Cullen/Lefebre Repeat as BDGA Two-Man Scramble Champions
Cory Cullen and David Lefebre (East Aurora CC) successfully defended their BDGA Two-Man Scramble title on Monday, combining to shoot 63 (-8) at Niagara Frontier GC to win the first championship of the 2025 Buffalo District season.
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The 2024 champions started scoring quickly with three birdies in their first five holes. After adding another on hole 8 to improve their score to four-under, Cullen and Lefebre found themselves near the top of the leaderboard as they made the turn, alongside Matt Messing/Dan Sadowski (-4) and David Militello/Dave Taylor (-5).
Cullen and Lefebre joined Militello and Taylor at the top after a birdie on the 11th. Then, Cullen and Lefebre rattled off another hot stretch, with back-to-back-to-back birdies on holes 14-16 to improve to eight-under. That ended up being enough to secure victory, as Messing/Sadowski gained a pair of strokes on the back while Militello/Taylor picked up just one. Both teams finished at six-under and placed third and fourth, respectively. Matt Scalfani and Jeff Janese finished runner-up, also at six-under, thanks to an impressive back-nine 30 that included five birdies.
In the Senior Division, Jim Berrigan and PJ Alterio won in a card-off after shooting six-under in regulation alongside Perry Pedini and Michael Grace. The two teams had an even back-nine score of 32, but Alterio and Berrigan had the better score across the final six holes, giving them the edge over Pedini and Grace.
There was also a concurrent “B-Division” conducted in this championship, reserved for double-digit handicap teams. Christopher Pettis and James Parker emerged victorious in a slim one-stroke margin.
