This year’s U.S. Senior Amateur, played Aug. 29-Sept. 3 at Baltimore Country Club, featured three men age over 70 or older. Rick Cloninger, at 69, was close behind them.
“It’s harder to get there than it is to play in the golf tournament at that point,” Cloninger said of players closer to 70 than 55 in this event.
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Still, Cloninger, who hails from Rock Hill, South Carolina, played his way into the premier championship for players 55 and over by finishing second in an 18-hole qualifier at Pinewild Country Club in Pinehurst, North Carolina, on July 27. The week at Baltimore CC marked his ninth U.S. Senior Amateur. His history in the…
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