2014 USGA State Team Selected
Josephson, Ballo and Pastore to Represent
Connecticut in USGA State Team
Championship
Kevin Josephson of New Britain and Farmington
Country Club, Peter Ballo of Stamford and
Woodway Country Club, and David Pastore of
Greenwich and Oak Hills Park Golf Club will
represent Connecticut in the USGA Men’s State
Team Championship September 30 through
October 2.
The 2015 Championship will be contested
over 54 holes of stroke play at the French Lick
Resort in French Lick, Indiana. Team scores are
recorded each round using the best two of three
scores from each team. All 50 U.S. States plus
Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico are entered in
the 11th playing of the biennial event.
Josephson, Ballo and Pastore all have
impressive resumes. Josephson has twice
been medalist in the Connecticut Amateur
Championship, most recently in 2013. He reached
the finals of match play at the 2014 Connecticut
Amateur finishing as runner-up, and finished
tied for 16th in the 2014 New England Amateur.
In 2013 he finished 4th in the Russell C. Palmer
Cup and qualified for both the USGA Amateur
Championship and the USGA Public Links where
he reached the round of 32 in match play.
“It’s really an honor to be part of this
team,” said Josephson. “It’s something that
a lot of players strive for, to play well enough
to earn a spot in this championship, to
represent Connecticut and the CSGA in a USGA
championship.”
Ballo was runner-up in the 2013 Connecticut
Amateur, and has recorded a number of top-5
and top-10 finishes in stroke play tournaments.
In 2014 he was 5th in the Palmer Cup, tied for
5th in the Connecticut Open, and tied for 9th in
the New England Amateur. In his final season at
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Connecticut State Golf Association
Sacred Heart University Ballo won the 2014
New England Division I Championship, the
Northeast Conference individual title, and
was named the NEC Player of the Year.
Pastore, a 2014 graduate of the
University of Virginia had an extraordinary
summer following an outstanding senior
season. He won the 2014 Jim West
Intercollegiate with a record setting 54-hole
score of 13 under par, and was named to
the Division I PING All-East Region team. In
June he captured the Met Golf Association’s
“Ike” Stroke Play Championship and finished
tied for 12th in the Northeast Amateur. In
July he won the Westchester GA Open,
qualified for the USGA Public Links and was
low amateur and tied for third overall in the
Connecticut Open. In August he completed a
“Met Double” by winning the MGA Amateur
in dramatic fashion, making a hole-in-one on
the 35th hole of the final match to capture
the title.