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Mike Hogan is qualifying medalist at 2018 Lehigh Valley Senior Amateur Match Play Championship
September 24, 2018
Defending Champion – Robin McCool
BETHLEHEM TWP. — Mike Hogan of Saylorsburg shot 1-over-par 72 to earn qualifying medalist honors Monday in the 27th Lehigh Valley Senior Amateur Match Play Championship at Green Pond Country Club.
Hogan was runner-up in the event in 2017.
As the defending champion, Robin McCool will be the No. 1 seed. McCool also won the title in 2004.
Dave Blichar, who qualified with a 77, has a chance to make local golf history this week.
If Blichar wins the tournament, he will become the first golfer in Lehigh Valley history to hold all four Lehigh Valley senior major amateur titles at the same time, and achieve a “Calendar Slam”.
Earlier this year, Blichar won the Lehigh Valley Senior Inter-Club Championship and the Lehigh Valley Senior Amateur Medal Play Championship. Last October, Blichar won the Lehigh Valley Tournament of Champions.
Blichar, a 54-year-old Upper Macungie Township resident, is a Lehigh Valley Golf Hall of Fame inductee. He won the Lehigh Valley Amateur in 1999.
Match play competition begins on Thursday, with the senior championship matches scheduled for Sunday afternoon.
The cutoff score for the 32-player senior championship flight was 82. A ten-way playoff for the last four spots will be conducted at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday morning.
In the Super-Senior Division for golfers 60 years of age or older, Tom Lusto of Chestnuthill Township earned medalist honors with a 2-under-par 69.
Lusto, 66, won the 2002 and 2003 Lehigh Valley Senior Amateur Medal Play Championship, and the 2005 Lehigh Valley Senior Inter-Club Championship.
Defending super-senior champion Ed Kluemper of Bethlehem Township is the No. 1 seed in the 16-player championship flight. Kluemper, who will be inducted into the Lehigh Valley Golf Hall of Fame in October, won the Lehigh Valley Senior Amateur Match Play Championship in 2007, 2008, and 2009.
In the Legends Division for golfers 70 years of age and older, Gordon Bennett of Palmer Township shot 77 to earn medalist honors.
Bennett won the Lehigh Valley Senior Amateur Match Play title in 1997, 2001, and 2002.
27th Lehigh Valley Senior Amateur Match Play Championship
Senior qualifying — leading scores
Defending champion — Robin McCool
72 — Mike Hogan (1-over-par)
73 — Dominic Carr
74 — Ike Haluska
75 — Alan Orchard, William Briggs, Jeff Hudson, Joseph Kizer, Linc Treadwell
76 — Mike Guro
77 — Shane Gunning, Dave Blichar
78 — Charles Leon, Tom Egolf
79 — Eric Pacala
80 — Don Gretta, Bob Schubach, Greg Buliga, Jim Boburka, John Albenzi, Tom Soares, David Strohl, Chris Daniels
81– Fred Lening, Don Wilderotter, James Duke, Ed Domin, Andy Brown
82 — Four players out of ten players who survive the sudden-death playoff Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. will make the championship flight: Andy Lykon, Jeff Wiedecke, Jim Keosian, Elliott Sheftel, Rick Keosian, Joe Roeder, Eric Retter, Jeff Kortina, John Martin, Larry Pritchard
Super-Senior qualifying (60 years-old and over) — leading scores
Defending champion — Ed Kluemper
69 — Tom Lusto (2-under-par)
72 — Ben Spence
74 — Dylan Spadt
77 — Joe Masulli, Steve Domitrowits
78 — Peter DiSaverio, Del Patterson, Keith Henritzy, Bruce Jodoin, Jack Booros
79 — Mike Freundel, John Mace, Ed Streisel
80 — Lex Wilkinson, Ernie Nepa
Legends Division qualifying (70 years-old and over) — leading scores
77 — Gordon Bennett
78 — Art Scott
79 — Tom Stitt
80 — Ray Atherholt, Richard George
81 — Bob Fairall, Jim Deemer, Herbert Gates
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