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Weinmann and Mullin Win MGA/WMGA Mixed Pinehurst

OLD WESTBURY, N.Y., (August 20, 2015) -  Raymond Weinmann of Huntington Crescent and Dani Mullin of Southward Ho captured the 52nd MGA/WMGA Mixed Pinehurst Thursday at Old Westbury Golf & Country Club (Woods and Overlook  in Old Westbury, N.Y.  Mullin, who recently placed T4 and tied for low amateur in the Lincoln Women’s Met Open at Upper Montclair, and played on the 2014 MGA/WMGA team in French-American Challenge, and her partner Raymond Weinmann, who played in this year’s Ike Championship at Friar’s Head, topped the 57 team field with a 7-under 65.   Starting with a birdie on the first hole they never looked back and recorded six more birdies and no bogeys.

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Following closely behind, was the brother/sister team of Dominic and Stani Schiavone, of Architects, with a 5-under 67.  Dominic is coming off a top-10 finish in the 26th Father & Son Championship at Brynwood with his father, Mark, and Stani finished her senior year at Ole Miss where she started for the past 3 years after transferring in from Baylor.

Third low gross went to the team of Daniel Chernosky and Noelle Maetz of MGA eClub – New Jersey, with a  4-under 68.  Maetz, entering her senior year at Wagner College and her partner Daniel Chernosky had gotten to 6-under until they bogeyed their last two holes.

Taking the honors of low net was the team of Tanya Krempel of Whippoorwill and Kari Marttinen of MGA eClub – Westchester/Fairfield with a  3-under 69.  After a match of cards, Blaise Duffy and Kate Platt took home second low net with a net score of 70.

Jerry Courville Jr of Shorehaven and his partner, Jo Rasmussen of Longshore, shot 2-over 74 to capture the Pro Division.  Coming in T2 were the teams of Colin Igoe of Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point and Jacqueline Faldetta of MGA eClub – New York City and Matthew Sita, of the host club Old Westbury and Hannah Pohalski of Nassau, with a  5-over 77.

The Mixed Pinehurst was first played in 1964, and in recent decades it has attracted many of the top players in the Met Area. In fact, in 2012 the tournament was expanded to include professionals. Its significance is in both the relatively low Handicap Index thresholds for the competitors and the format, which encourages teamwork and demands that the players’ games complement one another.   This year’s tournament at Old Westbury played to a par 72 and 5,539 total yards.

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