Connecticut State Am: McDonagh wins second
-- CSGA
WILTON, Conn. (June 25, 2011) -– Tommy McDonagh from Shorehaven Golf Club erased a three-down deficit through twenty-five holes to claim his second Connecticut Amateur Championship at Rolling Hills Country Club in Wilton, CT.
McDonagh, who won the 2006 Connecticut Amateur at Torrington Country Club, defeated Matt Smith from Quinnatissett Country Club three and two. McDonagh has also padded his golf resume with two Metropolitan Amateur Championships (2006 & 2008).
The final match had been rescheduled to Saturday morning (the first Saturday finish since 2002) due to severe rain and lightning which forced play to be suspended on Thursday afternoon. McDonagh began the final match with an eagle on the first hole but quickly found himself one down following a birdie by Smith on the third hole and a bogey on the fourth hole. Throughout the first eighteen holes, the match was back and forth with both players trading birdies. Smith, who will be a senior at the University of Hartford this fall, made a birdie on the sixteenth hole to go one-up and that’s where the morning eighteen holes would end.
Matt Smith would extend his lead to three-up through twenty-five holes but McDonagh quickly erased that deficit. McDonagh, a senior at Penn State University, would go on to win four consecutive holes to grab a one-up lead with seven holes to go. He would never relinquish that lead and went on to win the thirty-first and thirty-fifth hole to secure the victory three and two.
View results for Connecticut Amateur
ABOUT THE Connecticut Amateur
The Connecticut Amateur Championship is one of
the
nation’s oldest state amateur golf championships
and
is one of 19 championship tournaments conducted
by
the Connecticut State Golf Association. The
challenging format tests the state's best amateur
golfers over two rounds of stroke play to determine
the low thirty-two match play qualifiers. Two rounds
of match play each day culminate in a thirty-six hole
final to crown the top amateur player in Connecticut.
View Complete Tournament Information