STEWART, SENIOR, LEWIS QUALIFY FOR US AMATEUR MATCHPLAY

Three of the four GB and I Walker Cup team players have figured among the 64 qualifiers for the match-play stages of the US amateur championship at Erin Hills, Wisconsin. Bad weather delayed the finish of the qualifying rounds into a third day. MIchael Stewart (Troon Welbeck) qualified around joint 48th place on one-under-par 141 - 20 players on 142 played off for the last four places in the match-play draw - with scores of 71 over the championship course and 70 over the shorter Blue Mound lay-off. Tom Lewis (Welwyn Garden City)) added a 68 on the shorter course to a 71 at Erin Hills and a total of 140 made him joint 19th qualifier. Jack Senior (Heysham) qualified in joint 29th position with scores of 67 and 73 for 140. But Stiggy Hodgson (Sunningdale), a fourth member of the G B and I team for the Royal Aberdeen match next month, missed out by a mile with a pair of 73s for 146. Other Englishman who did not qualify were Danny Keddie (Belton Park) on 146 (74-72) and Luke Joy 147 (78-69). American Gregor Main was the leading qualifier on 10-under-par 131, made up of scores of 67 and 65.

All but one of the seven current USA Walker Cup players advanced to match play including: Chris Williams, 20, of Moscow, Idaho, at 139, Harris English, 22, of Thomasville, Georgia, and Patrick Cantlay, 19, of Los Alamitos, California at 140.
The other USA Walker Cup player, Nathan Smith, 33, of Pittsburgh was in a 20-for-4 play-off at even-par 142.




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