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Down the Fairway: Quillinan outduels McGinn to win third Tri-County Match Play crown | The Daily Gazette
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By Bob Weiner/For The Daily Gazette |
May 15, 2021
Steve Quillinan lines up a putt during the finals of the Tri-County Match Play Championship last Sunday. He won his third title. (Bob Weiner)
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The first major championship on the local men’s amateur golf schedule is in the record book, and a few interesting and unexpected story lines developed.
Long-hitting Steve Quillinan Jr., who moved to Boston a couple of years ago yet still is a member of the Country Club of Troy, claimed his third Tri-County Match Play Championship last weekend at Colonie Golf & Country Club with a 3-and-2 win over Tom McGinn, a player largely forgotten except by his many friends.
Down the Fairway: Siena men’s team peaks at right time | The Daily Gazette
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A youthful Siena College men’s golf team appears to be in top form just in time for this weekend’s Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship at Disney’s Magnolia Golf Course in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Siena winds up tournament play Sunday.
The Saints, who last captured the MAAC title back in 2016, hadn’t won a regular-season tournament title since 2007-08, but they pulled off a mild upset by winning the Hartford/Gillette Ridge Invitational at the Gillette Ridge Golf Club last week in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Siena shot a 20-over-par 308 in the 18-hole event to edge MAAC rival Fairfield by 10 strokes and Trinity College by 11.