Rohanna pleased with top-10 finish
Robert Rohanna left Teeth of the Dog Casa de Campo golf course Saturday feeling good about the way he played, and well he should.
The Waynesburg Central graduate finished tied for fifth at the Casa de Campo Dominican Republic Open with a four-round score of 5-under 283.
Rohanna closed with an even-par 72. He finished one stroke away from a tie for second place.
Rohanna earned $6,387.50 for his first top-10 finish of the season, jumping to 25th on the money list (Order of Merit) with earnings of $10,627 in six events (four cuts).
American Timothy O’Neal finished first with a score of 10-under 278.
Rohanna’s final round mirrored his previous three. He bogeyed No. 6 to slip to 4-under for the tournament, but then rebounded with three birdies over the next six holes to move to 7-under. The give-and-take then took two strokes with back-to-back bogeys with four holes to play.
Rohanna scored 18 birdies over the four rounds, but also had 13 bogeys.
“I played well today,” Rohanna said via Facebook Messenger. “I didn’t take advantage of the par-5s, and that’s the only reasonably easy holes out there. I didn’t hit bad shots. I just misjudged the wind twice, one long and one short on No. 15 and No. 16 for my two bogeys on the back.
“I played the par-5s even today and lipped inside 10 feet on all of them.”
Rohanna now makes a quick layover in Greene County because he’ll be playing in the U.S. Open qualifier Monday at the Pete Dye Golf Club in Bridgeport, West Virginia.