SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 38
(By Senators Tomblin, Mr. President, Prezioso, McCabe, Edgell,
Unger, Jenkins and Foster)
Congratulating Patrick Anthony Reale on 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, a
community owned nine-hole public golf course; and
Whereas, Patrick Anthony Reale won his first of two West
Virginia Junior Amateur Golf titles in 1997 at age 12; and
Whereas, Patrick Anthony Reale is the only West Virginia
Junior Grand Slam winner (2003-2004) who won the West Virginia High
School Golf Championship followed by the West Virginia Junior Match
Play Championship and West Virginia Junior Amateur Championship;
and
Whereas, Patrick Anthony Reale plays collegiate golf at East
Carolina University, where he is a second semester senior and has
maintained 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 Anthony Reale holds the modern competitive
course record at the refurbished Old White Course at The
Greenbrier, where he shot 66 in the first competitive round played on the redesigned course in the first round of the 2006 West
Virginia Amateur Golf Championship; and
Whereas, On August 9, 2007, at the end of 72 holes and a
three-hole playoff, Patrick Anthony Reale won the West Virginia
Golf Association's 88th State Amateur Golf Championship at The
Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia;
therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate:
That the Senate hereby congratulates Patrick Anthony Reale on
winning the West Virginia Golf Association's 88th State Amateur
Golf Championship; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Senate hereby extends its
congratulations to Patrick Anthony Reale for all of his
accomplishments on and off the golf course; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk is hereby directed to forward
a copy of this resolution to Patrick Anthony Reale and his family.