Holtgrieve still has something to give to area golf - STLtoday.com
Holtgrieve will be among 156 players in the field when the 25th Metropolitan Amateur Golf Association Amateur Championship begins at 7:30 a. m. Thursday at Boone Valley Golf Club. “I just decided the opportunity is there, I don’t have any business conflicts and I thought, ‘What the heck, let’s go back and play,’” Holtgrieve said of his reemergence. Because when I was a punk kid, I came out and those guys were playing and they were a big influence on me. So I thought I’m going to go play and maybe do for some of the young kids what they did for me. ”. If you get the idea this is nothing more... Holtgrieve played in the St. Louis District Griesedieck Championship at Old Warson last week and — 26 years later — nearly won the trophy for the fifth time. “I’ve just been playing more, trying to make some changes, trying to get more consistent … I still love to play,” Holtgrieve said. He played on winning Walker Cup squads in 1979, 1981 and 1983. He was on two victorious World Amateur Team Championship editions (1980, 1982). He was a semifinalist at the 1980 U. S. Amateur, a runner-up at the 1983 British Amateur, the winner of... Holtgrieve played in five Masters Tournaments — making the cut three times — and qualified into the 1978. Source: www.stltoday.com
