PLYMOUTH - This weekend, August 22 through 23, the Canasawacta Country Club held their annual Club Championship. It was a tight race in which Tom Muserilli edged out some stiff competition to take home top honors.

A beautiful weekend for golf ended Sunday afternoon as Tom Muserilli beat out longtime members an former champions Paul Brunick and Bob Branham for the top spot in the Club Championship. Brunick won last year’s championship and was looking to repeat while Branham has won the tournament multiple times before. This is Muserilli’s first win at Canasawacta. “Tom shot a 64 in his first round.” said Club President Tim Carson. “That’s his low round for the year and the lowest at the course for the year, a 64 here or anywhere is very impressive.”

“I played really well the first round,” said Tom Muserilli. “It was my short game that really saved me. I didn’t always get the ball where I wanted it and having to go up and down the green was tough. I’m very happy with the way my short game held up.”

Finishing seven strokes under par on the first round of the tournament, Muserilli kept the magic going and shot a 66 in the first round of the final day of the tournament which is a 36 hole day where the golfers have to play back to back rounds.

Muserilli started off nine strokes ahead of Branham and ten ahead of Brunick going into the third and final round. “I didn’t start off the greatest in the third round,” Muserilli said. “My short game wasn’t on and it showed. People don’t realize that when they say that your short game can make or break you, it really can. This time it helped me save par on the later holes.”

After his first mishap, Muserilli stepped his game up and played the final 11 holes one over par, edging out Brunick by two and Branham by three, making him the winner for the weekend. “Being as it is my first win I think the nerves got to me a bit,” Muserilli said. “I wasn’t putting as well and it made the scores a lot closer than they could have. That being said this just makes me appreciate the win even more.”

In the women’s division it was all Patty Cwynar. Cwynar won the women’s division handily, shooting a 162 on the weekend, easily beating out the competition.

Scoring for each flight is as follows (Gross is overall score for the weekend. Net is total score after handicap deductions):

Men Gross

1 – Tom Muserilli 64-66-77 207

2 – Paul Brunick 70-70-69 209

3 – Bob Branham 71-68-71 210

Men Net

1 – Mark Matott 68-63 131