Stroke-play co-medalist Greg Condon from the southern Colorado town of Monte Vista and Scott Sullivan (left) of Grand Junction scored victories Monday in the match play round of 64 at Eugene Country Club in Oregon.
Condon, who qualified for the Senior Amateur in Sandia Park, N.M., defeated Kirk Wright of Oklahoma City, 4 and 3. And the 47th-seeded Sullivan won the 18th hole with a par to beat 18th seed Louis Brown of Marietta, Ga., 1 up.
Condon, competing in this national championship for the second time, lost the first hole with a bogey but led most of the day. He won four holes in a six-hole stretch starting on No. 4 to go 3 up after nine, then closed out the match with a birdie on No. 15. Condon finished 1 over par for 15 holes.
“Today, I was a little off,” Condon told the USGA. “I didn’t play very well. I would mess up and he would mess up. That’s how it went. I hit a couple good shots when I needed to. Sometimes, match play goes that way.”
Condon will face former PGA Tour player Buzz Fly of Memphis, Tenn., in the round of 32, one of two match play rounds scheduled for Tuesday. Fly went to the semifinals of the U.S. Senior Amateur in 2013.
Sullivan played in a match in which neither player was ever more than 1 up. Brown held that 1-up lead through 14, but Sullivan won Nos. 15 and 18 with pars to pull out the victory. Sullivan, who made one birdie on Monday, was 4 over par for the round.
In Tuesday’s round of 32, Sullivan will meet Jeff New of Scottsdale, Ariz.
Here are the results for the Coloradans competing this week in the U.S. Senior Amateur:
MATCH PLAY ROUND OF 64
Greg Condon, Monte Vista, def. Kirk Wright, Oklahoma City, 4 and 3
Scott Sullivan, Grand Junction, def. Louis Brown, Marietta, Ga., 1 up
STROKE PLAY
Advance to Match Play
T1. Greg Condon, Monte Vista 67-72–139
41. Scott Sullivan, Grand Junction 80-71–151
Failed to Advance to Match Play
93. Guy Mertz, Longmont 80-76–156
For all the results from the championship, CLICK HERE.
The first-year player from Wake Forest finished tied for sixth place individually Monday at the Women’s NCAA Division I Finals in Eugene, Ore.
Kupcho (left), who qualified for the U.S. Women’s Open a week ago in Colorado, entered Monday’s final round in second place, but six out of the lead. A 2-over-par 74 in round 4 didn’t allow her to make a run at the title, but she was in the top four until finishing with back-to-back bogeys.
Kupcho’s 5-under-par 283 total at Eugene Country Club was 11 behind individual national champion Virginia Elena Carta, a freshman from Duke.
Kupcho, the two-time CWGA Player of the Year, finished her freshman season on a strong note, with four consecutive top-six finishes, including a runner-up in the ACC Championships.
The two-time Colorado state high school champion currently sits No. 43 in the Women’s World Amateur Golf Rankings.
For all the scores from the Women’s DI Finals, CLICK HERE.
(Updated May 24) On Tuesday, both Kupcho and University of Colorado junior Esther Lee were honored by the Women’s Golf Coaches Association. Lee was named a Second-Team All-American and Kupcho an Honorable Mention All-American.
Lee, who earned the second-team honor for the second straight year, is ranked 19th among the nation’s women’s college golfers according to Golfstat, and 22nd by Golfweek. She posted 11 top-20 finishes in 11 tournaments as a junior.
]]>The Wake Forest freshman, competing strictly as an individual at the Women’s NCAA Division I Finals in Eugene, Ore., rallied late in her round to open with a 3-under-par 69, which left her in an eight-way tie for third place with three rounds remaining.
The two-time CWGA Player of the Year played her final seven holes in 4 under par — and made five birdies overall — to finish day 1 just one stroke out of the lead, held jointly by August Kim of Purdue and Haley Moore of Arizona.
Kupcho has certainly been on a roll of late. In addition to qualifying — and earning Sectional medalist honors — for the U.S. Women’s Open Monday at Heritage at Westmoor, her last three college finishes have been second, second and sixth, with one of the runner-ups coming at the ACC Championships.
The Coloradan is 43rd in both the Women’s World Amateur Golf Rankings, and in Golfweek’s national women’s college rankings.
Kupcho will play at least three rounds, but if she finishes 54 holes among the top nine individuals not on one of the top 15 teams that make the cut, she’ll play a fourth and final round on Monday. That’s when the individual champion will be determined.
For all the scores from the Women’s DI Finals, CLICK HERE.
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