Jones, Gaffney Secure Spots In 2015 PGA Championship
Former State Open champion Matt Jones of Due Process Stable finished birdie-birdie for a 1-over 72-73-69-69-283 and tied for fifth place in the 2015 PGA Professional National Championship at Philadelphia Cricket Club.
His finish secured Jones, brother of PGA Tour standout Matt Jones, a spot in the 2015 PGA Championship, August 10-16, at Whistling Straits in Kohler Wisconsin. Jones won the NJSGA State Open in 2009.
Another former State Open champion (2010), Brian Gaffney, formerly at Rumson Country Club and now at Quaker Ridge in New York, tied for 20th place at 286 to also garner a spot into the PGA Championship.
Matt Dobyns of Lake Success, N.Y., won the event at 3-under-par 279.
Dobyns won the PGA Professional National Championship for the second time in four years to top the 20 qualifiers for the PGA Championship.
Dobyns, the 37-year-old head pro at Fresh Meadow in Lake Success, took advantage of playing partner Ben Polland's closing double bogey for a three-stroke swing and a one-shot victory over Polland at windy Philadelphia Cricket Club.
After Polland missed a 10-foot bogey putt on the par-4 18th, Dobyns holed a 5-footer for birdie for an even-par 70 and a 3-under 279 total. In 2012 in Seaside, California, the former University of Texas player won by a record eight strokes.
Polland, a 24-year-old PGA assistant pro at Deepdale in Manhasset, New York, shot a 72.
