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LLOYD SALTMAN GOES OUT TO BIRDIE
BLITZ BY KEVIN TWAY
Lloyd Saltman was blasted out of the United States amateur golf championship by a barrage of birdies but fellow Walker Cup Scot Richie Ramsay took an early lead in his first-round tie at Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska in Minnesota today.
American Kevin Tway was three under par in beating Saltman, who qualified with a total of 143 to his opponent’s 146, by 4 and 3.
Tway, 18, won the US junior amateur championship last year. He is a son of the 1986 US PGA champion, Bob Tway.
After the first four holes were halved in par, Kevin Tway turned on the heat with birdies at the fifth and sixth to go two up on the Craigielaw man.
Saltman scored his only success at the 11th – and he had to birdie it to do so.
But a bogey by the Scot at the 13th allowed Tway to go two up again with a par.
Tway then birdied the 14th and parred the 15th to win by 4 and 3.
“I played pretty well out there but I knew I would have to. Lloyd’s a great player,” said the American.
Royal Aberdeen’s Richie Ramsay won the first hole with a par against Canadian Mark Leon and then halved the next two.
Oliver Fisher (West Essex), the youngest player in Walker Cup history, beat Drew Weaver (US) by 3 and 2 with one-under-par figures.
Fisher birdied the first, seventh, 14th and 15th. His opponent birdied the fourth and 10th.
BLITZ BY KEVIN TWAY
Lloyd Saltman was blasted out of the United States amateur golf championship by a barrage of birdies but fellow Walker Cup Scot Richie Ramsay took an early lead in his first-round tie at Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska in Minnesota today.
American Kevin Tway was three under par in beating Saltman, who qualified with a total of 143 to his opponent’s 146, by 4 and 3.
Tway, 18, won the US junior amateur championship last year. He is a son of the 1986 US PGA champion, Bob Tway.
After the first four holes were halved in par, Kevin Tway turned on the heat with birdies at the fifth and sixth to go two up on the Craigielaw man.
Saltman scored his only success at the 11th – and he had to birdie it to do so.
But a bogey by the Scot at the 13th allowed Tway to go two up again with a par.
Tway then birdied the 14th and parred the 15th to win by 4 and 3.
“I played pretty well out there but I knew I would have to. Lloyd’s a great player,” said the American.
Royal Aberdeen’s Richie Ramsay won the first hole with a par against Canadian Mark Leon and then halved the next two.
Oliver Fisher (West Essex), the youngest player in Walker Cup history, beat Drew Weaver (US) by 3 and 2 with one-under-par figures.
Fisher birdied the first, seventh, 14th and 15th. His opponent birdied the fourth and 10th.
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