Bernardsville, N.J.-John Stoltz of Concord fired consecutive sub-par rounds of 69 and 68 for a 36-hole total of 137 to capture the on-site stroke play medalist honors at today's 101st Met Amateur Championship at Somerset Hills Country Club in Bernardsville, NJ. Stoltz, a 19-year-old sophomore-to-be at St.
Fairfield, Conn. – Sukjin-Lee Wuesthoff came back from a five-hole deficit to defeat defending champion In-Bee Park, 1 up, and capture the 55th U.S. Girls' Junior Championship. Wuesthoff, 16, of Toms River, N.J., rallied after bogeys on three of the first four holes to post 12 consecutive pars and draw even with Park, 15, of Eustis, Fla., with two holes to play. She then took the lead for good with a decisive birdie at the 17th hole, before closing out Park with a par at 18 at the 6,303 yard, par-71 Brooklawn Country Club.
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J.-Sukjin-Lee Wuesthoff of Toms River, N.J. advanced to the second round of match play at the 2003 U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship at Brooklawn Country Club, in Fairfield, CT. Wuesthoff reached the second round with a 5 and 4 victory over Sara Hurwitch of Potomac Falls, VA. She faces Songyi Yi of San Diego, CA in today’s second round match.
AYRSHIRE, SCOTLAND-John C. Baldwin of Meadow Brook, in Jericho, NY shot a 3-over-par 73 (35 – 38) in the opening round of the Senior British Open Championship at The Westin Turnberry Resort in Ayrshire, Scotland. Baldwin earned his exemption into the championship with his victory in the 2002 British Seniors Open Amateur Championship. His start puts him in a tie for 65th place, seven strokes behind leader Tom Watson. He is also the second low amateur, one stroke behind Arthur Pierse of Tipperary, Ireland.
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J.-Nick Desai of Hominy Hill, in Colts Neck, NJ lost one down on the final hole of the third round of match play at the 2003 U.S.
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J.-Nick Desai of Hominy Hill, in Colts Neck, NJ survived yesterday’s first round of match play at the 2003 U.S. Public Links Championship at Blue Heron Pines GC, in Galloway Township, NJ. He advanced to the second round with a 2 & 1 victory over John Ellis, from San Jose California. Desai earned one of the last spots in the two-round on-site qualifying with his 151 (75 – 76), which tied him for 53rd. Desai faces Lenny Park, from Tempe, Arizona in today’s second round match.
Rye, N.Y.-After three long days of tournament tough golf and blistering heat, the 86th MGA/MetLife Junior Championship came to an end with 16-year-old Michael Quagliano of White Plains, NY, crowned the 2003 Champion and Andrew Giuliani of New York, NY, son of former mayor Rudy Giuliani, the runner-up. As the 2002 MGA/MetLife Boys champion, Quagliano has joined a list of just two other juniors who have held the Junio
RYE, N.Y.-After day one sixteen juniors survived rounds one and two of the 86th MGA Junior Championship. The first round of this year's Championship was especially competitive with seven matches going into extra holes, including a first-round match that lasted 21 holes won by Tyler Kupper of Weston, CT, over John Labiak, of Simthtown, NY. Of the original nine exempt from the four sectional qualifying rounds held in the Met Area, only three will return tomorrow for another opportunity to advance.
Rye, N.Y.-Andrew Giuliani of New York, NY, son of former mayor Rudolph Giuliani, led a group of four determined juniors, who survived the third and quarterfinal rounds of the 86th MGA/MetLife Junior Championship on the second day of play at The Apawamis Club in Rye, NY. Giuliani, Michael Quagliano, of White Plains, NY, one of the pre-tournament favorites, along with Joseph Yastrub of Lake
ENGLISHTOWN, N.J.-Ralph Alfieri, of Darlington GC, in Mahwah, NJ, fired a three-under par 141 (73- 68) to capture the 56th MGA/MetLife Public Links Championship at Charleston Springs GC, in Englishtown, NJ. Alfieri, a junior at Elon University in North Carolina, fired a flawless four-under par 68 (34 – 34) in the afternoon to follow his opening round 73 (36 – 37) for a three-under par total of 142. David Solomon, of Concord Resort, in Kiamisha Lake, NY shot an even-par 144 (71 – 73) to claim second place.