Amateur championship at Turnberry down to last four

Saxton, Vickery, Sullivan and

Fleetwood are semi-finalists

FROM THE R&A CHAMPIONSHIP WEBSITE
The semi-finalists in The Amateur Championship are Reinier Saxton, Joe Vickery, Andrew Sullivan and Tommy Fleetwood.
This morning's quarter final matches were closely-contested affairs. The first match of the day was nip and tuck for the first half of the match, with Portuguese 17-year-old Pedro Figueiredo holing a beautiful 20ft birdie putt on the ninth to go one-up at the turn. On the 10th, however, the momentum swung heavily in favour of Ductch golfer Reinier Saxton.
The 20-year-old played a beautiful approach for a birdie on the 10th, won the par-3 11th after Figueiredo found a buried lie in the front bunker, and played yet another superb iron to birdie the 12th and go two-up.
Saxton kept his momentum going and wound up a 3 and 2 winner after getting up and down from 80 yards on the 16th.
The all-Welsh encounter in the second match turned into an intense battle between Pennard's James Frazer and Newport's Joe Vickery. Throughout the game hole after hole was halved, with neither man ever being more than one up.
Predictably going to sudden death, the match eventually finished on the 22nd hole with Frazer finding trouble and Vickery, with two putts for the match, holing out from 20ft for a birdie.
In the third match out, Italian Andrea Pavan was ahead of English opponent Andrew Sullivan for most of the front nine, but the man from Nuneaton turned things round by winning the seventh and ninth to get back to all square. He then won the 11th and 12th holes to put himself ahead before finishing the match off 2 and 1 with a birdie on the par-5 17th.
Tommy Fleetwood, the 17-year-old who plays at Formby Hall in Lancashire, had arguably the toughest task of the morning in the final match out. He was up against Jorge Campillo, the world number five, and when the Spaniard went ahead at the second the task seemed even tougher. But Fleetwood won three holes in a row from the sixth to put himself two up and never lost the lead after that, eventually winning one up on the last. Fleetwood, who lives just minutes from Royal Birkdale, has entered qualifying for The Open. "But hopefully I won't have to qualify," he joked, referring to the exemption for the Championship that goes to this week's winner. "Just two more matches to go!"