Michael Muehr wins his second Crump Cup
Michael Muehr
PINE VALLEY, N.J. (Sept. 28, 2014) — Michael Muehr
of Potomac
Falls, Va. captured the 2014 Crump Cup title at Pine
Valley Golf
Club with a 2-and-1 victory over Michael Castleforte
of Chicago
in Sunday's final.
Muehr is a reinstated amateur who played the PGA
Tour full time from 2001-2003 (he recorded two top
tens in 2001 and made over $400k). This is his
second Crump Cup title. He also won
the event
in 2008, when he defeated Jeff Belk 3-and-2
in the
final.
In the semifinals, Muehr faced 2014 Canadian Mid-
Amateur
runner-up Rob Couture of Dallas, and knocked him
off
by a slim 1-up margin. Castleforte's route to the final
went
through
Edward Richardson of England, whom Castleforte
beat
3-and-2.
In the Senior division, it was a battle of
Pennsylvanians as Chip
Lutz of Reading defeated Buddy Marucci, Jr. of
Villanova, 3-and-2. Maruccci easily bested 2014 U.S.
Senior
Amateur
champion Pat Tallent 5-and-4 in the semifinals
while Lutz
advanced to the final with a 6-and-5 win over
George
Zahringer III.
Zahringer III was the Senior champion in 2011 while
Tallent was
the Senior winner in 2009.
Gene Elliott, the defending champion, qualified into
the third
flight where he lost in the first round to Patrick
Duffy.
Duffy
ended the weekend on a happy note as he beat
Kevin
Marsh 3-and-2 in that flight's final.
Michael McDermott, who won the Crump Cup in
2012,
was the
champion in the second flight as he was victorious
over
Robert Gerwin by a margin of 2-and-1 on
Sunday. 2013 winner Mike McCoy missed the event
to attend his son's induction into the same high
school hall of fame in which he was inducted years
earlier.
ABOUT THE
Crump Cup
The George A. Crump Memorial Tournament --
named
for the
hotelier and course architect most famous for
building
Pine Valley -- is arguably the premier mid-
amateur
event in the United States. The invitational field
is
made of of top players from around the United
States
and the UK. The format for the four days is two
rounds
of stroke play qualifying, followed by four
rounds
of
match play. Players are flighted according to
their
qualifying position, and a separate Senior flight
includes three of those flights. Jay Sigel has won
the
event the most times, with nine victories
between
1975 and 1993.
Normally, the public is invited to attend the Sunday
final matches but that tradition has been suspended.
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