The 2016 U.S. Amateur Championship consists of 36 holes of stroke play, followed by six rounds of match play, which begins Wednesday and concludes with Sunday’s 36-hole championship.
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Alex Smalley of Wake Forest, North Carolina, earned the No. 1 seed into match play after leading the contingent with a 7-under 133 through two days. He redshirted his first year with Kansas University and will be playing golf for the Jayhawks this coming year at the Division I level.
“I’ll remember being around a lot of great people and enjoying every day spent on such a great course”, Hughes said of his time in Bloomfield Hills. “A year ago I got a little bit impatient when it was all square through 15, tried to force through things, and just stuck with it today and thankfully came out with a 1-up victory”.
“This is the biggest amateur golf tournament our country hosts, so Andrew has obviously represented himself and A-State well by the way he has performed on a tough golf course against some of the best amateur players in the world”, said A-State head men’s golf coach Mike Hagen. It was nice getting medalist. “It was an honor, but I just had to start right all over again”.
That left one spot, which 2015 U.S. Mid-Amateur champion Scott Harvey won on the seventh playoff hole with par, two holes shy of tying the U.S. Amateur playoff record.
“Looking at the green, I had nearly no shot of stopping it anywhere near the hole, then I hit a Tiger Woods shot and it trickled right in”, Carlson said Tuesday in reference to Woods’ chip in from behind the 16th green in the 2005 Masters.
Smalley will face IL junior Dylan Meyer in the second round. Meyer, from Evansville, Indiana, beat Scotland’s Connor Syme 2 up.
“Mentally I think it’s good to get away from the game for a little bit during the off-season”, Rank said.
Majority of financial advisers mention just one KiwiSaver option Cartoon: The Waikato Chiefs or Mischiefs? . The native of Parker, Colorado, shot a 3-over 73 on the South Course in Monday’s first round and finished stroke-play qualifying with a 36-hole score of 9-over 149.
In the only match to go to extra holes, Alabama sophomore Davis Riley of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, beat high school senior Matthew Wolff of Agoura Hills, California, with a par on the 19th.
“It was a shot that could have ended badly, and I was able to give myself a chance at birdie”.
Three LSU players advanced.
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The first-round match play exit comes as a surprise following a second-place finish for stroke play with a two-day total of 6-under.
