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PG North: Butler club pro earns trip to major
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Thursday, August 05, 2010
By Chris Adamski, Tri-State Sports & News Service

Rob McClellan finished among the top 10 at the WPIAL golf championships his senior season and went on to become a solid collegiate golfer at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va.

A 1998 Butler Area High School graduate, McClellan always knew his way around the course. But as he put it, "I wasn't a great player" at the Division I school. "As a sophomore I averaged 76-77, nothing great."

Safe to say that it's likely that of the players who finished better than him at the WPIAL championship his senior year or had a scoring average lower than him in college, there aren't many -- if any -- who will play in a PGA Championship tournament.

A 30-year-old Butler resident, he earned an entry into the 92nd PGA Championship Monday through Aug. 15 at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wis.

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