Local Juniors Score at Glenwild Greens Tournament
July 16, 2004 (full leaderboard)

Bloomingdale, July 16, 2004 - At the Glenwild Greens Golf Course, 45 local area youths teed it up in the first of two junior tournaments to be held this summer.  Four age-bracket winners emerged from some hotly-contested divisions.

Call him "Ace" or "Champ."  Either moniker applies for seven year-old Matt Quigley of West Milford.  Playing in a practice round on Thursday, Matt scored a hole-in-one on the par-3 2nd hole.  Though his scores on Friday were not quite as magical, Matt used a steady round to eclipse defending champion Tom Delli Santi of Nutley in the 9 & under age bracket.  Tom was coming off a runner-up finish the previous week in the U.S. Kids New Jersey 6 and under championship held at Spooky Brook GC in Somerset County.  Luke Pettenati of Ridgewood and Kevin Fitzpatrick of Bloomingdale followed closely behind in third and fourth place respectively.  Other finishers were TJ MacDonald, Michael Pavel, Shane Reardon, and Keith  Wiedemann of Kinnelon, and Max Mollihan, Chris Branton, Durham Abric, and Colby Byrne of Ridgewood.

In the 14 & over bracket, Brian Foley of Glen Rock used a birdie and two pars to highlight a steady round of 33 to take the title over friend Stephen Kenny of Glen Rock, Kyle Wiedemann of Kinnelon and Kevin Fontanazza of Butler, in a logjam for second place at 38.  Other finishers in the senior division were Colin Boyan of Glen Rock and Mike Bardzell of Ringwood.

Brian Foley of Glen Rock holds the 1st place trophy, along with Stephen Kenny
 of Glen Rock (2nd) and Kyle Wiedemann of Kinnelon (3rd).

Justin Peterson of Bloomingdale offset two double-bogeys with four pars, to hold off a bevy of contenders in the 12-13 age bracket.  A quadruple-bogey 7 by Ryan Lippmann of Wayne opened the door for Peterson and Mike Fitzpatrick of Butler, who finished second.  Justin Santillo of Pompton Plains, Jack Winkler of Ridgewood and Patrick Kenny of Glen Rock hovered close behind the lead pack.  Other finishers were James Fylstra of North Haledon, Alex Ott and Johnathon Secor of Pompton Lakes, Ryan Fontanazza of Butler, Gardiner Smith, Mike Pettenati and Alex Branton of Ridgewood, Scott Bouwense of Wayne, and Kyle Gorman of Kinnelon.

 

Golf Buddies - Mike Fitzpatrick (2nd) and Justin Peterson (1st), both of Bloomingdale,
 display their trophies for their performance at the recent Glenwild Greens Junior
 Tournament.  Ryan Lippmann of Wayne (not pictured) finished third.

Griffin Abbott of Ridgewood survived a closing quintuple-bogey 8 to post a score of 39 and cruise to victory over friend Tyler Welence, also of Ridgewood.  Trailing Welence were Thomas Brigham of Bloomingdale and Ryan Hartline of Kinnelon, who took third and fourth place respectively.  Other finishers were Tim Branton, Cooper Byrne, Kenny Turnbull and Dan Gubb of Ridgewood, Jeff Norris, Bryan Wiedemann and Matt Christian of Kinnelon and Daniel Graham of Woodridge.

  (l. to r.) Griffin Abbott of Ridgewood (1st place), along with Tyler Welence
 of Ridgewood (2nd) and Thomas Brigham (3rd) of Bloomingdale.

The next tournament will be held on Friday, August 13th, and a season closing "Pairs Scramble" tournament for adults and children, will be held on Saturday, August 21st.  Visit www.glenwildgreens.com for more information.

 

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