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Section Championships Highlighted
Finishing just after the last publication was due, the Section’s Senior Professional and Assistant Professional Championships were held at Watertown Golf Club.
Bob Mucha from Edgewood Golf Course emerged victorious on the senior side after a 36-hole total of 144 (+2) led the field. Mucha will be joined by Jan Wivestad and Archie Cart at the Senior PGA Professional Championship.
The Assistant Professional Championship came down to the wire as newly registered associate Chris Flowers of H. Smith Richardson GC bested Dylan Keith of Sharon Country Club in a one-hole playoff. Dylan Keith from Sharon CC were tied 146. Flowers won in a playoff.
The section will be represented at the National Assistant PGA Professional Championship by Sean Sweitzer of Clinton Country Club and Mike McCarthy of Shuttle Meadow Country Club.
The section will bid adieu to its tournament season later this October, but not before the Section’s Professional Championship which will take place at Shennecossett Golf Course in Groton, Conn. Slater will look to defend is title along the banks on the banks of the Thames River.
In addition to the Professional Championship the Match Play Championship, PGA Pro-Veteran and Del Kinney Pro-Pro will round out the tournament calendar.
On the Foundation front, the 4th Annual Birdies Fore Brighter Futures fundraiser will take place on October 16 at Shuttle Meadow Country Club in Kensington, Conn.
Thirty-two teams of two are charged with soliciting donations in support of the Connecticut Section PGA Golf Foundation and Connecticut Children’s.
-Ted Pisk