Glengarry Golf Links assistant pro Talon Kriebel is having quite a summer.<\/p>\n
He won three Tri-State Section PGA events \u2014 the Falling Rock Classic, the Assistants Championship and Pittsburgh Open \u2014 all in July and picked up three second-place finishes, as well.<\/p>\n
Now the 29-year-old finds himself in a four-way tie for the lead heading to the final round of the 110th annual Pennsylvania Open on Wednesday at Laurel Valley Golf Club at Ligonier.<\/p>\n
Kriebel, who led after the first round Monday when he shot a 6-under 66, shot a 1-under 71 to finish the second round on Tuesday at 7-under 137, tied with Braden Shattuck of Springfield, Jake Haberstumps of Bethlehem and Tim Peters of State College.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been a good year,\u201d Kriebel said. \u201cI started when I changed my iron heads.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy driver is back to normal, and I hit it well on Monday. My putting was good on Tuesday. I was able to roll in a few. I made one blunder on No. 18.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kriebel said he only looked at the leaderboard twice during the second round.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe key on Wednesday is to stay patient,\u201d Kriebel said.<\/p>\n
A shot back at 6-under are Upper St. Clair\u2019s Jordan Scott and Peters Township\u2019s Alex Stopperich.<\/p>\n
Two shots back are Longue Vue\u2019s Amani D\u2019Ambrosio and Zac Oakley of King of Prussia. Oakley\u2019s round included a hole-in-one on No. 8 and a triple-bogey 8 on No. 18.<\/p>\n
Other notable local players in the hunt include Mark Goetz of Greensburg, who is tied for ninth at 3-under; Matt Holuta of Indiana, Carson Kittsley of Fox Chapel and Connor Schmidt of McMurray, tied for 11th at 2-under; and Daniel Obremski of Irwin, Austin Lemieux of Sewickley and Nick Turowski of Harrison City, tied for 17th at 1-under.<\/p>\n
USGA Amateur<\/p>\n
The three local golfers competing in the U.S. Amateur at Merion Country Club near Philadelphia failed to qualify for match play, which begins on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Seneca Valley grad Matt Vogt, a dentist from Indianapolis, got off to a great start Monday at the Philadelphia Country Club by racing out to 5-under after 10 holes.<\/p>\n
But a double-bogey 6 on his 11th hole (No. 2) and bogeys on four of his final five holes had him finish at even-par 70.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, he shot a 3-over at Merion and missed the cut by one shot.<\/p>\n
Matt Mattioli of Fox Chapel finished 15-over, and Chuck Tragesser of Murrysville was 16-over.<\/p>\n
Tommy Smith Invitational<\/p>\n
The 77th annual Tommy Smith Invitational was held Aug. 9 at Greensburg Country Club.<\/p>\n
Here is a list of the top 3 finishers in each Flight:<\/p>\n
Championship: Dan Maier and Ryan Prokay defeated Ronald and David DeNunio. Third place: Arnie and Arnie Cutrell.<\/p>\n
First flight: Riley and Parker Jorgensen defeated Gary Bethel and Thomas Shaw. Third place: Ryan McWilliams and Dylan Pawlak.<\/p>\n
Second flight: Nick Finoli and Tyler Rivers defeated Joe Eisaman and Mike Engler. Third place: Bob Huey and Rob J. Klingensmith.<\/p>\n
Third flight: David and Parker Lucas defeated Chris Kowach and Sam Stitles. Third place: Glenn Astley and Rob D. Klingensmith.<\/p>\n
Fourth flight: Buddy Pevarni and Aaron Stevenson defeated Tom Shaw and John Dever. Third place: Dave DeBord and Brent Reamer.<\/p>\n
Fifth flight: Jim Pointer and Joe Lutz defeated Rich Finoli and Eric Manko. Third place: Logan Bannon and Tyler Courtney.<\/p>\n
Sixth flight: Russ McWilliams and Mike Ryan defeated Tim Newcomer and Joe Spore. Third place Ed and Aldo Narcisi.<\/p>\n
Seventh flight: Bob Bowell and Jim Pompei defeated J.T. Spangler and Colt Kaminski. Third place: Mike Painter and John Landin.<\/p>\n
Keystone State Cup<\/p>\n
Henry Manciu, a 16-year-old junior at Canon-McMillan, will be hosting the first Keystone State Cup on Saturday and Sunday at The Club at Nevillewood.<\/p>\n
Manciu is bringing in 24 of the top juniors in the state who will compete in a Ryder Cup format.<\/p>\n
The event started because Manciu wanted to use golf to give back.<\/p>\n
Each player is raising money, with proceeds benefiting the Jack Nicklaus Children\u2019s Health Care Foundation, the TEN Memorial Fund and the ACE Grant.<\/p>\n
Nevillewood has donated the course for the two-day event.<\/p>\n
Manciu raised more than $9,000 for the Nicklaus Foundation in 2025 by offering chipping and putting lessons in his backyard, by hosting a garage sale of gently used golf equipment and by dressing as the Golfing Grinch and visiting families during the holidays.<\/p>\n
He was able to meet with Nicklaus in March.<\/p>\n
So far, more than $46,000 has been raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glengarry Golf Links assistant pro Talon Kriebel is having quite a summer. He won three Tri-State Section PGA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-263763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}