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Oak Valley
Victory Makes Paul Simson the Owner of the
Most CGA Championships Ever |
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ADVANCE, NC - May 17, 2012 - Final round results of the 27th
North Carolina Senior Amateur Championship of the Carolinas Golf Association
hosted by Oak Valley Golf Club in Advance, NC on Thursday, May 17, 2012 (6596
yards, par 36-36—72, 71.6/132).
Paul
Simson of Raleigh, NC has won many titles in his storied golf career but he
earned a new one today, “Most All-Time CGA Championships”.
Simson’s birdie on the second playoff hole defeated Jim Grainger of Charlotte,
NC to seal his 25th CGA championship title which surpasses Dale
Morey’s long-standing record of 24. Simson now holds six North Carolina Senior
Amateur Championship crowns (2006, ‘07, ‘09, ‘10, ‘11, ‘12).
“This
one is special,” a choked-up Simson said. “Dale Morey has 24 of these titles but
now I have 25. I wanted to win this one because if I didn’t the pressure (to win
number 25) would have start building.”
Simson
and Grainger pulled away from the 123-player field by each posting a seven-under
par 136 that was four |
 strokes ahead of the rest of the field.
Grainger has proven to be a worthy competitor to Simson at most CGA senior events
since he turned 55-years-old last year. “What can I say…he is the best senior
amateur golfer in the world,” Grainger said of Simson following the playoff
loss.
Due
to the five-plus inches of rain that fell in the Advance, NC area from Sunday
night through Tuesday, the championship format was shortened to 36 holes.
Oak
Valley Golf Course played as par 71 for round one but was reverted back to the
traditional par 72 for the final round. The 360-yard par four 10th
hole was converted to a par 3 for round one due to unplayable wet fairway
conditions.
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top 30 players and ties are exempt for the 2013 North Carolina Senior Amateur
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Charleston's
Katie Higgins Wins 86th Women's Carolinas
Amateur Championship
Charlotte's Patty
Moore Captures her 9th WCGA Senior Trophy |
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HANAHAN,
SC --- May 167, 2012 - Final results of the
86th Women's Carolinas Amateur Championship
hosted by Yeamans Hall Club on Thursday, May 17,
2012. Par 36-36--72 5,922 yards.
After a
four hour and ten minute suspension of play due
to lightening in the area Katie Rose Higgins of
Charleston, SC captured the 86th Women's
Carolinas Amateur Championship by one stroke
over 17-year-local Katelyn Dambaugh of Goose
Creek, SC. Most players had only three to four
holes to finish before play was suspended due to
dangerous weather in the area. All flights with
the exception of the championship flight were
shortened to 36 holes. |
 "Even
though we had a long delay, I was glad to
finish," Higgins said. "It's always nice to win
a championship without an asterisk next to the
score.
I was able
to stay focused on my own game all throughout
the day and I kept sticking to my plan."
Dambaugh's tough and competitive nature would
not give up though. She was always lurking
around and fighting her way back to try and take
the lead away from Higgins. Dambaugh headed
into the 18th hole two behind Katie Rose
Higgins. Dambaugh would reach the
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the par 5
18th in two for a chance at eagle but missed.
Higgins made her two putt for par to win by one
stroke. "This is a special championship
with a long
history and I'm glad to have my name on the
trophy along with so many other wonderful
champions."
In the
Carolinas Tee division Carole Jones of
Hillsborough, NC won the overall Super Senior
trophy and had the overall low score of the
division. This division plays a shorter course
and was shortened to 36 holes due to dangerous
weather in the area.
In the
senior division, Patty Moore of Charlotte, NC
won her 9th WCGA Senior trophy over Angela
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Malnati Takes 36-Hole Lead at Willow Creek
Hometown Favorite Weaver Sits Alone in Second |
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High Point, NC –
On his first hole of the second
round of the eGolf Tour’s Willow Creek Open,
Peter Malnati of Dandridge, TN laced a perfect
3-wood tee shot that bounded through the
dogleg-right fairway and nestled into one of the
many tree roots that line the classic Willard
Byrd-designed course. With his ball sitting in a
virtual hole of sunken tree root, Malnati did
his best to “top the ball 12 yards from where it
laid,” and from there hit a perfect 8-iron to 1
foot to save par. That early drama set up a
second-round 67 for the former Missouri
standout, who will now take a one-shot lead into
Friday’s final round of the 54-hole event.
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Willow Creek Open is the ninth of |
24 scheduled events on the
2012 eGolf Tour schedule, and is being contested
this week at Willow Creek Country Club in High
Point, NC. The event is the third of 10
scheduled 54-hole events on the tour’s 2012
schedule.
Malnati began his second round in
a tie for second place and trailing overnight
leader Matt Hill after a first-round 65 on
Wednesday. His opening hole impression of the
great Seve Ballesteros gave way to birdies on
Nos. 4, 6 and 8 to give Malnati a 3-under 33 on
his outward nine, which in turn pushed him to
10-under for the week.
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Vaita Guillaume
tied for fourth after first round of NCAA'S East
Regional |
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GREENSBORO, N.C. – May 17, 2012 - Vaita
Guillaume of Campbell University shot a
two-under-par 70 and is tied for fourth place
following Thursday’s opening round of the NCAA
East Regional men’s golf championship at the
Grandover Resort East Course.
A senior from Papeete, Tahiti, Guillaume made
five birdies on the day, including a four on the
par-five 18th hole to pull within three strokes
of individual leader Matt Schovee of SMU. The
54-hole event continues through Saturday’s final
round at the par-72, 7271-yard Grandover East
layout.
Playing in his third career NCAA regional
tournament, Guillaume made |
three bogeys, including one on the par-
five second hold. However, he had birdies on
the par-4 fourth and ninth holes to make the
turn at one-under 35. The Big South Conference
player of the year made bogey on the par-4 11th,
but then birdied the par-three 12th and par-four
14th before scoring four on the par-three 16th.
Guillaume has shot 70 or better in 16 of his 30
rounds this year, including a collegiate
career-low 64 when he won last month’s Wofford
Coca Cola Invitational, his fourth individual
title of the season.
Twelve players in the 75-man field, that
includes 14 teams and five individuals, finished
Thursday’s round below par. |
Schovee holds a two-stroke lead over his SMU
teammate Harry Higgs and John Young Kim of
Tulsa. Guillaume stands in a 5-way tie at
two-under with M.J. Daffue of Lamar and Liberty
teammates Robert Karlsson and Chase Marinell.
The top five teams and low individual not on
those teams at each of six regionals will
advance to the NCAA Championship, May 29-June 3
at The Riviera Country Club in Pacific
Palisades, Calif.
Liberty sits atop the team leader board at
five-under 283, five strokes better than SMU
(288). Tulsa (293) and UNLV (293) are tied for
third, followed by Texas Tech (294),
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HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS,
Fla. - May 17, 2012 - The Methodist men's
golf team shaved eight strokes on their team
score Thursday to create distance from the field
while they held onto second place. Oglethorpe
maintains a stronghold on the lead at 867
(285-292-290) while the Monarchs are in second
at 883 (291-300-292). Transylvania is nine
strokes back in third at 892 (308-288-296).
Oglethorpe's Anthony Maccaglia had another
sparkling round finishing four |
under for the day with a 68. He
has a seven stroke lead over teammate Hayden
Jones with a three-day total of 207 (68-71-68).
Methodist's
Mike Duncan made a run up the
standings finishing three under on Thursday with
seven birdies. The senior is currently tied for
sixth at 219 (75-75-69).
Andrew Bateman shot a 74 to jump five
spots into a tie for 12th at 221 (70-77-74).
Robby Bruns had a tough front nine,
but came back and finished three under on the
back nine to |
tie for 31st with a 225
(76-72-77).
Dakun Chang made a leap up the
standings on Thursday with an even par 72 to tie
Bruns and five other competitors at 225
(77-76-72).
Mike Wesko managed four birdies on the
day, but is currently tied for 52nd at 230
(70-77-83).
The tournament concludes on Friday as the field
plays the final round on the El Campeon course.
Wesko will start things off for the Monarchs as
they tee off beginning at 9:05 a.m. Fans can
follow along with live scoring HERE. |
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NC State Men’s
Golf Tied for 7th at NCAA Ann Arbor Regional |
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – May 17,
2012 - The NC State men’s golf team is tied
for seventh after Thursday’s opening round of
the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional at U-M Golf Course.
The Wolfpack fired a team score of 6-over 290.
Sophomore All-American Albin Choi fired a
2-under 69 and is tied for fifth, just two shots
off the lead. He had a team-leading five
birdies, including four in the first seven holes
that got him to -4 for the day. Two late bogeys
at Nos. 7 and 8 saw him fall off the pace a bit,
but he did birdie No. 9 to finish strong.
Senior Mark McMillen bogeyed the
opening three holes (Nos. 10-12), but rallied
with birdies at 13, 18 and one on the front-nine
at No. 5 to finish where he began at even-par
and is tied for 15th. His 12 pars on the day
ranked
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among the most in the field on
Thursday. Junior
Mitchell Sutton opened with seven-consecutive
pars, before finishing 17 and 18 going
bogey-double-bogey to make the turn at +3. He
answered back with birdies at 2, 7 and 9 to
offset bogeys at 4 and 8 to finish at 2-over 73
and is tied for 31st.
Senior Chad Day is tied for 56th after shooting
a 6-over 77 with a birdie at the par-4 sixth
hole.
Seniors Graham Baillargeon finished at 8-over 79
and is tied for 65th. He was even through his
first eight holes, but doubled 18, 4 and 6 and
wound up eight-above-par over his final 10
holes.
Eighth-seed TCU owns an eight-stroke lead after
shooting a 6-under 278. Third-seed Kent State is
second at 3-over 286, |
while No. 7-seed Kennesaw
State and fourth-seed Virginia are tied for
third at 3-over 287. Three players sit atop the
individual leader board at 4-under 67 – Julien
Brun (TCU), Joakim Mikkelsen (Baylor) and
Anthony Paolucci (Southern Cal).
The low five teams at the regional and the low
individual not on a qualifying team will advance
to the NCAA Championship, to be held May 29-June
3 at The Riviera Country Club in Pacific
Palisades, Calif.
NC State begins Friday’s second round at 8 a.m.,
off hole No. 10. The Wolfpack will play with
Oklahoma State and Purdue.
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UNCW Tied
Forth 5th At Athens Regional |
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ATHENS, Georgia – May
17, 2012 - Led by
Payne McLeod and Ryan Nagy, both at
one-under, UNCW finished the opening
round of the Athens Regional of the NCAA
Men’s Golf Championships tied with
Houston for fifth-place at
two-under-par.
Fourth-ranked Alabama leads the |
regional field after
carding a 15-under-par in the opening
round. Tenth-ranked North Florida is
second, just two strokes behind the
Crimson Tide.
UNF’s Kevin Aylwin holds the medalist
lead with a six-under-par 65 in the
opening round.
McLeod and Nagy are tied for 17th |
overall
while
Thomas
Bass
and
Patrick
Sawrey
are
tied
for
26th,
both
finished
with
a
one-under-par
71.
Rounding
out
the
Seahawks
lineup
was
Stefan
Brewer
with
an
opening
round
80.
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Braves
Finish 10th At NCAA Championships, Break
PBC Record |
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SIMPSONVILLE, Ky. –
Michael Mullman tallied six
birdies en route to a 1-under-par 71 and
Jordan Walor carded a
1-over-par 73, but fourth-ranked UNCP
was unable to find its way back among
the top eight teams and finished their
stay at the NCAA Championships with a
10th place finish on Thursday. Walor
(-2) exited the three-round tournament
at 2-under-par and settled for a 14th
place finish despite turning in
below-par scores in each of the first
two rounds of the event. Mullman (+5)
turned in his best score of the
tournament en route to finishing in a
tie for 39th place, while
Carson Lanier (+6)
concluded the event in a tie for 46th
after carding a 3-over-par 75 on
Thursday. Seniors
Jonathan McCurry (+11) and
Scott Lambert shot 76 and
77, respectively, in the final round of
stoke play and shared 71st place on the
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individual leaderboard. UNCP (+15)
booked its second-best round of the week
and came off the course in a tie for
12th, but jumped up two spots as the
rest of the field battled extremely
windy conditions at the University of
Louisville's Cardinal Club as well. The
short trek up the leaderboard was not
enough, though, as the Black & Gold
finished six strokes off of Central
Missouri who grabbed the eighth and
final spot heading into Friday's match
play quarterfinal round.
Seventh-ranked Chico State (-13) will
head into match play as the top seed and
will take on eighth-seeded Central
Missouri (+9) in Friday's match play
quarterfinals. Other matchups on Friday
will include top-ranked Nova
Southeastern (-9) against 14th-ranked
USC Aiken (+6), 13th-ranked Central
Oklahoma (-8) against second-ranked
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Barry (+2) and third-ranked CSU-Stanislaus
(-6) against 18th-ranked Georgia College
(-2). The Braves, who finished third
or better in 10 of the 12 events they
competed in this season, also set a new
Peach Belt Conference single season
record by concluding their 2011-12
campaign with a 288.84 stroke average.
That number breaks a two-year old league
record set by Georgia College who
registered a 289.77 stroke average
during the 2009-10 campaign.
Walor, who ranks second in PBC
history with eight career victories,
concluded his senior campaign with a
school record 71.39 stroke average – the
third-best average in league annals, and
the lowest since Clayton State's Will
Wilcox posted a PBC record 71.06 stroke
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Duke in 11th at NCAA East Regional
Sumrall
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GREENSBORO,
N.C. –
The Duke men’s golf team,
ranked 18th in the
latest Golf World / Nike Golf
Coaches’ Poll, is 11th
after one round of play after
shooting a 13-over 301 in the
opening round of the NCAA
East Regional at the
Grandover Resort East Course
(par 72, 7,271 yards). Junior
Adam Sumrall and
Brinson Paolini paced the
Blue Devils with one-over 73s
on Thursday.
“You don’t
want to dig yourself a hole
to get out of but these guys
know how to climb,” said head
coach Jamie Green.
“They have done it before,
they did it at regionals at
Notre Dame in 2010, and what
I told them after the round
was how much I believe in
them and how much I know they
believe in themselves.
Everybody has something
unique that if they could
step back and do over again
they would but what’s past is
past. These guys have already
regrouped and gotten
themselves ready for
tomorrow. There is no time
for looking back, so we are
going to use the time we have
to do what has to be done to
move forward.”
Liberty posted
the only under-par team round
on the day and holds the
first round lead with a
five-under 283. SMU is five
shots back at even-par with
Tulsa (+5, 293), UNLV (+5,
293) and Texas Tech (+6, 294)
rounding out the top five.
Duke enters tomorrow’s second
round seven shots out of
fifth place. The top five
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of play advance to
the NCAA Championship at Riviera Country Club in
Pacific Palisades, Calif.
SMU’s Matt Schovee
holds the individual lead after firing a five-under
67. He holds a two-shot lead over teammate Harry Higgs
and John Young Kim of Tulsa. Sumrall and Paolini are
tied for 15th at one-over after 18 holes of
play.
With Duke starting
the day on the back nine, Sumrall opened up with
back-to-back pars before going through a
birdie-bogey-birdie-bogey stretch. He finished off the
back nine with three more pars to make the turn at
even-par. The South Bend, Ind., native suffered a
bogey on No. 1 but quickly recovered with a birdie on
the par 5 second hole. Sumrall parred the next six
holes, narrowly missing birdie putts on No. 7 and No.
8, before closing with a bogey on the par 4 ninth
hole.
Paolini carded a birdie on No. 10 to
start the tournament but dropped back to even-par with
a bogey on No. 11. The Virginia Beach, Va., native
birdied the par 3 12th hole before again
suffering a bogey on the very next hole. He closed off
the back nine with five straight pars to make the turn
at even-par. Paolini added a birdie on the par 5
second hole to move back to one-under but carded three
bogeys over the next four holes to slip to +2. He
bounced back to finish par-birdie-par for a one-over
73. |
Senior Spencer
Anderson also played the back nine at even-par
with five pars, two birdies (No. 12 & No. 18) and two
bogeys on holes No. 10-18. Anderson nearly carded an
ace on the par 3 12th hole as he tee shot
settled less than a foot from the cup. After the turn
he tacked on six more pars but also suffered two
bogeys and a double-bogey en route to a four-over 76.
He enters tomorrow’s second round tied for 39th.
Junior Julian
Suri suffered his worst round of the season
while nursing a wrist injury throughout the opening
round. The St. Augustine, Fla., native finished
with a seven-over 79 and was penalized by three tee
balls that went out of play and resulted in a pair
of double-bogeys and a triple-bogey. Suri closed the
day with 13 pars despite struggling off the tee box
throughout the round.
Austin Cody,
a sophomore from North Charleston, S.C., also posted
a seven-over 79 in the opening round. He and Suri
are tied for 60th overall. Cody had 11
pars and seven bogeys on the day and was plagued by
a cold putter on Thursday.
Duke opens
second round play on Friday at 8:50 a.m. off No. 10
at the Grandover Resort East Course. The Blue Devils
will be paired with Florida and Charlotte. Live
scoring for the event is available at
www.golfstat.com.
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Men’s Golf Opens NCAA
Regional With Up And Down Round Of 284
Demon Deacons are in eighth place after the opening
round
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ATHENS, Ga. – The Wake Forest
men’s golf team opened the NCAA Regional at the University of Georgia Golf
Club on Thursday with a round of even-par 284 and sits in eighth place after
round one.
The Deacons had a bit of an up and down day. They got off to a
slow start and were 4-over par at one point. But eight birdies in a six-hole
span lifted the Deacs to 4-under par and into fourth place early in the back
nine. However, a tough finish left Wake with a round of even-par 284.
The Deacs are in eighth place at even-par and trail Houston and
UNC Wilmington by just two shots for fifth place. The top-5 teams and top
individual not on one of those five teams at the end of the 54-hole event will
advance to the NCAA Championship.
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Juniors Evan Beck and Charlie
Harrison each carded rounds of 1-under 70 on
Thursday. Harrison made four birdies in a six-hole
stretch midway through his round and was as low as
3-under par. Beck made two birdies and two bogeys
through the first 14 holes and then finished his
round with a solid birdie at No. 18. For Harrison,
it was his first under-par round since the final
round of the Mobile Bay Intercollegiate on Feb. 21.
For Beck, it was just his second under-par round of
the spring.
Senior Lee Bedford had an up and down
day as well. He made a total of four birdies on the
day but finished with a double-bogey six on No. 18
to post an even-par round of 71. Bedford is
currently in a tie for XX with 36 holes to go.
Sophomore Thomas Birdsey shook off a
double-bogey on his second hole of the
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day and would play even-par
golf the rest of the round to post a 2-over 73.
Freshman Cyrus Stewart, playing in his first
regional, got off to a tough start and carded an
11-over 82.
Top-seeded Alabama got four under-par
rounds and made just one bogey on the final nine
holes as a team to grab the opening round lead at
15-under par. Behind the top-two individuals, North
Florida is in second place at 13-under. UNF’s Kevin
Aylwin shot a 6-under 65 while teammate MJ Maguire
posted a 5-under 66. East Carolina is 8-under par
and in third place while host Georgia is 4-under and
in fourth place.
The Demon Deacons will start the
second round Friday morning at 8 a.m. off the 10th
tee. Golfstat.com will have live scoring of the
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Charlotte 49ers Grind Out NCAA
Regional First Round
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After struggling at the start, the Charlotte 49ers found
themselves grinding out a first round performance at the NCAA Greensboro
Regional to stay within striking distance for Friday's second round.
Charlotte finished round one at 15-over par, 20 strokes out of
first place and nine strokes out of the top five that will advance past round
three into the 30-team NCAA Championships.
But it could have been very different.
"We got off to a slow start but we hung in there and battled
back," said 49ers first-year head coach Ryan Cabbage."We were 13-over after six
holes and did some good things in the |
middle part of the round, the late
part of the round. As I told the guys, 'we didn't
play our best today but we didn't play ourselves out
of it." Seniors Olafur
Loftsson, Rafael Guerrero and Tyler Mitchell all
shot even par on the second nine as Charlotte
battled to remain in contention. The 49ers are just
five strokes back of ninth-place Indiana and will be
paired with 10th-place Florida (+11) and 11th-place
Duke (+13) in round two.
Guerrero, for instance was six-over
par after the first four holes, but played the final
14 in one-under par to finish at +5, 77. Mitchell
was five-over through the first five holes and
played even-par over the final 13 to also finish at
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77. "We
started making a few birdies around the turn,"
Cabbage added. "We did some better things on our
last nine holes and kind of settled in a little
bit and that is encouraging because it's something
we can build on for round two."
Freshman Raoul Menard led the
49ers with a two-over par round of 74 while Loftsson
shot three-over par 75 to pace the 49ers.
Liberty has the first round lead
at five-under par, five strokes ahead of
second-place SMU (E, 288). Tulsa (+5), UNLV (+5)
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