For the second straight year, at least one Coloradan finished in the top 10 — out of 312 players — in the stroke-play portion of the U.S. Amateur.
A year after David Oraee placed second and Jake Staiano was eighth in stroke play, Wyndham Clark of Highlands Ranch pulled off the feat by finishing sixth Tuesday in the U.S. Am at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Clark, Kyler Dunkle of Parker and Colorado State University golfer Colton Yates were among the 64 players who advanced to the match-play portion of the event.
Clark, who will play his final season of college golf at the 2016 national champion University of Oregon after spending his previous years at Oklahoma State, is competing in his fifth U.S. Amateur. He followed up his first-round 69 with a 2-under-par 68 on Tuesday, leaving him at 3-under 137, four strokes behind medalist Alex Smalley of Wake Forest, N.C. Clark (pictured) carded four birdies and two bogeys in Tuesday’s round.
Dunkle rebounded from a 4-over-par 39 on his front nine Tuesday to post a 2-under 33 on his back nine. He overcame back-to-back double bogeys, posting five birdies and three bogeys and finishing stroke play at 141, good for a share of 41st place.
Yates — a resident of Scottsdale, Ariz., and a CSU teammate of Dunkle before the Coloradan transferred to Utah this offseason — fired a 1-under 69 on Tuesday and tied for 30th place at 140. He carded four birdies and three bogeys in round 2.
The match play round of 64 will take place on Tuesday.
Here are the scores, and positions, of all the players with strong Colorado ties among the field of 312:
Advanced to Match Play
6. Wyndham Clark of Highlands Ranch 69-68–137
30. CSU player Colton Yates 71-69–140
41. Kyler Dunke of Parker 69-72–141
Failed to Advance to Match Play
126. Colin Prater of Colorado Springs 75-70–145
126. CSU player Blake Cannon 77-68–145
212. Tanner Jenson of Parker 73-76–149
224. Tristan Rohrbaugh of Carbondale 77-73–150
261. Former CU golfer John Hayes 83-69–152
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