Labritz Grabs Second Major Title of Year

Rob Labritz stepped up with three birdies in a row to win the Metropolitan PGA Professional Championship yesterday at Manhattan Woods. The win came not long after a miraculous hole-out in a playoff at the PGA Professional National Championship that earned him a spot in the PGA Championship at Oak Hill next month and matched his triumph in the POLO GOlf Met PGA Head Professional Championship at the Tuxedo Club in May.

Labritz, the GlenArbor Director of Golf, carded five birdies in eight holes in his final round at Manhattan Woods to post an 8-under 132 for the tournament. His steady, precise play--no bogeys on the card for the second round--gave him a three stroke margin over Rob Corcoran of Poxabogue, who had posted a spectacular 61 earlier in the day. Here's how the top of the field finished:

1	Rob Labritz	GlenArbor Golf Club	67	65	132
T2	Rob Corcoran	Poxabogue	73	61	134
	Joe Gothmann	Ardsley CC	66	68	134
4	Danny Balin	Burning Tree CC	63	72	135
T5	Frank Bensel	Century CC	69	68	137
	Christopher Toulson	Sunningdale CC	67	70	137
T7	Jamie Kilmer	Wheatley Hills	70	70	140
	Mike Gilmore	Winged Foot GC	69	71	140
	Grant Sturgeon	Winged Foot GC	70	70	140
	Anthony Casalino	Willow Ridge	66	74	140
T11	Philip Cardwell	Quaker Ridge GC	71	70	141
	Colin Amaral	Metropolis CC	70

All these players qualified for the PGA Professional National Championship in Myrtle Beach next June. Labritz and Danny Balin were already exempt.

Among many other books, Dave Donelson is the author of Weird Golf: 18 tales of fantastic, horrific, scientifically impossible, and morally reprehensible golf