Connor Greenleaf knocks off defending champion to win New Hampshire Amateur
2015 N.H. Amateur winner Connor Greenleaf (NHGA photo)
BRETTON WOODS, N.H. — The two co-medalists found themselves squaring off in Saturday afternoon's finale of the 112th New Hampshire Amateur Championship.
Joe Leavitt, the defending champion from Atkinson, and Connor Greenleaf, the Boston College sophomore from Windham, needed all 36 holes in the championship match as Greenleaf held his 1-up lead and halved the 18th hole for victory.
Leavitt, who will be a senior this fall at the University of Rhode Island, went 20 holes in the semifinals against TCU standout Chelso Barrett to reach the final match for the second straight year.
More to come in a full story from the New Hampshire Golf Association later this evening.
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ABOUT THE New Hampshire Amateur
Competition will be held at ten pre-qualifying
sites and will be 18 holes at Stroke Play.
The
low qualifiers and ties from all the sites
along
with the players exempt from
prequalifying, will
be eligible for the 36-hole qualifying on
the
first two days of the tournament proper.
Sixty-four players will begin match play the
following day. Entries are open to males
who
are members in good standing of member
NHGA
Clubs who are legal residents of New
Hampshire. An eligible non-resident can
play in
NHGA Championships if he has been a
member
in good standing of an NHGA member club
for
the last three complete golf seasons and
has
played a minimum of 25 rounds of golf at
this
club in each of the three seasons. A letter
signed by the President of the member
club
must accompany his first entry, stating
that
the player complies with NHGA eligibility
requirements.
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