PGA Professional David Newsom Leads 88th Middle Atlantic PGA Championship

(Williamsburg, Va.) – David Newsom, PGA Director of Instruction at River Creek Club in Leesburg, Va., is the Day 1 leader of the 2013 Middle Atlantic PGA Professional Championship at Colonial Williamsburg’s Golden Horseshoe Golf Club. Newsom started his first round on the par 72 Green Course with birdies on holes #1 and #2 and continued on that birdie train for the rest of the round.  With birdies on holes #4 and #6, Newsom finished the front nine at 4-under par.  He added three more birdies on the back nine at #13, #15 and #17 to complete his bogey-free round at 7-under par.

David Newsom

Not far behind Newsom is Dirk Shultz, PGA Head Professional at Beaver Creek Country Club in Hagerstown, Md. who shot a 5-under par 66 on the Golden Horseshoe’s Green course.  Schultz is coming off a win at the Holden Cup Invitational and a third place finish in the Maryland Open.

Below are results of the top 15 players after round one:
1 David Newsom 65  -7
2 Dirk Schultz 66  -5
T3   Sean English 67  -4
T3   Jim Estes 67  -4
T5   Daniel Kinn 68  -3
T5   Steve Miller 69  -3
T5   Brendon Post 68  -3
T5   Joe Plecker 69  -3
T9   Phil Bowers 69  -2
T9   David Hutsell 69  -2
T9   Dennis Winters 70  -2
T9   Daniel Thore 69  -2
T9   Brice Busse 69  -2
T9   Chip Sullivan 69  -2
T15  Ricky Touma 71  -1

Held at Colonial Williamsburg’s Golden Horseshoe Golf Club, the MAPGA Professional Championship is the premier event of the MAPGA and is a 54-hole stroke play competition. One hundred eighty PGA Professionals from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington D.C., and West Virginia are competing for a $60,000 purse and the Tom Utterbeck trophy. For a fact sheet on the tournament, please click on this link.

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