Scialo, Algiero win WGA titles
GREENWICH, Conn. - The moment Stephen Scialo hit his tee shot, he sensed he was in trouble.Then he chased after it and he was certain of it.
It was the first playoff hole of The Journal News/WGA Tournament of Champions at Tamarack Country Club, and the 18-year-old Scialo had just pulled a drive way left and into the adjacent fairway. When he approached what he thought was his ball, with no reasonable shot into the green, he figured the rest of the playoff with Sleepy Hollow's John Ervasti would only be a formality.
"I saw where that ball was and I figured I had no chance," said Scialo, the club champion at Dellwood Country Club in New City, who along with Ervasti posted the day's low score at 3-over-par 73.
But then came the break of the tournament. When Scialo examined the ball, he realized it wasn't his. Then he looked to the left and saw his ball was far enough into the second fairway that he actually had a shot over the trees.
Given new life, the incoming freshman at the University of Delaware sent his pitching-wedge approach to 5 feet, and claimed the Tournament of Champions title with a par against Ervasti's bogey. Just moments earlier, Scialo had been lamenting his position stuck behind a tree. But it ended up being a wayward drive that led him to the title.
"I think I was a little nervous with that first tee shot, but after that, I just realized you have to have no fear," Scialo said. "I couldn't try to do much. All I could do was try to hit it over the trees. I cleared it, but not by much."
With the win, Scialo joined women's winner Laura Algiero of Westchester Hills, who....=================================================
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