HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 42
(By Delegate Fragale, Boggs, Caputo, DeLong,
Stalnaker and Iaquinta)
Congratulating Patrick Anthony Reale for winning the West Virginia
Golf Association's 88th State Amateur Golf Championship.
Whereas, Patrick Anthony Reale, a native of Glenville, West
Virginia, grew up playing golf at the Glenville Golf Club, and
community owned nine-hole public course; and
Whereas, Patrick Anthony Reale won his first of two West
Virginia Junior Amateur Golf titles in 1997 at the age of 12; and
Whereas, Patrick Anthony Reale is the only West Virginia Junior
Grand Slam winner (2003-2004) having won the West Virginia High
School Golf Championship in 2003 followed by West Virginia Junior
Match Play Championship and West Virginia Junior Amateur
Championship in 2004; and
Whereas, Patrick Anthony Reale plays collegiate golf at East
Carolina University, where is a second semester senior, maintaining
a perfect 4.0 grade point average; and
Whereas, He and his brother Philip Reale, II, share the East
Carolina school record for lowest single round of play; and
Whereas, Patrick holds the modern competitive course record at
the refurbished Old White Course at The Greenbrier, where he shot
a 66 in the first competitive round played on the redesigned course
during the 2006 West Virginia Amateur Golf Championship; and
Whereas,
On August 9, 2007, after 72 holes tied at even-par and mastering three playoff holes in even-par to give him a two-shot
victory over runner-up Matt Hicks, Patrick won the West Virginia
Golf Association's 88th Amateur Golf Championship at The Greenbrier
Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia; therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Delegates:
That the House of Delegates hereby extends their
congratulations to Patrick Anthony Reale for all of his
accomplishments on and off of the golf course; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of
Delegatesforward a certified copy of this resolution to Patrick
Anthony Reale and his entire family, immediate and extended.