TITLE-HOLDER UIHLEIN WINS, TOP SEED TWO DOWN AFTER NINE

FROM THE USGA WEBSITE
By PETER KOWALSKI
Erin, Wisconsin – Reigning champion Peter Uihlein, 21, of Orlando, began his title defense with a 3-and-1 win Wednesday over Eugene Wong, 20, of Canada in the first round of match play at the 2011 U.S. Amateur Championship at Erin Hills.
Because of weather delays which began Tuesday, only six of the scheduled first-round matches were completed before the round was suspended due to darkness at 7:30 p.m. (local time)
Uihlein, who will represent the USA for the second time at the Walker Cup Match at Royal Aberdeen next month, won the third and fourth holes, and went on to extend his lead to 4 up through 14 holes.
“The wind was blowing, the golf course was hard, the pins were brutal and I knew pars were going to be good,” said Uihlein, who won the 2011 Hogan Award as the best player in college golf. “I had an early awful bogey on two but I was pretty solid the rest of the way. He is a good player so it was a tough draw.”
Uihlein meets Dylan Frittelli, 21, of South Africa, who plays at the University of Texas, in the second round.
“It’s nice to get the first victory out of the way but it’s still not easy,” said Uihlein, who also played on the 2009 USA Walker Cup Team. “The more you go, the harder it gets. I’m going to have to play well, Dylan is a great player. I play with him a lot since he’s in the Big 12.”
Medalist Gregor Main, 22, of Danville, California, who tied for the lowest 36-hole stroke-play qualifying score in U.S. Amateur Championship history at 10-under-par 132, was two down through nine holes in his match with Bobby Leopold, 26, of Cranston, Rhode Island 
Main, a three-time All-American at UCLA, completed a bogey-free 5-under-par 67 at par-72, 7,760-yard Erin Hills on Wednesday to earn medalist honors by two strokes.
Main tied the previous low 36-hole score of 132 (12 under par) shot by Hank Kim in 1994 at TPC Sawgrass (Stadium and Valley Courses) in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
The first round of match play began at 3 p.m. CDT because of a fog delay of two hours and 25 minutes that delayed the morning re-start of the second round of stroke play.
The last five matches of the first round will begin Thursday morning and the first-round matches that are in progress will resume at 7:15 a.m.
The 2011 U.S. Amateur Championship consists of 36 holes of stroke play followed by six rounds of match play, with the championship scheduled to conclude with a 36-hole final on Sunday.

DRAW AND RESULTS OF MATCHES COMPLETED

Erin, Wis. -- Results of Wednesday’s first round of match play at the 2011 U.S. Amateur Championship, played at 7,760-yard, par-72 Erin Hills (only six matches were completed; visit www.usga.org for status of the other matches)

Upper Bracket
Gregor Main, Danville, Calif. (132) vs. Bobby Leopold, Cranston, R.I. (142) (Leopold two up after nine holes when play suspended Wednesday night)
Harris English, Thomasville, Ga. (140) d. Andrew Yun, Chandler, Ariz. (140), 3 and 1
Bryson Dechambeau, Clovis, Calif. (141) d. Will McCurdy, Fort Payne, Ala. (138), 3 and 2
Jordan Russell, College Station, Texas (140) d. Zahkai Brown, Arvada, Colo. (138), 1 hole
Peter Uihlein, Orlando, Fla. (137) d. Eugene Wong, Canada (141), 3 and 1
Dylan Frittelli, South Africa (140) d. Jim Markovitz, Bridgeville, Pa. (139), 5 and 4
Scott Langley, St. Louis, Mo. (137) d. Donald Constable, Deephaven, Minn. (141), 3 and 2
Daniel Nisbet, Australia (139) vs. Mitch Sutton, Canada (140)
Blayne Barber, Lake City, Fla. (135) vs. Stephan Jaeger, Germany (142)
John Peterson, Fort Worth, Texas (139) vs. Todd Baek, Korea (140)
Patrick Christovich, New Orleans, La. (138) vs. Max Buckley, Rye, N.Y. (141)
Chris Williams, Moscow, Idaho (139) vs. David Lee, Houston, Texas (140)
Russell Henley, Macon, Ga. (135) vs. Kevin Dougherty, Murrieta, Calif. (141)
Max Scodro, Chicago, Ill. (139) vs. Patrick Cantlay, Los Alamitos, Calif. (140)
Cory Whitsett, Houston, Texas (137) vs. David Kim, Redondo Beach, Calif. (141)
Tom Lewis, England (139) vs. Kevin Penner, Sammamish, Wash. (140) (Lewis all square after 10 holes when play suspended Wednesday night).

Lower Bracket
Blake Biddle, St. Charles, Ill. (134) vs. Marty Jeppesen II, Ypsilanti, Mich. (142)
Mackenzie Hughes, Canada (140) vs. Peter Williamson, Hanover, N.H. (140)
Cameron Wilson, Rowayton, Conn. (138) vs. Kelly Kraft, Denton, Texas (141)
Andrew Putnam, University Place, Wash. (138) vs. Juan Salcedo, The Woodlands, Texas (140)
Patrick Rodgers, Avon, Ind. (136) vs. Jack Fields, Southern Pines, N.C. (141)
Jonathan Garrick, Atherton, Calif. (139) vs. Charlie Hughes, Canada (140)
Sunil Jung, Korea (137) vs. Matt Ewald, Topeka, Kan. (141)
Denny McCarthy, Rockville, Md. (139) vs. Tim Madigan, Rio Rancho, N.M. (140)
Beau Hossler, Mission Viejo, Calif. (135) vs. David Denlinger, Lancaster, Pa. (142)
John Hahn, Las Vegas, Nev. (139) vs. Hunter Hamrick, Montgomery, Ala. (140)
Justin Thomas, Goshen, Ky. (138) vs. Michael Stewart, Scotland (141) (Stewart one down after two holes when play suspended Wednesday night) 
Corbin Mills, Easley, S.C. (139) vs. Jack Senior, England (140) (Match had yet to start when play was suspended)
Ben Geyer, Arbuckle, Calif. (135) vs. Ryan Peterson, Eagan, Minn. (141)
Chase Wright, Muncie, Ind. (139) vs. Jonathan Randolph, Brandon, Miss. (140)
Jordan Spieth, Dallas, Texas (137) vs. Jade Scott, Daingerfield, Texas (141)
Will Collins, Salisbury, N.C. (139) vs. Lee Bedford, Cary, N.C. (140)

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