Blue Bell’s Furman wins Montco boys championship

For Blue Bell’s Dan Furman, Friday began a very long and busy stretch of golf — not that he is complaining any.

And with each successive event, he will be stepping up a level in competition.

The 18-year-old recent Ger- mantown Academy graduate teed it up Friday morning at Plymouth Country Club for the Montgomery County Amateur Junior Championship. Saturday and Sunday, he SODyHG Ln WKH RSHn fiHOG IRU WKH Montgomery County Amateur Championship series.

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“I’ve been working hard on my game,” said Furman, who plays out of Commonwealth National Golf Club. “I’ve been trying to play in a lot of amateur tournaments this year. I’ll be playing in the Montco Am and the PA Am, so I’ve been doing that a lot. You get tested on a lot of different types of courses and there is a lot of pressure.”

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Still, as Furman prepares for his freshman season on the Franklin & Marshall golf team, his focus has been on more of the scoring shots.

“I’ve been working mainly on my wedge game, shots like 120 yards and in,” Furman said. “That’s what the Franklin & Marshall coach wants me to do, since that’s where a lot of the big shots come from.

“I’vebeengettingmuchbetterwith distancecontrolwithmywedges.”