2005

The magic ran out for 52-year-old Tom Yellin on Saturday, at the 103rd Met Amateur where he lost his semi-final match to Metuchen’s Ron Vannelli 6&5 after three days of superb play at The Creek, the spectacularly beautiful course on Long Island’s north shore in Locust Valley, NY.  Vannelli, a contemporary of Yellin, who was the on-site medalist at the US Senior Amateur at Bel-Aire CC in 2004, will meet Patrick Pierson of Minisceongo in the 36-hole final, after Pierson defeated Tarik Can of Bethpage 4&3.

Mamaroneck, N.Y. - Morgan Hoffmann of Wyckoff, NJ, survived soaring heat and a demanding 36 holes over the West and East courses of the famed Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, NY, to claim the 3rd annual Carter Cup/MGA Junior Stroke Play Championship title in a playoff with Dan Abbondandolo of Oyster Bay, NY. Hoffmann won the title with a par on the first playoff  hole, the par 3- 10^th on the West Course, after both players posted three over par 145’s for the 36 hole championship to top the field of  51 select junior golfers.

Hempstead, N.Y. - On what was undoubtedly one of the hottest days of the summer, heavy favorites Sun Ho Kim of Flushing, NY, and Mark Costanza of Upper Saddle River, NJ, the 2004 and 2003 MGA/MetLife Boys Champions, respectively, were both defeated in quarter-final play at the 2005 MGA Junior Championship, sponsored by MetLife, at Hempstead Golf & Country Club in Hempstead, NY.