The Coloradans improved by one stroke over their first-round total at the Country Club of Birmingham (Ala.), but missed the 36-hole team cut by three shots. For the first time this year, a 36-hole cut was instituted that reduced the field to the top 21 teams plus ties. Colorado ended up sharing 27th place out of the 52-team field.

After a 7-over-par 149 on Thursday, the three-player Colorado team posted a 15-over-par 299 total. That left the Coloradans 18 strokes behind 36-hole leader Connecticut. Michigan went on to win the title on Friday with a 4-under-par 422 total.

Jon Lindstrom of Broomfield, who won his third CGA Mid-Amateur title on Sunday, shot a 3-over-par 74 on Thursday, while four-time CGA Mid-Am champ Keith Humerickhouse of Eagle and 2015 CGA Match Play winner Nick Nosewicz of Aurora matched 75s in round 2. On each day, the top two scores from each state’s three representatives counted toward its team total.

Lindstrom (pictured) became the top Colorado individual finisher at the last four State Teams, this time carding a 7-over-par 149 total, which left him in 49th place individually through two rounds. Humerickhouse (150) was 57th. Nosewicz was disqualified — but just for round 1 — after self-reporting signing for an incorrect score on Wednesday. His score counted on Thursday.

Lindstrom made one birdie — on his opening hole — and two bogeys and a double bogey on Thursday. Humerickhouse carded two birdies and six bogeys, and Nosewicz five bogeys and a closing-hole birdie.

Each of the 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, fielded teams consisting of three in-state residents, none of which could be an active college golfer.

27. Colorado 150
Jon Lindstrom of Broomfield 75-74–149
Keith Humerickhouse of Eagle 75-75–150
Nick Nosewicz of Aurora DQ-75

For complete scoring from the USGA Men’s State Team, CLICK HERE.

The Coloradans improved by one stroke over their first-round total at the Country Club of Birmingham, but missed the 36-hole team cut by three shots. For the first time this year, a 36-hole cut was instituted that reduced the field to the top 21 teams plus ties. Colorado ended up sharing 27th place out of the 52-team field.

After a 7-over-par 149 on Thursday, the three-player Colorado team posted a 15-over-par 299 total. That left the Coloradans 18 strokes behind leader Connecticut.

Jon Lindstrom of Broomfield, who won his third CGA Mid-Amateur title on Sunday, shot a 3-over-par 74 on Thursday, while four-time CGA Mid-Am champ Keith Humerickhouse of Eagle and 2015 CGA Match Play winner Nick Nosewicz of Aurora matched 75s in round 2. On each day, the top two scores from each state’s three representatives count toward its team total.

Lindstrom (pictured) became the top Colorado individual finisher at the last four State Teams, this time carding a 7-over-par 149 total, which left him in 49th place individually. Humerickhouse (150) was 57th. Nosewicz was disqualified — but just for round 1 — after self-reporting signing for an incorrect score on Wednesday. His score counted on Thursday.

Lindstrom made one birdie — on his opening hole — and two bogeys and a double bogey on Thursday. Humerickhouse carded two birdies and six bogeys, and Nosewicz five bogeys and a closing-hole birdie.

Each of the 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, fielded teams consisting of three in-state residents, none of which can be an active college golfer.

27. Colorado 150
49. Jon Lindstrom of Broomfield 75-74–149
57. Keith Humerickhouse of Eagle 75-75–150
Nick Nosewicz of Aurora DQ-75

For complete scoring from the USGA Men’s State Team, CLICK HERE.
 

At 8-over-par 150, the Coloradans are tied for 26th place in the 52-team field for the biennial event. Both Jon Lindstrom of Broomfield, winner on Sunday of his third CGA Mid-Amateur title, and four-time Mid-Am champion Keith Humerickhouse of Eagle posted 4-over-par 75s on Wednesday, leaving them tied for 59th place individually.

The third member of the Colorado squad, 2015 CGA Match Play champion Nick Nosewicz of Aurora, was disqualified for round 1 for signing for a score lower than he took. The player keeping Nosewicz’s scorecard marked him down for a bogey on a hole in which he made a double bogey. Nosewicz didn’t catch the error in the scoring area, but noticed it later and reported the problem to USGA officials, resulting in the DQ.

Though Nosewicz’s actual score of 74 didn’t count toward Colorado’s Wednesday total, his score can be used for both or either of the final two rounds of the 54-hole event. On each day, the top two scores from each state’s three representatives count toward its team total.

As it was, counting two 75s left Colorado 10 strokes behind team co-leaders Missouri, Connecticut, Ohio and Texas.

Humerickhouse, who went to the round of 16 at the 2013 U.S. Mid-Am at the Country Club of Birmingham, made a birdie, three bogeys and a double bogey in his first round ever at the USGA Men’s State team.

Lindstrom, representing Colorado in the event for the fifth consecutive time and for the sixth time overall, carded two birdies and six bogeys for the day.

The teams representing Colorado and the CGA have finished in the top half of the field in four of the last five USGA Men’s State Team Championships, including 22nd the last time the Men’s State Team was conducted, in 2014.

Each of the 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, field teams consisting of three in-state residents, none of which can be an active college golfer.

26. Colorado 150
59. Keith Humerickhouse of Eagle 75
59. Jon Lindstrom of Broomfild 75
Nick Nosewicz of Aurora DQ

For complete scoring from the USGA Men’s State Team, CLICK HERE.

(The Colorado contingent is pictured, from left: non-playing captain Alex Crall from the CGA, Humerickhouse, Nosewicz and Lindstrom, along with a junior golfer from the Country Club of Birmingham.)

Each of the 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, field teams consisting of three in-state residents, none of which can be an active college golfer. Each round of the 54-hole event, the top two scores from each state’s representatives count toward its team total.

The three players that will comprise the Colorado team this year — Jon Lindstrom of Broomfield, Nick Nosewicz of Aurora and Keith Humerickhouse of Eagle — have significatly varying experience at the event.

Lindstrom, the 2008 and ’15 CGA Mid-Amateur champion, will be representing the state in the event for the fifth consecutive time the State Team has been conducted, and for the sixth time overall. In fact, Lindstrom has been the top Colorado individual finisher at the last three State Teams.

Nosewicz, the 2015 CGA Match Play winner, was part of the 2014 Colorado squad at the State Team, along with Lindstrom and Steve Irwin.

Humerickhouse, winner of a record-tying four straight CGA Mid-Amateurs starting in 2010, will be a first-timer at the USGA Men’s State Team, but is no stranger to other USGA championships, having advanced as far as the round of 16 at the U.S. Mid-Amateur.

The Colorado team was selected by vote of the Tournament Committee, with candidates coming from the top performers on the 2015 and ’16 Player of the Year points lists. Chris Thayer of Denver was among the Coloradans invited, but couldn’t participate this year.

The Colorado team finished 22nd in 2014 — the last year the Men’s State Team was held — and 20th in 2012. Colorado’s best showing ever in the event was seventh place in 1997, the second year the championship was conducted.

The Men’s State Team will be the final USGA championship of 2016.