2011 Club & Class Winners

Sarnoff overcomes obstacles to win Pasadena City Championship
By Nathan Cambridge, Correspondent
Posted: 05/15/2011 10:05:09 PM PDT
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PASADENA - Jake Sarnoff overcame difficult conditions to shoot a final round of 1-under 71 and win the 76th Pasadena City Golf Championship on Sunday at Brookside Golf Club.

"I played pretty solid today," Sarnoff said. "Didn't make too many mistakes. It was tough conditions with the wind and stuff like that."

Sarnoff was the only player in the championship flight to break par in the final round played on Brookside's demanding C.W. Koiner Course, which plays to a par 72 and stretches to close to 7,000 yards. The Loyola Marymount standout finished the four-day event at 4-under 282 and won by six strokes over third-round leader Dan Sullivan, a Brookside member.

Sarnoff reached 4-under Sunday with a chip-in on the par-three 13th hole.

"It was about a 40-foot chip," Sarnoff said in describing the shot. "I was just trying to get it close and it happened to go in. That really helped me on the back side because I had just bogeyed the hole before that.

"That got my momentum going and after that I just played pretty much even-par golf the rest of the way in and it was good enough."

Sullivan came into the final round with a two-stroke lead over Sarnoff, but could not hold on to the advantage as he struggled to the finish with a 6-over 79. Sullivan finished at 288.

"I played really poorly," Sullivan said of his final round. "The conditions were really tough and I just hit a lot of bad shots on the first few holes.

"I got away with a couple then came back into the wind and didn't get away with them anymore."

Last year it was Sarnoff who led in the final round only to struggle and finish back in the pack.

"Second time around it feels a lot better to come out on top," said Sarnoff, who was coming off a victory at UC Riverside's recent Bravehart Classic.

In third place was Shane Rutherford, who claimed his spot on the final hole. Patrick Carrigan and Rutherford were tied teeing off on the par-4 18th and Rutherford was lying three on the green after Carrigan reached the putting surface in regulation.

Carrigan, however, barely missed a long birdie putt and a short comebacker for par. Rutherford rolled in his par putt to finish with a four-day total of 293.

"When (Carrigan) missed that little putt for par on 18 and I made mine it was kind of like, `Oh boy, he left the door open for me,' so it was fun," said Rutherford, who missed the cut last year.

Defending champion Greg Moss shot a final-round 79 for a four-round total of 302. 
 

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