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....
CITY AMATEUR MATCH PLAY DRAWS SMALLER MEN'S FIELD
The two finalists in last year's City Men's Amateur Match Play Championship, winner David Bieterman and runner-up Steve Block, are all set to tee it up this week in the 2002 edition of the tournament, but their competition won't be as keen or as deep.Only 60 players - a considerable drop-off from the 95 who entered in 2001 - will participate in the 36-hole qualifier Monday and Tuesday at Community Golf Course. Thirty-two will qualify for match play,...
TWO MORE FORMER CHAMPS OUSTED,
* Four virtual unknowns will battle it out for the Men's City Amateur Match
Play crown.
Two more former champions Carl Bidwell and Bobby Jones - were eliminated from the Men's City Amateur Match Play Championship Thursday, leaving four virtual unknowns in the annual competition to battle it out for the title.In 18-hole semifinal matches at 8 a.m. today at Community Golf Course, George Moore opposes Matt Ehlinger and Tim Jolin meets Gary Hickman. The winners play an 18-hole match, beginning at 7 a.m. Saturday. Ehlinger, a new Carlisle resident who has earned NCAA...
Amateur Match: Anderson advances to quarters in State Match Play tournament
BIGFORK - Great Falls' Scott Anderson won both of his matches Friday to advance into the quarterfinals of the Montana State Amateur Match Play Tournament, being played at Eagle Bend. Anderson, who just completed his sophomore year at Ohio State, defeated Craig Harpe 4 & 3 in his first match and beat Dave Stengel by the same score in his afternoon match.Ryan Fritz, also of Great Falls, lost his opening match 1 up on the final hole to Judd Norman.Fritz then beat...
Amateur Match: Pallin's young challenger falls off on the final hole
Waterford, Wis. When John Pallin, 38, won his first Wisconsin Amateur Match Play Championship in 1980, Jason Fitchett was 8 years old and getting hooked on golf by his father, professional Terry Fitchett.Pallin Thursday at Rivermoor Country Club, Fitchett, now 20, almost made a mockery of the adage, "Age and treachery will win out over youth and skill every time." Pallin, a physician from Kenosha, called on his golf experience, sharpened over more than two...
