Last year, Jason Thresher worked against history.

This week he made it.

The Crestview Country Club member won the 108th Massachusetts Open Wednesday to become the first golfer representing a Western Massachusetts golf club to repeat as champion. Thresher posted a two-stroke victory at the 54-hole event, which took place at TGC at Sacconnesset in East Falmouth.

Thresher finished at 7-under-par 209 after closing with a 3-under 69 at the Cape Cod course. The resident of West Suffield, Conn., birdied three of his last eight holes and five overall to edge out Chris Houston (70) of Gilford, N.H., and Chris Salah (67) of Bass Rocks GC.

Billy Walthouse of Longmeadow tied for fifth place, using a final-round 70 to post a 2-under 214. Other Western Mass. contenders included Matt Naumec (tied for 35th, 222) of GreatHorse and Cold Spring CC's Chris Tallman (t58, 229).

Thresher, 28, opened with rounds of 69 and 71, before making birdies at two of this first three holes Wednesday. He added another at No. 11 and then a pair at the 14th and 15th holes.

Thresher's win last year was tough to follow, after he became the first Western Mass. champion since Haydenville's Bob Toski won it in 1958 at Hyannisport Club. Thresher went wire-to-wire in 2016, using a 7-foot birdie putt at the final hole to force a three-hole aggregate playoff at Worcester CC. He had tied for third in 2015.

Marshfield CC's Geoff Sisk was the last back-to-back champion, winning in 2006 and '07.

Last week, Thresher finished as runner-up at the Cape Cod open after falling in a playoff to Joshua Eure of Crofton, Md. The former Bryant University standout was the Northeast Conference Player-of-the-Year as a senior in 2010.

LOCAL NOTES: Connor Phillips of Longmeadow CC qualified for the New England Amateur Championship. He posted a 78 to tie for 12th place and secure the final qualifying spot among the 17 at stake at The Golf Club at Oxford Greens in Oxford, Conn. The New England Am takes place July 18-20 at Metacomet CC in East Providence, R.I. ... Angela Garvin of Feeding Hills finished seventh at a qualifier for the U.S. Women's Open. Garvin posted two rounds of 76 to finish 13 strokes behind Denmark's Nanna Madsen, the lone qualifier at South Shore CC in Hingham ... Edgewood GC pro Bob Mucha Jr. teamed with Paul Couture, Todd Ezold and Joe Vanoudenhove to win a Connecticut Section PGA Pro-Senior Am event at Keney Park GC in Hartford ... Twenty-eight locals will be among 66 competing at a June 20 qualifier at CC of Wilbraham for the Massachusetts Amateur. The Amateur takes place July 10-1 at Charles River CC in Newton.

PRO NOTES: Tour rookie Richy Werenski and GreatHorse pro Billy Downes will compete next week at the PGA Tour's Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands at Cromwell, Conn. Werenski, who will make his Hartford debut, has made 10 of 18 cuts and has won $334,009 this season. Downes, who qualified as the Connecticut Section PGA Spring Stroke Play champion, will make his second appearance at the event ... Jordan Spieth will joined World No. 2 Rory McIlroy and No. 3 Jason Day in the Travelers Field. Other commits to the June 22-25 event include Justin Thomas, Patrick Reed, Bubba Watson, Jim Furyk and defending champion Russell Knox. More details and ticket information can be found at www.travelerschampionship.com ... Fox carries final round coverage of the U.S. Open, Sunday from 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

JUNE SCHEDULE: Here is a look at some of the major golf tournaments planned for the month of June in Western Massachusetts. Please note, the following list does not include numerous fundraiser tournaments scheduled across the region:

