifying once for the U.S. Amateur, and making No. 1, scraped up a double bogey on the short, 370- match play in the last three U.S. Middle-Amateurs, was yard No. 4, losing to a bogey, and missed an eight-foot very special. par putt on No. 8. When I was growing up, Jay Sigel was Mr. Amateur I thought I was in good shape then, Cutrell said. I Golf, he said. He was a great player and a great person.