76th Men’s Coal Scuttle Championship: Round One

Country Club of Scranton holds two-stroke lead

Country Club of Scranton posted a 24-over-par 312 to seize a two-stroke lead in the 76th Men’s Coal Scuttle Championship at Huntsville Golf Club (par 72, 6,838 yards) Saturday.

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Cade Kelleher lead the team in scoring with a 2-over-par 74. He trails David Mecca, the 2023 individual champion, by three strokes for medalist honors. Huntsville, the event’s defending champion, sits in second place entering the final round.

GAP officials delayed Round Two starting times due to heavy rains in the forecast. Fox Hill Country Club will host the final round beginning at 10 a.m. Sunday.

The Men’s Coal Scuttle Championship, open to all GAP Member Clubs, is a 36-hole tournament. The low four of five scores count toward the team total.

Established in conjunction with the Anthracite Golf Association’s founding in 1951, the Men’s Coal Scuttle Championship is a cornerstone event in which clubs compete against one another to determine regional supremacy. The inscription on the trophy reads as follows:

Once a year and never more
It is writ’ in ancient lore
Four golfing champs shall gather round
And in this scuttle shall be found
Nectar rare to cost them nil
Save the art to drink their fill
The losers must, without rebuttal,
Pay all the cost to fill the Scuttle.

GAP
Celebrating Amateur Golf since 1897, GAP, also known as the Golf Association of Philadelphia, is the oldest regional or state golf association in the United States. It serves as the principal ruling body of amateur golf in its region. The organization’s 345 Member Clubs and 140,000 individual members are spread across Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and Maryland. The GAP’s mission is to promote, preserve and protect the game of golf.