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Club took 8.5 of 9 points from Tom Brett and Patrick McGuiness. (The Challenge Cup plays singles
and team competition simultaneously. Two-man teams play while each member of the team plays
a member of the other team. Both team and singles matches are worth 3 points: front nine, back
nine, total, so that in one four some nine points are at stake.)

In the end the team competition made the difference, with the CSGA winning 13.5 points to the
PGA’s 7.5, much of that margin coming in the final four matches, where the
amateurs won all but 2.5 of 12 points. The final two teams—Mike Kennedy
of New Haven and Nick Waddington of Manchester Country Club and Bri-
an Ahern of Wampanoag Country Club and Kyle Nolin of Tallwood Coun-
try Club—blanked their opponents, taking six team points between them.

“That’s why I put them there, “ said Captain Everin, point-
ing out that Waddington’s father had played in the Challenge Cup
more than 30 years before. Waddington took all but a half of a
point in his singles match against Kevin Mahaffy of Pequabuck.

Ahern won all three of his singles points against veteran David
Dell. “I played much better than I’d anticipated,” said Ahern, the 2010
and 2012 Connecticut Mid-Amateur Champion. “I’d gotten in just a
Playing in his 41st Challenge
couple 9-hole rounds before today. So I’m happy.” Though he and first-
Cup Fran Marrello again
timer Nolin had never played as a team before, “we hammed and
starred for the CT Section
egged it pretty well. Our games are similar.”
Suzy Whaley of Suzy Whaley Golf won 2.5 of 3 points in singles, as did
she and partner Ian Marshall of Watertown Golf Club as a team.

It was the 43rd time that New Haven Country Club has hosted the Julius Boros Challenge
Cup, which was created in honor of Boros, arguably Connecticut’s greatest golfer, who won the U.S.
Open twice and the PGA Championship.

The Matches were first played at Tumble Brook in 1972. The Connecticut Section PGA leads
the competition 34-13.

“Team events are fun, ” said Nick Cook of Tashua Knolls Golf Course, who took all three of
his singles points. “We don’t get to do it that often.”

For complete results click here.
Captain Roger Everin’s squad took back the Cup, 36.5-26.5, its first win since 2011
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