Roger Newsom
MAMARONECK, New York (Sunday, Jun 7, 2015)
--
Until the U.S. Four-Ball hit the fairways of
Olympic
Club this year, the Anderson Memorial was the
top
dog among team best-ball competitions in the
United
States. The tournament has it all. History,
venue,
and a top field of mid-amateur players that
would
drop just about anything to respond to a coveted
invitation.
Sure, the USGA event may be more
"important" now, but there is something
about playing the same course year after year
that
may qualify the Anderson as the "Masters of
Four-Ball tournaments."
This year, the final match drew young Kris
Devlin and partner Craig Smith against Roger
Newsom and Adam Horton of Virginia. It's the
final
18 holes in a grueling weekend that sees
finalists
playing their fourth match in two days, after
playing
36-holes of medal play on Thursday and Friday.
That isn't easy.
Newsom and Horton didn't dominate this
one
from the beginning, as the match was square
through three holes after the teams traded off
victories on the the second and third. But from
there,
the Virginia team seized on several team bogeys
from Devlin and Smith, and took a 4-up lead into
the
back nine.
At that point, with comfort and odds on their
side (4-down is tough to come back from in
team
best ball) the team of Newsom and Horton
added
wins with birdies on the short par-4 10th hole
and
547-yard par 5 12th to go 6-up, and only needed
a
par on the 13th to close out the match.
Earlier, Newsom and Horton had defeated
two-
time champs Parker Smith and Dan Crockett, 2
and 1
while Devlin and Smith won their match over
Sam
and Will Bernstein of Century Golf Club, 3 and 2.
To view the full Championship bracket, click
the
results link at the bottom of the page.
SATURDAY MATCH PLAY
RESULTS
Four teams survived two rounds of match
play
in the weekend marathon of golf also known as
the
Anderson Memorial Championship.
The first Sunday match will feature Kris
Devlin
(grandson of the legendary Australian golfer
Bruce
Devlin) and Craig Smith of Foxland Harbor
G&CC of Tennessee vs. Sam and Will Bernstein
of New York's Century Country Club.
On Saturday afternoon, Devlin and Smith
won a
tough quarterfinal battle over qualifying
medalists
Joe Saladino and partner Dave Boccia, 3 and 1.
The other Sunday match will pair Roger
Newsom
and Adam Horton of Virginia vs. Parker Smith
and
Dan Crockett of The Country Club in Tennessee.
Crockett and Smith won the tournament in back-
to-
back years in 2011 and 2012.
SENIOR DIVISION
George "Buddy" Marucci and Kelly
Miller, playing out of Florida's Seminole Golf
Club,
posted a 67 on Winged Foot's West Course on
top of
an even par round on the East to take the
number
one seed in the stroke play qualifying portion of
the
competition.
They tied with the team from Ohio's
Canterbury
CC, Bob Fairchild & Brian Sparrow, who also
posted 139, and were given the number two
seed.
In match play, the medalist teams both
went out
in the quarterfinals, and the final match pitted
John
Benson and Don Erickson of Pennsylvania's
Punxsutawney CC vs. the Winged Foot team of
Jim
Graham and Joe Sommers. Benson and Erickson
won
the Senior title, 3 and 1.
To view the full Senior bracket, click
here.
ABOUT THE JOHN G. ANDERSON
MEMORIAL
Maybe one of the most difficult invitations to
receive of all the invitational four-ball
tournaments,
The Anderson has been hosted at Winged Foot
for
over 75 years. Anderson is known for his
coverage
of Francis Oiumet's U.S. Open victory in 1913 at
The
Country Club. When Anderson died young at the
age
of 49 in 1933, Winged Foot's members created
the
tournament to honor his legacy.
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ABOUT THE
Anderson Memorial
Perhaps the most coveted best-ball
invitation in all of amateur golf. Created in 1933 to
honor Winged Foot founding member and two time
U.S.
Amateur runner-up John G. Anderson, the event
consists of a 36 hole qualifier followed by two days
of
match play competition in both Championship and
Senior divisions.
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