Andrew Orischak won three matches Friday in the weather-delayed U.S. Junior Amateur to reach the 36-hole final.
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Lowe, playing on the 7,366 yard, Par-72 Dye Course at Colleton River Plantation Club in South Carolina, faced off with Philip Barbaree, from Louisiana, in the Round of 16, and lost 3 and 1. He tied it with a par about the par-4 36th and gained having a bogey about the par-4 37th.
“It’s definitely the biggest junior tournament out there and to win it means a lot”, Barbaree said. “It claims a-lot about how much I’ve been training for this and I’ve been employed by this”.
Barbaree matched the largest comeback in event history.
Orischak, through his dad, made a deal with Sonders earlier in the tournament whereby she would agree to go to his Hilton Head-area high school prom if he won the championship on Saturday. “And it wasn’t me because I got ahead of myself”. “I played probably the best round I had all week”.
In a photo provided by the USGA, Andrew Orischak watches his tee shot on the 18th hole during match … Barbaree and Lee were all square through 17 holes when their semifinal match was suspended because of darkness.
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The field at the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship started with 156 and was whittled down to 64 after two rounds of stroke play.
