Brian Cairns wins the 2014 Michigan PGA Match Play
presented by GolfMDs.com & PGA Tour !
Midland, MI –
Brian Cairns continued his fine play as of late by defeating John Seltzer 3
& 2 to successfully defend his title and win the 2014 Michigan PGA Match
Play Championship presented by GolfMDs.com & PGA Tour at Midland Country
Club. Brian played steady all day making some great up and downs for par and a
couple clutch birdie putts including one from off the green on hole #15 to go 3
up with 3 to play.
Brian came
into this event after having played the last two weeks on the Champions Tour.
Brian Monday qualified for the event in Calgary as well as the Quebec
Championship that just finished up this past week. This is Brian’s 5th Match
Play Championship title.
Brian advanced
to the finals by defeating Scott Hebert from Grand Traverse Resort in 21 holes.
This was a great match between these two top players that went back and forth
all day. Scott jumped out to an early lead by winning the first two holes.
Brian then won holes #4, #5 and #6 to get back to 1 up. They continued to trade
holes as Scott birdied Hole #12 and then Brian birdied hole #14 to get back to
all square. After making a bogey on Hole #16 Scott birdied hole #17 making the
match all square going into the last hole. Both players made par on the
par 3 18th hole forcing extra holes. After trading pars on the first two
playoff holes Brian birdied the par 5 3rd hole to win the match.
John Seltzer
advanced to the finals by defeating Eric Wohlfield of Macatawa Legends Golf
& CC 6 & 5 in the other morning semifinal match. John made four birdies
in the 13 holes and closed it out by hitting it to 3 feet at the par 3 13th
hole.
This was the
3rd year in a row that Midland Country Club has hosted the Michigan Section
Match Play Championship. We would like to thank them for hosting as they always
do a nice job and the golf course was in great shape.
16 of the top
Michigan PGA Professionals qualified for the Section Match Play Championship
through the Western, Northern & Eastern Chapters as well as the Michigan
PGA Senior Organization.
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The Michigan Section Match Play Championship was presented by
GolfMDs.com & PGA Tour.
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