2025 4-Ball Preview

New champions to be crowned in 2025 Men’s and Women’s Four-Ball events

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The challenging Donald Ross layout at the Country Club of York will provide the test for 54 teams when the Pennsylvania Golf Association’s (PAGA) 35^th men’s and 5^th women’s four-ball 2025 championship takes place Monday and Tuesday June 2-3. The event is sponsored by DICK’S Sporting Goods.

While titles will not be defended in either competition there are plenty of teams that could be grabbing the hardware at the end of the 36 holes. Some with plenty of experience in the event, some not so much. All will be put to a significant test when they face Ross’ signature greenside contours and bunkering (59 in all!) and intricate green surfaces. Additionaly, for the first time, the Men's and Women's titles will be contested at the same site and the same time.

On the women’s side, newcomers will be looking to get their names on the list of past winners. Defending champions Stefania Fedun and Mary Dunigan are not entered this year. Just one team in the field, Jocelyn Abel (Regents Glen Country Club and Molly Gorman (Wyoming Valley Country Club) has won a past four-ball championship, that coming in 2021. The duo dominated the field in that event winning by 14 shots.

In addition, 2023 titlist McKylie Boreman (Carlisle Country Club) returns in search of another crown but will do so with a new partner, Charley Kirby (West Shore Country Club). Boreman won All-Middle Atlantic Conference first-team honors at Alvernia College this spring for the fourth time in her collegiate career and won an MAC individual title in 2024. Kirby was the top player in her final year for Millersville University this season and finished third in the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championships.

Other contenders could include another pair of PSAC competitors Brooke Graham (Carlisle Country Club) and Emilee Barkley (Moselem Springs Golf Club). The dupo finished tied for fourth place a year ago. Graham has posted two top three PSAC finishes in her first two seasons at Kutztown University and Barkley was a member of a West Chester University team that finished as runner-up by just four shots to six-time champion Gannon. And, Rhianna Gooneratne (The 1912 Club) and Bryn Krosse (Regents Glenn Country Club) are another duo to watch.  Gooneratne won the Pennsylvania state high school AAA title in 2023 and was runner-up this season and was third in last year’s PAGA junior girls’ competition.

Competing for the Mayor’s Trophy in the men’s draw could provide some real entertainment and ball striking. Past success by multiple teams points to a wide-open field and some newcomers with credentials could jump into the fray early. Colin Smith (Biderman Golf Club) and Sam Pancoast (Radley Run Country Club) missed the tile by just a shot last year while Grant Skyllas (LedgeRock Golf Club) and Jake Haberstumpf (The Steel Club) weren’t far behind in third.

Smith and Pancoast have been in serious contention each of the last three events finishing in the top six all three times, while Skyllas with different partners has been in the top three teams each time in the past two years. Last season, Smith and Pancoast made an impressive second day run with an opening-nine 30 and catching the leaders and eventual winners, Anthony Cordaro and Evan Eichenlaub (Saucon Valley Country Club), on the next-to-last hole only to see the winners go into deeper red to win their second-consecutive title. Smith and Pancoast’s 64 helped them move past Skyllas and Haberstumpf, who finished third by a shot, to contend late on the final day.

Another 2025 entrant Andrew Forjan (Royal Manchester Golf Links) and William Gekas (Regents Glen Country Club) matched that second-day low score of 64 and allowed them to finish fourth. Also entered are the lone team in the field to win a past four-ball title, Glenmaura National Golf Club’s Eric Williams and Jim Gardas. That duo won the title in 2008 and has posted multiple high finishes in other seasons, including 8^th a year ago.

As always, new pairings can make an immediate impact on the field and this year is no exception.  Adding to an already deep collection of possible contenders are a pair of brother teams and a duo with impressive individual accomplishments.  The team of Peyton Mussina (Williamsport Country Club) and Logan Paczewski (Huntsville Golf Club) have enjoyed recent success with Paczewski winning the Golf Association of Philadelphia’s (GAP) Joseph H. Patterson Cup title in 2023 and Mussina finishing as runner-up in PAGA’s R. Jay Sigel Match Play Championship last summer.

The Temple University brother pair of Matthew and Michael Vital (Northampton Country Club) and Huntsville Golf Club’s Eli and Cael Ropietski, who play at the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown and Marshall University, respectively, enjoyed junior level successes and now will join the battle for an amateur title.

The team in the field with the most recent success is Frank Kacvinsky (Country Club of Scranton) and Alex Anderson (Huntsville Golf Club). They won the GAP’s Anthracite Region Ben Marshall Four-Ball title last Thursday with a seven-under par winning score at Wyoming Valley Country Club.

The next events on the PAGA schedule after York will be four qualifiers for the 112^th Pennsylvania Amateur Championship wrapped around the junior boys’ and junior girls’ championships. Those qualifiers will be at Elmhurst Country Club (June 18), Outdoor Country Club (June 19), LuLu Country Club (June 30) and Ligonier Country Club (July 1). The junior events are scheduled for 54-holes over two days, June 23-24 with the boys at the Hershey Country Club East Course and the girls at Lebanon Country Club.