Berkshire County Pro Series

36-hole Stroke Play Championship

Taconic Golf Club

September 27

September 27—Just how slick are the greens at Taconic Golf Club?

“If you got above the hole, you got scared,” said Stockbridge head professional Jimmy Marston, who shot consecutive rounds of 2-under 69 and captured his first Berkshire County Pro Series 36-hole Stroke Play Championship yesterday.

While rumors of a five-putt and numerous four-putts circulated from player to player, Marston forged a three-stoke lead after the morning round thanks to a pair of downhill 30-foot birdies on Nos. 10 and 17 that clanged against the back of the hole and dropped.

“If they hadn’t gone in, I would have three-putted,” said Marston, who earned $600 with the victory and clinched the season-long 108-hole cumulative championship. “They were either going to hit the hole and stop, or go off the green.”

On the heels of a successful summer season that included a first and second place finish in a pair of Northeastern New York PGA events, as well as his second consecutive appearance in the PGA Professional National Championship, Marston finally captured one of the few championships that has eluded he took the helm at Stockbridge three years ago.

“I’ve never won it,” Marston said of the Berkshire County Pro Series season finale. “I’ve been close. I knew it was going to be tough to beat Josh Hillman on his home course. He hits it 40 yards past me. We’ve got a bunch of guys in our county that can play.”

Hillman, a first-year assistant at Taconic, authored the only other sub-70 round, a 2-under 69 in the afternoon, to secure runner-up honors and earn $500.

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