Luckily for Zac Oakley, he had a short memory.<\/p>\n
The 44-year-old King of Prussia resident had an unusual second round at the 110th Annual Pennsylvania Open on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
He finished his round with a triple-bogey 8 on No. 18 after earlier recording his third career hole-in-one, his first in 23 years.<\/p>\n
But he put the finish behind him and played well enough Wednesday at Laurel Valley Golf Club to claim his first Pennsylvania Open title.<\/p>\n
The Delaware native has won two Delaware Open titles.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe competition is a lot stronger in Pennsylvania,\u201d Oakley said after winning the title with a par on a second playoff hole to edge 23-year-old Jake Haberstumpf of Bethlehem.<\/p>\n
\u201cWinning this means a lot. To win it at such a prestigious and challenging golf course is special. When I got here on Saturday, I could tell this was a special place. It is a big deal to see my name on the cup.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oakley began his final round two shots behind Haberstumpf, Talon Kriebel, Tim Peters and Braden Shattuck.<\/p>\n
An eagle on No. 6 kick-started his round. He added a birdie on No. 9 to go 3-under-par on the front.<\/p>\n
He birdied No. 11 but bogeyed No. 13 to maintain a one-shot lead.<\/p>\n
He had an opportunity to ice the title on No. 18, but he just missed a birdie putt from 15 feet.<\/p>\n
Haberstumpf came to the final hole needing a birdie to tie or an eagle to win. His 20-foot eagle attempt ended up three inches short, sending the duo to a playoff Oakley won on the second playoff hole.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hung in there all day,\u201d Haberstumpf said. \u201cI played steady. I made a poor swing on the second playoff hole. This was a great venue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Austin Lemieux, son of Mario Lemieux, finished tied for third with Davis Conaway. Both finished at 6-under.<\/p>\n
Tying for fifth were Greensburg\u2019s Mark Goetz, Peters Township\u2019s Alex Stopperich, Patrick Sheehan, J.D. Hughes and Riley Wheelden at 5-under.<\/p>\n
Goetz said he was pleased with his three rounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cI played OK,\u201d Goetz said. \u201cThere is no place on the planet that I\u2019d rather play than here. Playing here is special.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got to compete against Nicky (Turowski) and K-Dog (Kevin Fajt), which was cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kriebel and Peters at 4-under tied for 10th.<\/p>\n
Tying for 12th were Harrison City\u2019s Turowski, Pittsburgh\u2019s Mike Van Sickle and Fox Chapel\u2019s Amani D\u2019Ambrosio at 3-under.<\/p>\n
\u201cI played solid,\u201d Turowski said. \u201cI did some good stuff, and I made some poor mistakes. I must be better with my course management.\u201d<\/p>\n
The West Virginia junior headed to Morgantown after the tournament to prepare for team qualifying Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luckily for Zac Oakley, he had a short memory. The 44-year-old King of Prussia resident had an unusual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-264319","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\/264319","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=264319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}