After lacking final 12 months because of the COVID-19 shutdown, the 76-year custom of the Greenwich Males’s City Golf Match comes again this weekend at Griffith E. Harris Golf Course.
Women and men from city will check their golf abilities in hopes of profitable a championship in a number of flights.
The Greenwich Males’s City Golf Match began in the summertime of 1945 and continued each summer time till the worldwide pandemic halted it final 12 months.
This summer time the match is again.
Saturday’s opening spherical at Griffith E. Harris Golf Course marks the 76th anniversary of the lads’s match, which concludes Sunday.
The Ladies’s City Match can be performed Monday marking the return of the one-day occasion, which had taken place annually since 1966 till final summer time.
“The response to the match coming again has been unbelievable. Everyone is dying to play” Griffith E. Harris PGA head golf skilled Joe Felder stated. “We had 14 extra males and 11 extra girls enroll this 12 months than in 2019. Individuals are excited to get to play and the course is in nice form. I find it irresistible. It’s the U.S. Open of Greenwich golf and everybody’s wanting ahead to it.”
The boys’s match options 5 flights — Townwide, Senior, Tremendous Senior, Senior A and Townwide A. The low gross and internet gamers in every flight are acknowledged with awards on the occasion’s conclusion Sunday.
Previous to the 2000’s, the match featured two stroke play qualifying rounds, adopted by match play after the lower was made. The boys’s city match used to final a full week. Within the mid-2000’s the match shifted to stroke play and was condensed to a two-day, 36-hole occasion.
The Males’s Championship had three-peat winner in 2019 in Jason Morilla, a participant who grew up honing his golf abilities at Griffith E. Harris Golf Course.
The 26-year-old Morilla grew to become the fourth participant for the reason that match’s inception to win the general title three straight years, however the first to take action in over 30 years.
Morilla shot a 4-over-par 75 on Saturday and Sunday to win his third consecutive Townwide flight title with a 150.
“Everybody within the prime flight is gunning for Jason Morilla. He has received three-straight occasions and is again to attempt to win it once more,” Felder stated. “I consider all of the flights this 12 months, the senior occasion is perhaps essentially the most aggressive.”
In 2019, Bob Klingel took dwelling the championship trophy within the Townwide A flight. Klingel posted a 170 over two rounds from the blue tees, taking pictures an 88 within the first spherical and an 82 within the second.
Gyanen Kumar made his first look within the city match’s senior flight a profitable one, profitable the title with a 9-over-par 152.
Ray Bakshi overcame a four-shot deficit to win the Tremendous Senior division. Bakshi shot an 82 within the opening spherical, earlier than ending with a 79 within the closing spherical for a two-round whole of 161.
Michael Ward repeated because the Senior A flight champion, taking pictures a 190 over two rounds from the white tees. Ward shot an 88 in Saturday’s opening spherical and a 102 on Sunday to earn low gross honors.
Saturday, the Tremendous Seniors tee off at 7:30 a.m.; Senior A at 8:40; Seniors at 9:20; Townwide A at 10:30 and Townwide at 11:40.
Anne-Laure Coby shot a 6-over-par 79 to defend her Townwide flight title on the Ladies’s City Match in 2019.
The Ladies tee off Monday at 8 a.m.
76TH GREENWICH TOWNWIDE GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
MEN
Sunday
Tremendous Senior
7:30: Paul Pacent, Craig Lanzoni, Louis Cea
7:40: Bruce Willey, Mark Fox, Bud Pironti
7:50: Charles Weiss, Sal Sabia Sr., James Jagodzinski
8:00: Paul Applegarth, Charles Adams, Andrew Dzamba
8:10: Dan Agro, Ray Bakshi, Ken Strasnick
8:20: Chris Hulse, James Murphy, Granville Burgess
Senior A
8:40: Trond Rokholt, Michael Ward, Will Barnum
8:50: Mark McKeefry, Ivan Qi, Patrick English, Robert Buan
9:00: Mark Kaicher, Dev Panigrahi, Carlo Lettich, Sal Mutone
Senior
9:20: Manny Morilla, William Stanlonis, John McShea, Michael Marullo Jr.
9:30: Bob Eskierski, Simone Dagnino, Randy Rabenhorst, David Rabin
9:40: Sergio Saichin, Robert Vaenerberg, Edmund Marinucci, George Pusser
9:50: Bob Klingel, Brien Kelley, Joe Nethercott, Mike Thornton
10:00: Frank Alfano, Barry Cohen, Jonathan Rosenthal, Scott Gaulocher
10:10: Paul Sudell, Matt Johnson, Hal Rudy, Steve Gordon
Townwide A
10:30: Mike Moran, Robbie Pedicano, Matt Fletcher
10:40: Yoshifumi Takahashi, Carlos La Rovere, Takeyoshi Sugimoto
10:50: John Byrne, Andrew Yu, John Martin, Andy Herr
11:00: Anthony Gangi, Willem Venema, Juan Ferrara, Jason Herrmann
11:10: Michael Ballestrini, Graeme Fattedad, Paul D’Amico, Andrew McCauley
11:20: Jeff Butera, Josh Becker, Stephen Hohl, Eric Jozwiak
Townwide
11:40: William Newberry, Mark Kelley, Michael Hickey
11:50: Brendan O’Neil, Alberto Santulin, Nick Dagnino
12:00: John Zukauskas, Benjamin Ropiak
12:10: Sal Sabia Jr, Sean Dowling, Tyler Sudell
12:20: Jason Morilla, Colin Cassidy, David Peng
12:30: Jack Kelleher, Chris Dunn, Karim Hallaba
WOMEN
Monday
8:00: Sue Lacombe – TW, Linda Rothenberg – SSR, Jane Giuliani – TW
8:10: Laurie Schelz – TW, Eileen Grasso – SSR, Wendy Quaranta – SR
8:20: Maureen Bailie – SR, Melissa Bazar – TW, Eileen Rosella – SR
8:30: Hsiao-Lien Boardman – SSR, Patricia Dadakis – SSR, Kaisa Newhams – SR
8:40: Lee Murdoch – SSR, Kathleen Bassett – SSR, Suzanne Weiser – SSR
8:50: Angela Tammaro – SSR, Sharon Peterson – SSR, Debbie Thron – SR
9:00: Anne-Laure Coby – TW, Melanie Santulin – TW, Juliette Santulin – TW
9:10: Kendyl Nethercott – TW, Sydney Nethercott – TW, Amanda Yu – TW
9:20: Inger Mark – SR, Julie Gibian – SR, Petra VanDerLee Saichin – SR
9:30: Karen Cohen – SR, Diana Mahaney -TW, Carole Kiachif – SSR
9:40: Christina Downey – SR, Laura Erickson – SR, Meg McCreery – SR
9:50: Olga Harvey – TW, Susanna Mantello – SR, Nahed Hallaba – SSR
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