Amateur Match: Atlanta champ Dorchinecz shoots for PGA
He had been pondering the idea for quite some time. Now, after picking up his second statewide amateur title in Georgia, MATT DORCHINECZ has made up his mind.Dorchinecz, a 1996 Taylorville High School graduate who played collegiate golf at NCAA Division II Kennesaw State, recently won the Atlanta Amateur Match Play Championship. That followed his Georgia Public Links Championship two years ago. Now, the 26-year-old Dorchinecz believes he's ready to pursue something bigger....
Amateur Match: Match play starts today
BIGFORK - The field for the Montana men's amateur match play championship was set Thursday, with 32 qualifiers in the championship flight for the Eagle Bend Golf Club tourney. The cut was at 89 for the championship flight as players battled a blustery wind all day and very cold conditions early in their rounds.Clancy's Casey Erickson made his first hole-in-one on the par 3, 191-yard hole fourth hole.The championship flight plays an 18-hole match in the morning,...
Amateur Match: Houston golfer wants second title
Bob Kearney of Houston smiles and says it would definitely be "neat" to add the Texas Golf Association's Mid-Amateur Match Play Championship trophy to the Texas state amateur title he won this year. "I've definitely thought about it," he said after shooting a 1-under-par 71 Thursday in the first round of qualifying at White Stone Golf Club. "Of course, if you print that, then everyone will be out to get...
McCool outlasts Blichar to win Amateur Match Play ** It is his second Lehigh Valley title in his first event since 1988.
The 66th Lehigh Valley Amateur Match Play Championship at Green Pond Country Club was something of a homecoming for Lower Saucon Township resident Robin McCool.On Sunday, the 51-year-old McCool, an eight-time club champion at Saucon Valley and a 13-time qualifier for the USGA national championships, made it a happy homecoming. McCool held off rallying 1999 Amateur titlist Dave Blichar of Upper Macungie Township, winning the 36-hole title match 1-up. McCool's title was his...