Summit County Amateur Championship

Entry blanks and event information have posted to the Northeast Ohio Golf site for the 2009 Cleveland Amateur Championship and the 2009 Summit County Amateur Championship. Don’t procrastinate…

Summit County Amateur Golf Championship Entries are now being accepted for the 2009 Summit County Amateur Championship, to be held for the 35th year at Good Park Golf Course in Akron on August 1 – 2. Entry blank here.

This 36-hole individual stroke play event has a $110 entry fee, and is due at Good Park by July 27th. Dave Pulk is the defending champion.

The Summit County Am always gets a full field of great players, and it features one of the richest Big Skins pots of the year. Don’t get shut out or put on the ‘waiting list’; get your entry blank in today…

Summit County Amateur Golf Championship Dave Pulk of Hudson had to fight hard against the challenge that 2008 Ohio Amateur Champion Vaughn Snyder of Massillon threw at him Sunday. And he fought him off just well enough to win the 2008 Summit County Amateur Championship at Good Park GC in Akron.

2008 Summit County Amateur Champion Dave Pulk Pulk followed up his sizzling first round score of 5-under par 66 with a solid even-par 71 in the second. But Snyder tied Pulk by posting a 3-under par 68 in the second round, sending the event to a playoff.

Pulk then outlasted Snyder in the 3-hole aggregate playoff by shooting 1-under par for those three holes, and thus captured his first win in the Summit County Amateur.

Pulk has had a stellar record in the Akron District Golf Association, winning Player of the Year three times. He has also won the 2003 Northeast Ohio Amateur, has been club championship at Lake Forest CC in Hudson several times, and has qualified for a number of national amateur events.

But at 52 years of age, and with the quality of the field that he beat, his 2008 Summit County Am victory should remain a satisfying accomplishment.

2008 Summit County Amateur, Final Putt in Regulation

Dave Pulk putts on the final hole of regulation while Vaugh Snyder and the gallery looks on.

2008 SUMMIT COUNTY AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
Final Results, Good Park GC, Akron, August 2-3:

Place	Player	Rd 1	Rd 2	Total	Gift Cert
1	Pulk, David	66	71	137*	$750.00
2	Snyder, Vaughn	69	68	137	$600.00
3	Oates, David	70	70	140	$550.00
T4	Heestand, Matt	69	73	142	$425.00
	Gutowski, Ryan	72	70	142	$425.00
T6	Henighan, Bob	73	70	143	$360.00
	Marr, Dan	71	72	143	$360.00
T8	Marshall, Steve	74	71	145	$310.00
	Moore, Jerry	74	71	145	$310.00
10	Skirpstas, Peter	74	72	146	$275.00
T11	Kies, Rick	74	74	148	$215.00
	Phipps, Darren	75	73	148	$215.00
	Okeson, Chris	74	74	148	$215.00
	Livak, Frank	72	76	148	$215.00
T15	Crute, Mike	74	75	149	$125.00
	Yacovazzi, Anthony	76	73	149	$125.00
	Bergold, Bill	76	73	149	$125.00
	Peterson, Kurt	75	74	149	$125.00
	Griffith, David	73	76	149	$125.00
	Freeman, Allen	76	73	149	$125.00
	Trier, David	77	72	149	$125.00
T22	Lanhan, Larry	73	77	150	$110.00
	Chadima, Jason	77	73	150	$110.00
	Costello, Dan	74	76	150	$110.00
	Furlong, John	75	75	150	$110.00
	Stefanski, Ryan	74	76	150	$110.00
	Thompson, Drew	75	75	150	$110.00
	Charette, Isaac	74	76	150	$110.00
	Horner, Larry	78	72	150	$110.00
	Juve, Mark	77	73	150	$110.00
T31	Spalding, A.J.	78	73	151	$30.00
	Miller, Fred	79	72	151	$30.00
	Robertson, Chris	74	77	151	$30.00
	Parker, Quinn	74	77	151	$30.00
	Carney, Chris	74	77	151	$30.00
	Smith, Brian	76	75	151	$30.00
	Rockich, Rick	73	78	151	$30.00
T38	Hedrick, Joe	76	76	152
	Schustrich, Robert	74	78	152
T40	Armour, Mike	71	82	153
	Busa, Matt	80	73	153
	Wenger, Jeff	77	76	153
	Peck, Dave	75	78	153
	Bednar, Steve	78	75	153
	Spalding, Stephen	77	76	153
	Hamilton, Mike	78	75	153
	Leventhal, Corey	77	76	153
	Albright, Carl	75	78	153
	Barbour, Billy	80	73	153
	Heffelman, Bob	76	77	153
T51	Blackburn, Scott	80	74	154
	Bania, Dan	77	77	154
	Pikus, Kevin	82	72	154
	Cutlip, Dean	80	74	154
T55	Thompson, Tom	77	78	155
	Schaefer, William	77	78	155
	Ungvary Jr., Joe	79	76	155
	Dewitt, John	79	76	155
	Abercrombie, Scott	77	78	155
	Davis, Tim	78	77	155
	Arison, Dan	81	74	155
	Tarter, Nathan	74	81	155
	Maxwell, Ryan	81	74	155
	Vankunas, Chris	79	76	155
	Bryson, Rick	78	77	155
	Latimer, Nick	83	72	155
	Duda, Derek	79	76	155
	Kronander, Andrew	78	77	155
T69	Repicky, Tom	81	75	156
	Garza, Roy	75	81	156
	Mullen, Matt	80	76	156
	Seever, Tom	74	82	156
	Durbin, Louis	77	79	156
	Fricker, Steve	78	78	156
T75	Snoddy, Byron	77	80	157
	Marshall, David	79	78	157
	Yaugo, David	82	75	157
	Sweat, Phil	76	81	157
	Varian, Doug	76	81	157
	Beebe, Brian	82	75	157
	Warren, Matt	83	74	157
	Rindo, Riley	78	79	157
T83	Roth, Matt	82	76	158
	Uecker, Jack	81	77	158
	Leonard, Jeff	80	78	158
	Bognar, Michael	78	80	158
	Stallsmith, Anthony	78	80	158
	Ciccarello, Mark	77	81	158
	Feith, Taylor	77	81	158
	Schaefer, James	78	80	158
	Blackburn, Nick	82	76	158
	Heavner, Tim	81	77	158
T93	Wilson, Steve	81	78	159
	Spittler, Patrick	78	81	159
	Gaudagni, Mark	78	81	159
	Ellison, Will	77	82	159
	Agarenzo, Mychal	83	76	159
	Grosso, Jim	81	78	159
	Slivinski, Rich	83	76	159
	Leymon, Jourdon	78	81	159
T101	Nygaard, Pat	77	83	160
	Feeney, Pat	82	78	160
	Miller, Jerry	81	79	160
	Stack, Tom	83	77	160
T106	Scala, Sam	82	79	161
	Sutter, Joe	80	81	161
	Smith, Dianna	82	79	161
	Breen, Brian	82	79	161
	Danals, Kyle	83	78	161
	Heffelman, Rob	84	77	161
	Niskanen, Jim	79	82	161
	Zachardy, Jason	80	81	161
T113	LaRose, Frank	78	84	162
	Winpisinger, Dave	84	78	162
	Wade, Ryan	78	84	162
	Mooney, Bill	78	84	162
	McGarry, Mike	82	80	162
	Vellois, Yianni	84	78	162
T119	Bender, Lee	82	81	163
	Kalail, Steven	85	78	163
	Nemeth, Joe	79	84	163
	Stoll, Nick	81	82	163
	Cockerham, Jeff	82	81	163
T124	Angie, Mike	79	85	164
	Thomas, Mark	86	78	164
	Baranek, Jake	87	77	164
	Laubscher, Rocky	83	81	164
T128	Vanvorst, Dwight	85	80	165
	Chadima, Brian	85	80	165
T130	Anklowitz, Scott	84	82	166
	Goulish, Bob	82	84	166
	Carpenter, Jay	85	81	166
	Prokop, Ray	81	85	166
	Baugh, Tom	87	79	166
	Loomis, Rob	84	82	166
	Murphy, Mike	84	82	166
	Cona, Rocco	82	84	166
T138	Richardson, Kevin	86	81	167
	LaRose, Peter	84	83	167
T140	Lewis, Alan	85	83	168
	Tucker, Kevin	82	86	168
T142	Durbin, Ray	88	81	169
	Larizza, Kevin	86	83	169
	Basinger, Jeff	82	87	169
	Taylor, Gary	89	80	169
	Chapple, Dave	88	81	169
	Blake, Casey	87	82	169
T148	Gillingham, Matt	89	81	170
	Denholm, Matt	86	84	170
T150	Bryant, Andrew	89	82	171
	Krill, Dennis	80	91	171
	Hochschwender, Mike	87	84	171
	Bianco, Michael	85	86	171
T154	Willis, Mike	88	84	172
	Horrigan, Dan	87	85	172
156	Breen, Tim	88	85	173
T157	Hatch, Lee	90	84	174
	Duncan, Dustin	82	92	174
T159	Hamlin, Scott	88	88	176
	Callahan, Brian	92	84	176
161	Breen, Kevin	92	86	178
162	White, Mark S.	88	91	179
T163	Trent, Adam	90	91	181
	Proudfoot, Brandon	91	90	181
	Camillo, Pat	93	88	181
T166	Durden, Tyler	95	88	183
	Kilgore, Keith	90	93	183
	Shortridge, Mike	91	92	183
169	Cardinali, Michael	95	91	186

Veteran player Dave Pulk blistered Good Park GC in Akron today with a seven-birdie, two bogey round of 66 to take a 3-shot lead after the first round of the 2008 Summit County Amateur Golf Championship.

Tied for second place at 2-under par 69 are Matt Heestand and recent Ohio Am champ Vaughn Snyder. Defending champion Dave Oates is another shot back at 1-under par 70.

Read the Akron Beacon Journal coverage here. Scores for the entire field follow:

Rank	Player	Front	Back	Total
1	David Pulk	34	32	66
2	Matt Heestand	35	34	69
	Vaughn Snyder	34	35	69
4	David Oates	34	36	70
5	Mike Armour	37	34	71
	Dan Marr	36	35	71
7	Ryan Gutowski	36	36	72
	Frank Livak	36	36	72
9	Rick Rockich	38	35	73
	Mike Henighan	37	36	73
	David Griffith	36	37	73
	Larry Lanhan	36	37	73
13	Jerry Moore	40	34	74
	Ryan Stefanski	39	35	74
	Chris Carney	39	35	74
	Peter Skirpstas	38	36	74
	Rick Kies	38	36	74
	Isaac Charette	38	36	74
	Mike Crute	38	36	74
	Nathan Tarter	37	37	74
	Steve Marshall	37	37	74
	Robert Schustrich	37	37	74
	Chris Okeson	37	37	74
	Chris Robertson	36	38	74
	Parker Quinn	36	38	74
	Tom Seever	36	38	74
	Dan Costello	35	39	74
28	Carl Albright	38	37	75
	Kurt Peterson	38	37	75
	Dave Peck	38	37	75
	Roy Garza	37	38	75
	John Furlong	37	38	75
	Drew Thompson	36	39	75
	Darren Phipps	36	39	75
35	Brian Smith	41	35	76
	Doug Varian	40	36	76
	Bob Heffelman	39	37	76
	Nick Lambos	39	37	76
	Bill Bergold	38	38	76
	Phil Sweat	37	39	76
	Al Freeman	37	39	76
	Joe Hedrick	37	39	76
	Anthony Yacovazzi	36	40	76
44	Will Ellison	41	36	77
	Jason Chadima	40	37	77
	William Schaefer	40	37	77
	Pat Nygaard	39	38	77
	Stephen Spalding	39	38	77
	Dan Bania	38	39	77
	Louis Durbin	38	39	77
	Mark Juve	38	39	77
	Taylor Feith	38	39	77
	Byron Snoddy	38	39	77
	Corey Leventhal	38	39	77
	Jeff Wenger	38	39	77
	Tom Thompson	38	39	77
	David Trier	37	40	77
	Mark Ciccarello	37	40	77
	Scott Abercrombie	36	41	77
60	Riley Rindo	44	34	78
	Jourdon Leymon	40	38	78
	Steve Fricker	40	38	78
	Frank LaRose	40	38	78
	Patrick Spittler	39	39	78
	Steve Bednar	39	39	78
	Larry Horner	39	39	78
	Rick Bryson	39	39	78
	Andrew Kronander	39	39	78
	Anthony Stallsmith	39	39	78
	Mike Hamilton	39	39	78
	Ryan Wade	39	39	78
	Tim Davis	38	40	78
	James Schaefer	38	40	78
	A.J. Spalding	38	40	78
	Bill Mooney	38	40	78
	Michael Bognar	38	40	78
	Mark Gaudagni	36	42	78
78	Joe Ungvary Jr.	41	38	79
	Joe Nemeth	41	38	79
	Jim Niskanen	40	39	79
	John Dewitt	40	39	79
	Derek Duda	39	40	79
	David Marshall	39	40	79
	Chris Vankunas	39	40	79
	Fred Miller	39	40	79
	Mike Angie	38	41	79
87	Dennis Krill	42	38	80
	Scott Blackburn	41	39	80
	Dean Cutlip	41	39	80
	Matt Busa	40	40	80
	Jason Zachardy	40	40	80
	Matt Mullen	40	40	80
	Jeff Leonard	39	41	80
	Joe Sutter	38	42	80
	Billy Barbour	38	42	80
96	Tim Heavner	42	39	81
	Nick Stoll	42	39	81
	Dan Arison	42	39	81
	Jack Uecker	41	40	81
	Tom Repicky	40	41	81
	Jim Grosso	40	41	81
	Jerry Miller	40	41	81
	Ryan Maxwell	39	42	81
	Steve Wilson	39	42	81
	Ray Prokop	38	43	81
106	Dianna Smith	43	39	82
	David Yaugo	42	40	82
	Mike McGarry	42	40	82
	Lee Bender	42	40	82
	Jeff Basinger	42	40	82
	Matt Roth	42	40	82
	Brian Beebe	41	41	82
	Bob Goulish	41	41	82
	Nick Blackburn	41	41	82
	Kurt Willgues	41	41	82
	Dustin Duncan	41	41	82
	Pat Feeney	40	42	82
	Brian Breen	40	42	82
	Rocco Cona	40	42	82
	Sam Scala	39	43	82
	Jeff Cockerham	39	43	82
	Kevin Tucker	38	44	82
	Kevin Pikus	37	45	82
124	Rocky Laubscher	43	40	83
	Nick Latimer	42	41	83
	Mychal Agarenzo	42	41	83
	Kyle Danals	41	42	83
	Tom Stack	41	42	83
	Matt Warren	41	42	83
	Rich Slivinski	40	43	83
131	Rob Heffelman	45	39	84
	Mike Murphy	44	40	84
	Dave Winpisinger	42	42	84
	Rob Loomis	42	42	84
	Joe Rockich	41	43	84
	Scott Anklowitz	40	44	84
	Yianni Vellois	40	44	84
	Peter LaRose	39	45	84
139	Jay Carpenter	45	40	85
	Brian Chadima	44	41	85
	Alan Lewis	41	44	85
	Steven Kalail	41	44	85
	Dwight Vanvorst	40	45	85
	Michael Bianco	40	45	85
145	Russ Rybka	45	41	86
	Kevin Larizza	43	43	86
	Kevin Richardson	42	44	86
	Mark Thomas	39	47	86
	Matt Denholm	38	48	86
150	Jake Baranek	47	40	87
	Mike Hochschwender	44	43	87
	Dan Horrigan	43	44	87
	Tom Baugh	42	45	87
	Casey Blake	40	47	87
155	Tim Breen	45	43	88
	Scott Hamlin	45	43	88
	Dave Chapple	44	44	88
	Mark S. White	43	45	88
	Mike Willis	43	45	88
	Ray Durbin	43	45	88
161	Matt Gillingham	49	40	89
	Bill Thompson	48	41	89
	Andrew Bryant	44	45	89
	Gary Taylor	42	47	89
165	Keith Kilgore	47	43	90
	Lee Hatch	46	44	90
	Adam Trent	45	45	90
168	Mike Shortridge	46	45	91
	Brandon Proudfoot	46	45	91
170	Kevin Breen	46	46	92
	Brian Callahan	44	48	92
172	Pat Camillo	45	48	93
173	Michael Cardinali	48	47	95
	Tyler Durden	45	50	95

Coming soon: a complete history of the Summit County Amateur Golf Championship, as well as a preview, entry details and the daily game stories for the 2008 Summit County Am, to be held at Good Park Golf Course in Akron on August 2nd & 3rd.

Also new for 2008: reach the Summit County Am event website pages directly using a brand new site address: SummitCountyAm.com!

–Allen Freeman