Alex Weir's EDGA agony ends with dramatic Amateur Tournament win at the Kahkwa Club
Weir became the first golfer in the competition's 105-year history who placed in the top three for five straight years.
That would have been agonizing for the former Kahkwa Club employee to hear if he hadn't been holding its championship trophy for the first time.
Weir, who also lost the EDGA's 2021 and 2022 Match Play finals, finally prevailed in one of its majors. He survived a dramatic dual, one that wasn't determined until the tournament's last shot.
Garcia, who was four strokes out of first place at the start of the round, rallied to tie Weir at 7-under as they approached the par-4 18th hole. Each were on that green in two, but Garcia's three-putt bogey all but ended the possibility of a playoff.
Weir, 36, ended his four-year run of near-misses when converted an easy par chance. The celebration began seconds later when three-year-old Carson and two-year-old Austin ran onto the course and hugged their father.
Amy Weir also was in the gallery for her husband's victory, which he ranked first for his golf career.
'It's always hard to win the first one of these (EDGA tournaments),' Alex Weir said, 'and then there were all those (former) second-place finishes. And then Mike played especially well on the back nine. I was playing well, but he had all the momentum. Yeah, I started to wonder then if (an EDGA win) was ever going to happen.
'That's why this one is up there.'
Weir closed with an even-par 72 for a 54-hole total of 209.
Garcia, also a Kahkwa member, was the Amateur's silver medalist despite red numbers each round. His 6-under 210 consisted of 70-71-69.
Matt Barto, the EDGA's 2022 Match Play victor, was third at 2-under 214.
Former Cathedral Prep golfers Evan Rowane and Breckin Taylor tied for fifth at 3-over 219.
Rowane was the tournament's 2024 winner. Taylor, thanks to June's Match Play win at Lake Shore Country Club, sought a sweep of the EDGA's 2025 majors.
More: Cathedral Prep golf grad Breckin Taylor adds another title to his name at EDGA Match Play
Contact Mike Copper at mcopper@timesnews.com. Follow him on X @ETNcopper.
This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: Alex Weir ends years of EDGA near-miss results with Amateur title
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