FINAL RESULTS: 2016 Summit County Amateur Golf Championship

Jake Appleby is having a good golf summer.

He has already won the Zoar Memorial and the Portage County Am in 2016, and shot 69 at a crazy-tough Sleepy Hollow setup in the first round of the Cleveland Am Qualifier two weeks ago.

The Saturday 66 he shot at Good Park in round one of this year’s Summit County Amateur Championship certainly has to be a summer highlight, too. It gave Appleby a two shot lead and another chance to win a big local tournament before he begins his sophomore season as an Akron Zips player.

But there was a ton of talent ready to push back against him at Good Park.

Barberton’s Chase Johnson (pictured above), a Kent State player who shot 63 in the second 18 to medal at this year’s U.S. Am Qualifier at Avon Oaks, was not going to give up without a fight. Nor was Aurora’s Bud Radis, who was only two shots behind after Saturday’s first round. Nor past champions of the Summit County Am like Aaron Crewse or Howard Clendenin, or veteran players like Larry Lahnan, Steve Blackburn Jr. or Chris Okeson.

Appleby was going to have to earn it.

But the golf course was lengthened to the back-of-the-back-tees for Sunday, and the traditional bunker-tucked hole locations were put into play. When the sun shone brightly to dry out the greens and the wind kicked up for the afternoon rounds, it made mounting a charge on Appleby that much more difficult.

Appleby turned the front nine in even par, which made the catch-him task almost impossible. Chase Johnson and Chris Okeson (right) did the best to maintain pace late on the final nine; both players were within one shot of Appleby at one point in their rounds.

But none of the players in the hunt could get then stay under par to turn up the pressure. In the end, Appleby knew exactly where he stood and managed his way around the tough final nine holes at Good Park to get into the house with a 3-over par 74, which was good for a two shot victory.

The story of equal interest to the field in the 2016 Summit County Am was the fact that no skins were won on Saturday, which pushed the first day’s skins pot into Sunday. Players were trying to make an eagle or hole out a shot from the fairway all day long on Sunday to get their share of the $2,620 sitting in the skins coffers.

Two players were successful.

Scott Mullen made eagle 3 on the short par-5 second hole, then dodged bullets from the rest of the field as many had chances to tie off his skin from on or around the green. It held.

John Kabasky (left) flipped in a chip from greenside at the 315 yard par-4 12th hole to make the only eagle of the day there. Just like the second hole, dozens of players had a chance to tie Kabasky’s eagle, but no one did.

So both Mullen and Kabasky are now each $1,310 richer.

Gift certificate prize amounts are also listed below, with cards available Wednesday morning at the Golfsmith store in Fairlawn.

Photo Galleries from the 2016 Summit County Am’s Round 1 and Round 2 here.

FINAL RESULTS:
2016 Summit County Amateur Golf Championship
Good Park Golf Course, Akron
August 6 – 7, 2016 | Par 71

Player Rd1 Rd2 Total Prize
Appleby, Jacob 66 – 74 = 140 $750.00
Okeson, Chris 70 – 72 = 142 $625.00
Johnson, Chase 69 – 73 = 142 $625.00
Tanaka, Satoshi 71 – 72 = 143 $500.00
Lahnan, Larry 69 – 74 = 143 $500.00
Lieser, Jonathon 69 – 74 = 143 $500.00
Clendenin, Howard 70 – 74 = 144 $412.50
Radis, Bud 68 – 76 = 144 $412.50
Nixon, Brandon 73 – 72 = 145 $362.50
Krivanek, Jim 71 – 74 = 145 $362.50
Blackburn, Steve 72 – 74 = 146 $300.00
Crewse, Aaron 71 – 75 = 146 $300.00
Parker, Chase 69 – 77 = 146 $300.00
Yacovazzi, Anthony 76 – 71 = 147 $187.50
Spalding, Stephen 75 – 72 = 147 $187.50
Kasunick, Jarrod 73 – 74 = 147 $187.50
Schnur, John 71 – 76 = 147 $187.50
Schreiber, Austin 71 – 76 = 147 $187.50
Skidmore, Tom 71 – 76 = 147 $187.50
Anagnost, Niko 76 – 73 = 149 $125.00
Prospal, Jay 74 – 75 = 149 $125.00
Heavner, Tim 74 – 75 = 149 $125.00
Zachardy, Jason 73 – 76 = 149 $125.00
Savage, Andrew 72 – 77 = 149 $125.00
Merril, Trevor 77 – 73 = 150 $100.00
Polick, Brian 75 – 75 = 150 $100.00
Agarenzo, Mychal 75 – 75 = 150 $100.00
Archer, Dave 74 – 76 = 150 $100.00
Trier, David 70 – 80 = 150 $100.00
Simpson, Mike 76 – 75 = 151 $100.00
Grayson, Andrew 74 – 77 = 151 $100.00
Fleming, Doug 77 – 75 = 152 $20.00
Kabasky, John 77 – 75 = 152 $20.00
Horne, Chris 77 – 75 = 152 $20.00
Minko, Paul 73 – 79 = 152 $20.00
Testa, Nick 72 – 80 = 152 $20.00
Topeka, John 77 – 76 = 153
Peterson, Kurt 76 – 77 = 153
Frey, Matt 77 – 77 = 154
Bryson, Rick 77 – 77 = 154
Cutlip, Dean 75 – 79 = 154
Buehler, Dustin 74 – 80 = 154
Allen, George 74 – 80 = 154
Miller, Fred 71 – 83 = 154
Smith, Cole 79 – 76 = 155
Davis, Tim 77 – 78 = 155
Hung, Jeff 77 – 78 = 155
Carney, Chris 75 – 80 = 155
Fryman, John 75 – 80 = 155
Furey, Michael 75 – 80 = 155
Schustrich, Rob 74 – 81 = 155
Thomas, Mark 73 – 82 = 155
Warren, Matt 82 – 74 = 156
Chuparkoff, Kenny 80 – 76 = 156
Mullen, Scott 79 – 77 = 156
Kardish, Austin 78 – 78 = 156
Chadima, Jason 77 – 79 = 156
Mullen, Matt 77 – 79 = 156
Ellison, Will 77 – 79 = 156
Li, Tommy 76 – 80 = 156
Vincelette, Brian 75 – 81 = 156
Davis, Aaron 75 – 81 = 156
Gomez, Erron 72 – 84 = 156
Hinchliffe, Tim 84 – 73 = 157
Bojc, Phil 83 – 74 = 157
Chiesa, Jackson 81 – 76 = 157
Freeman, Al 80 – 77 = 157
Beebe, Brian 78 – 79 = 157
Foss, Mark 78 – 79 = 157
Kloetzer, Shaun 78 – 79 = 157
Witmer, Michael 78 – 79 = 157
Harmon, Bobby 84 – 74 = 158
Spalding, A.J. 83 – 75 = 158
Carpenter, Jay 82 – 76 = 158
Brawley, Ryan 81 – 77 = 158
Marr, Dan 81 – 77 = 158
Laubacher, Tom 71 – 87 = 158
Ferrara, Evan 85 – 74 = 159
Rising, Taylor 81 – 78 = 159
Lenartowicz, Michael 79 – 80 = 159
Stallsmith, Anthony 78 – 81 = 159
Livak, Frank 77 – 82 = 159
Arison, Tommy 83 – 77 = 160
Ciccarello, Mark 79 – 81 = 160
Lowry, Rich 76 – 84 = 160
Spiers, Bill 84 – 77 = 161
Mayor, Clay 82 – 79 = 161
Hinton, Jimmy 82 – 79 = 161
Loomis, Rob 82 – 79 = 161
Wilson, Steve 80 – 81 = 161
Elliot, Travis 79 – 82 = 161
Druckenbrod, Zak 78 – 83 = 161
Scala, Sam 83 – 79 = 162
Brady, Christopher 83 – 79 = 162
Troutman, Ken 80 – 82 = 162
Wenger, Jeff 78 – 84 = 162
Romano, Kyle 77 – 85 = 162
Cona, Garrett 86 – 77 = 163
Patterson, Cale 84 – 79 = 163
Toth, John 83 – 80 = 163
Mangon, Brett 83 – 80 = 163
Kerns, Larry 78 – 85 = 163
Hochschwender, Michael 83 – 81 = 164
Nemeth, Joe 82 – 82 = 164
Feith, Taylor 80 – 84 = 164
Watkins, Tyler 88 – 77 = 165
Beresh, James 84 – 81 = 165
Mooney, Bill 82 – 83 = 165
Schlue, Dan 81 – 84 = 165
Eggleton, Chris 79 – 86 = 165
McElwain, Dan 79 – 86 = 165
Kolkovich, Elliot 79 – 86 = 165
Mastran, Michael 79 – 86 = 165
James, Brian 84 – 82 = 166
Opal, Jason 83 – 83 = 166
Hairston, Matt 80 – 86 = 166
Hull, Doug 86 – 81 = 167
Wilson Jr, Steve 86 – 81 = 167
Di Donato, Joseph 83 – 84 = 167
Steffen, Frank 80 – 87 = 167
O’Boyle, Tom 84 – 84 = 168
Barbas, Jeffrey 84 – 84 = 168
Grosso, Jim 82 – 86 = 168
Krill, Denny 80 – 88 = 168
Walker, Dan 84 – 85 = 169
Granata, Angelo 83 – 86 = 169
Brockman, Clay 82 – 87 = 169
Chadima, Brian 87 – 83 = 170
Ryan, Cory 85 – 85 = 170
Ribelli, Joe 86 – 85 = 171
Armour, Mike 86 – 85 = 171
Rush, Eric 84 – 87 = 171
Vellios, Yianni 80 – 91 = 171
Terry, Dan 82 – 90 = 172
Mirelli, Jeff 83 – 90 = 173
D’Andrea, Dante 88 – 86 = 174
Oberdier, Jason 86 – 88 = 174
Salsburg, Jamie 90 – 85 = 175
Karnuth, Scott 84 – 91 = 175
Nehlsen, Sean 79 – 96 = 175
Dimeo, Sam 87 – 89 = 176
Sibit, Derik 85 – 91 = 176
Roth, Bryan 85 – 92 = 177
Oberhauser, Tyler 91 – 95 = 186