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Robin McCool finishes second in Golf Association of Philadelphia Super-Senior Amateur, but earns two coveted season awards
September 20, 2018
Robin McCool of Saucon Valley Country Club matched Don Donatoni of White Manor Country Club shot-for-shot in 36 holes of regulation play, but came up just short in a playoff.
Both players were tied at 1-under-par 71-70–141 at Riverton Country Club in Cinnaminson, New Jersey in the Golf Association of Philadelphia Super-Senior Amateur Championship on Wednesday, September 5.
After both players two-putt for pars on the first two playoff holes, McCool missed a potential winning 3-footer for par on the third playoff hole.
Donatoni, a 70-year-old Malvern resident, sank a 5-foot birdie putt on the fourth sudden-death playoff hole, then won the title when McCool’s 5-foot birdie putt went left of the hole.
However, McCool also came away with a pair of awards.
McCool, a 67 year-old Upper Saucon Township resident who has qualified for a Lehigh Valley region-record 15 USGA national championship tournaments, earned the GAP Super-Senior Silver Cross Award — a season honor that accumulates gross stroke play scores from the Francis B. Warner Cup, Frank H. Chapman Memorial, and the Philadelphia Super-Senior Amateur Championship.
In 1990 and 1991, McCool won the GAP Silver Cross award.
McCool also learned shortly after the tournament that he clinched the 2018 GAP Super-Senior Player of the Year award. Donatoni had won the award the previous five years in a row.
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