Florida Pub-Links: Anderson goes low to lead after Round 1
ORLANDO, Fla. (June 10, 2011) Billy Anderson takes the first round lead after shooting a 6-under par 66 in the Florida State Public Links Championship at MetroWest Golf Club in Orlando. The 2011 Championship will continue through Sunday, June 12.
Billy Anderson, of Deltona, fired a first round 66 to have a two stroke lead heading into the second round of play. Anderson, who recently competed in the U.S. Open Sectional qualifier, had a flawless round of six birdies and no bogeys. The Defending Champion, Kevin Aylwin, of New Smyrna Beach, and Darin Green, from Brandon, are currently tied for second place after a first round four-under par 68. Other notable players in the hunt include, the 2010 Amateur Player-of-the-Year, Stephen Anderson, of Hobe Sound, who posted a one-under par 71, and the 2011 Mid-Amateur Stoke Play Champion Don Bell, of Port Orange, carded an even par 72.
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 any higher than 6.4. Competitors play 18 holes of stroke play on each of the three days.
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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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