| Indiana PGA Northern Open
Pine Valley CC, Fort Wayne
June 11, 2007
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Beginning the day in the first
group and ending the day as the winner of the Cleveland / Golf Ahoy PGA
Northern Open, Quinn Griffing, Professional at the Donald Ross Golf Club in
Fort Wayne, fired a 34-33—67 at Pine Valley CC to take the title.Griffing’s only bogey was on
the first hole, but he came back with birdies on #4 and #9 to go out at 1-under
par. Another birdies on #10, and back-to-back birdies on #15 and #16 brought
him in at 4-under for the tournament and the lead. He then had to wait until
the field of 156 players completed their rounds before being declared the
winner. Anticipating the upcoming
competition at the PGA Professional Championship to be held at Sun River,
Oregon next week. Griffing has played “solid golf for the last month,” and is
“feeling positive going in to Nationals, and that is a good frame of mind to be
in. After the long wait, Griffing
was finally able to collect the purse and the trophy. A group of 69s shared second
place. The pack included Jeff Huffman, Cobblestone GC, Denny Hepler, Racoon Run
GC, Bill Schumaker, Crooked Lake GC, and amateurs Tyler Zink, Salem Brandon
Smart, Pendleton and Craig Scheibert, Carmel.
The senior Professional first-place purse
was split between Schumaker and Hepler.
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