David Anthony captures second consecutive FSGA super-senior player of the year award

David Anthony of Jacksonville has gone back-to-back in winning a Florida State Golf Association player of the year award.

Anthony was named the FSGA super-senior player of the year for the second time in a row. He won three FSGA championships to give him11 in his amateur career.

“I had a great year and it’s been a real blessing to me,” Anthony said in a statement. “I’ve enjoyed playing in FSGA events and it is such a big part of my life.”

Anthony won his second FSGA super-senior amateur championship in April with a closing at The Fox Club. He's the first player in FSGA history to win the tournament in consecutive years.

He also teamed up with Randy Elliott to capture the FSGA super-senior four-ball title in October, and won the FSGA two-man scramble in August with Steve Sponder.

Anthony was the runner-up at the FSGA senior match play and tied for fourth in the FSGA 40 and over championship.

Closer to home, he was third in the Jacksonville Area Golf Association senior championship and tied for 17th in the Jacksonville amateur.

Anthony will be honored at the FSGA annual dinner in Boynton Beach at The Club at Quail Ridge in February.

Joe Alfieri of Tampa was named the amateur and mid-amateur player of the year, Miles McConnell of Tampa earned senior player of the year; Elle Nachmann of Boca Raton earned women's amateur of the year, and Kim Keyer-Scott of Bonita Springs was named the women's senior amateur player of the year.

The junior players of the year are Kiko Coelho and Karoline Tuttle, both of Lake Mary. Coelho is a freshman at Arizona State and Tuttle signed with Florida last week.

Maxwell honored

The inaugural Billy Maxwell Memorial Tournament was held on Thursday at Hyde Park, honoring the seven-time PGA Tour winner and Hyde Park owner who passed away on Sept. 20 at the age of 92.

A two-play scramble tournament was held, with a field of 68. John Milton and Brad Rollinson shooting 12-under 60 to beat past PGA Tour and PGA Tour Champions winner Bob Dickson and Jeff Adams; and Bruce Wallace and Rich Langille by two shots in the gross division. Hank Veno and Donald Lewis Jr., had a 59 to win the net division by one shot over Judd Nieman and Todd Demsey, with five-time PGA Tour winner Blaine McCallister and Paul Abdulla finishing third, another shot behind.

One of Maxwell's championships was the 1951 U.S. Amateur, and three other past U.S. Amateur champions played, Dickson, former PGA Tour commissioner Deane Beman and Bubba Dickerson.

World Golf Hall of Fame member Dennis Walters conducted an exhibition before the tournament.

Hyde Park owner Melanie Bevill, Maxwell's daughter, has hopes that the tournament will be an annual event.

Aging well

Tom Lupinacci turned back the clock last week.

Lupinacci is a club pro from Montauk, N.Y., who spends the fall and winter in Ponte Vedra and plays with the "Munchkins," the band of charter TPC Sawgrass and former PGA Tour players and executives who get together several times a week.

Lupinacci not only bettered his age three times, but within days of each round, and at the two TPC Sawgrass courses. Lupinacci, 78, shot 71 at the Players Stadium Course and 67 and 75 at Dye's Valley.

Matching his age at the Stadium Course was Peter Kuchar of Ponte Vedra Beach, who shot 71.

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