 Jon
Veneziano fired a three-round tournament total of
1-under par 215 to win the Florida State Public Links
Championship at Grande Pines Golf Club in
Orlando on July 21-23.
Jon Veneziano, of Mount Dora, played steady golf
to post scores of 73-71-71 to win the Championship by
six strokes. Veneziano’s back-to-back scores of 71 were
the only under par rounds of the tournament. With
threatening weather on the final day, Veneziano jumped
ahead of the field holing out for eagle on the par four
9th hole. This is Veneziano’s second state title as he
won last year’s Mid-Amateur Championship.
Jimi Brindell, the first and second round
co-leader, recorded a 77 in the final round to fall to
second place. Brindell, of Tequesta, shot a pair of 72’s
in the first two rounds to give him a share of the lead
after each round. Brindell’s second round 72 included a
two stroke penalty. Devin Patel, of Celebration,
posted scores of 76-72-75—223 to take third place while
the 2001 Public Links Champion Paul Melson, of
Plantation, placed fourth with a 226 total. The 2004 and
2005 Public Links Champion Robert Parker, of Sanford,
tied for 14th place. Another Mount Dora resident,
Curt Madson, won the first flight shooting a 231
total and Kenneth Roy, of Jacksonville, and
Robert Cupper, of Hollywood, shared top honors in
the second flight with a 242 total.
The Public Links Championship is open to bona fide
public course players who are not members of a private
club and also do not have a handicap index any higher
than 6.4. Competitors played 18 holes of stroke play on
each of the three days with the field flighted after 36
holes.
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