Florida (FSGA) Public Links Championship
ORLANDO, FL (July 24, 2005) -- Robert Parker fired a final round score of 69 to defend his title and win the 8th Amateur Public Links Championship at MetroWest Golf Club in Orlando on July 23-24.
Robert Parker, from Sanford, shot a 70 in the first round to trail the first round leader by two strokes going into the final round. With temperatures reaching the mid-90s, Parker came out strong in the final round to fire a 3-under par 69 and capture his second Public Links Championship with a tournament total of 139. Parker posted an even par 36 on the front nine and finished with a 3-under par 33 on the back nine to secure the Championship by one stroke over Jon Veneziano. Parker won last year’s Championship at Falcon’s Fire Golf Club with scores of 71-67—138. Veneziano, of Mount Dora, recorded rounds of 2-under par 70 to claim second place. Kelly Gosse, of Inverness, and Brandon Smith, of Lake Worth, shared third place honors with a tournament total of 141.
The Public Links Championship is open to bona fide public course players who are not members of a private club and also do not have a handicap index no higher than 8.4. Competitors play 18 holes of stroke play on the first day and then, the field is flighted and competitors play another 18 holes of stroke play on the final day.
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ABOUT THE Florida Amateur Public Links
For public course players, the Public Links
Championship is 36 holes of stroke play
and
flighted after 18 holes. Competitors must
be
bona fide public course players who have
not
held privileges at any course that does
not
extend playing privileges to the general
public,
or privileges at any private club
maintaining its
own course. A bona fide public course
player
may hold incidental privileges at a course
not
open to the public when such privileges
are
provided by (1) an educational institution
at
which he/she attends, or (2) a federal
armed
service at which he/she is a member, or
(3) an
industry by which he/she is employed.
Players
must be a member of the FSGA.
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