NJSGA Ties For Third In Senior Challenge Match
NJSGA Senior Amateur champion Bill Charpek of Navesink fired the top individual score of even-par 70, followed by a 71 by Todd Wood of Fairmount as the NJSGA team finished tied for third in the 23rd Four State Senior Challenge at Baltimore Country Club, on Oct. 12.
The competition among teams from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, in addition to Maryland, featured eight-man squads with the low six scores to count.
Homestanding Maryland State Golf Association shot 446 to win over the par-70 East Course on a rainy afternoon, the winners were followed by the Golf Association of Philadelphia, 449, and the NJSGA Delaware tied for third at 453.
Charpek’s round included three birdies, three bogeys. Teammate Tom Wood followed with a 71. The New Jersey team included Jay Blumenfeld of Mountain Ridge, Tom DiCinti of Old York, Anthony Fioretti of Ballyowen, Phil Fabrizio of Knickerbocker, Dan Levinson of Bayonne, and Bill McGuiness of Tavistock.
The event was founded in 1989, with Washington as the fourth team instead of Maryland, but the MSGA was invited to participate in 1995 after Washington dropped out. Since that time, Philadelphia has won 10 times — and has the lowest team score, 433 — and the victory by Maryland enabled it to move into a first-place tie, snapping a two-year winning streak by Philadelphia.
Dave Nocar of Chartwell, shot 72 in his first year of eligibility after turning 55, and the current Senior champion of the host entry, the Maryland State Golf Association, was followed by teammates Tom Grem, Hunt Valley GC, 73; Lee Femister, University of Maryland GC, 74; Skip Tendall, Congressional CC, 74; Craig Ostrom Hobbit’s Gen GC, 76, and Joe Lefavor, U.S. Naval Academy GC, 77, plus George Murphy, Hillendale CC, and Marc Coburn, Hunt Valley GC.
