chris blocher

OLEAN — Two 20-year-old college juniors, a veteran who has been in this spot some two dozen times and a teenager who’s had an incredible summer on the...

Call it the law of unintended consequences. Last August, Chris Blocher, inarguably the Southwestern New York-Northwestern Pennsylvania Men’s Amateur G...

OLEAN — Over a span of two weeks, Bartlett Country Club was doused with nearly a foot of rain. That left some golf junkies to speculate the wet greens...

OLEAN — On a day that produced two holes-in-one and saw a pair former champions ousted from the Championship Flight, Thursday’s opening round of match...

OLEAN — Bartlett Country Club was supposedly playing “easier” for Wednesday’s medal qualifying round of the 84th Annual Southwestern New York-Northwes...

OLEAN — Jon Kirk, a long-time committee member of the Southwestern New York-Northwestern Pennsylvania Men’s Amateur Golf Tournament, gazed back at the...

OLEAN — A field of 116 golfers, the largest since 2009 – including seven former champions – is set for the 84th renewal of the Southwestern New York-N...

This year, the theme is variety. Since its inception in 2015, the Times Herald’s recollection of the top 10 local sports stories of the year has large...

OLEAN — After Mitch Faulkner earned a berth in the finals of the 83rd Southwestern New York-Northwestern Pennsylvania Men’s Amateur Golf Tournament Sa...

OLEAN — Two of the four players who made Saturday’s semifinals of the 83rd Southwestern New York-Northwestern Pennsylvania Men’s Amateur Golf Tourname...

OLEAN — The noon-time thudershower created a major delay in the first round of the 83rd renewal of the Southwestern New York-Northwestern Pennsylvania...

HINSDALE — Hinsdale boys basketball Chris Blocher didn’t want to look at the stat sheet afterward. He didn’t want to remember in particular the way th...

OLEAN — The cover story in this year’s Southwestern New York-Northwestern Pennsylvania Men’s Amateur Golf Tournament booklet ends with a prescient obs...

OLEAN — Come Sunday at Bartlett Country Club, the annual Southwestern New York-Northwestern Pennsylvania Men’s Amateur could well have a first-time ch...

OLEAN — It was a year ago, minus two days, that Chris Blocher and Nolan Ditcher staged one of the most dramatic finals in the history of the Southwest...

OLEAN — Last August, Nolan Ditcher lost a heartbreaker in the finals of the Southwestern New York-Northwestern Pennsylvania Men’s Amateur Golf Tournam...

OLEAN — In the first 20 times the Shootout of Former Champions was held, there was never one quite like what unfolded on Tuesday evening at Bartlett C...

Three years later, a favorite has emerged from the Times Herald’s now-annual year-end top 10 local sports stories piece. Predictably, it’s the St. Bon...