Two players with significant Colorado connections recorded sixth-place finishes Sunday in major tour golf, while a Colorado-based net amateur likewise placed sixth — in his case at the pro-am for the PGA Tour’s AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
Former Castle Pines resident Esteban Toledo tied for sixth at the PGA Tour Champions’ Allianz Championship, the event he won last year.
Meanwhile, former University of Denver women’s golfer Tonje Daffinrud posted her best showing ever on the Ladies European Tour by sharing sixth place at the season-opening Oates Vic Open in Australia.
And Pat Hamill (pictured), founder of the Colorado Open Golf Foundation and the CEO of Oakwood Homes, teamed with PGA Tour player Matt Every to likewise tie for sixth in the Pebble Peach pro-am competition. Despite Every missing the cut by 10 shots, he and Hamill carded rounds of 62-68-67-64 for a 26-under-par 261 total, which left them seven strokes behind winners Ken Duke and amateur partner Carson Daly. Hamill and Every played with former Colorado State University golfer Martin Laird and his partner on Sunday.
Daffinrud, who placed 10th at the women’s NCAA finals as a DU senior in 2014, shot rounds of 70-74-70-69 for a 9-under-par 283 total at the Vic Open. In ending up seven strokes behind champion Melissa Reid, Daffinrud earned 10,290 euros.
As for Toledo, who’s won four times in his Champions career, he carded scores of 69-67-66 for a 14-under-par 202 total in Boca Raton, Fla. Scott McCarron prevailed at 17-under 199.
