EDEN TROPHY TOURNAMENT RESULTS

Leading qualifier Sam Binning (Ranfurly Castle) was given a walk-over and the majority of the top seeds made it through to the second round without too much anxiety in the Eden Trophy men's golf tournament at St Andrews today EDEN TROPHY TOURNAMENT St Andrews First round results S Binning (Ranfurly Castle) w.o. A Fortune (Kelso) scr). I Wilson (Dalmahoy) bt D Waugh (Baberton) at 20th K Lloyd (Wellingborough) bt M Head (Ashford) 3 and 2. A Day (Braodstone) bt G Watkins (Ullesthorpe) 5 and 4. T Morgan (Frilford Heath) bt G Cree (Troon Welbeck) 1 hole. J Leek (Millbrook) bt J Chudnofsky (US) 1 hole. A MacNaughton (Colchester) bt C Purves (Baberton) 1 hole.D C Appleby (Preston) br A Crawford (Hallamshire) 4 and 3. J Fawssett (Walton Heath bt J McCormack (Ballybunion) 2 and 1. D Bush (Rushden) bt D Steele (Millbrook) 3 and 2. D Stone (Lancaster) bt J Binning (Ranfurly Castle) 2 and 1. A Raphael (Littlestone) bt C Harrison (Sandiway) at 20th. H Geldenhuys (S Africa) bt R Owens (Chester) 5 and 4. M Hanson (Lancaster) bt T Aggett (Staddon Heights) 3 and 2. W Ralph (Tewkesbury Park) bt G Smith (West Linton) 3 and 1. A Mackie (Kinross) bt C Earl (Vicars Cross) 5 and 4. M Hogg (Rushcliffe) bt P Clarke (Hallamshire) at 20th. M Frangenberg (Ger) bt P Norris (Turnberry) 3 and 2. M Saunders (Gullane) bt  D Corcoran (Thurles) 3 ad 1. R Craig (Merchants of Edinburgh) bt S Shore (Norwood Park) 6 and 5. A Stone (Lancaster) bt M Thorpe (Richmond) at 20th C Blakebrough (Romford) bt K Goodwin (Glenbervie) 5 and 3. R Simpson (Bonnyton) bt A Love (Elderslie) 4 and 2. P Kitching (Millblack) bt L Grindrod (Cawder) at 23rd. S Prestcote (Shire London) bt A Carlyle (St Andrews) 4 and 2. S Brown (Old Padeswood) bt C Almond (Putney Park) 2 holes. D Henderson-Sowerby (Burford) bt D Finlay (Vicars Cross) 3 and 1. N Jones (The Duike's) bt A Baguley (Ashton on Mersey) 3 and 2 M Watt (Cathcart Castle) bt R Crowe (Kelso) 4 and 2. A Wiggins (The Vale) bt A Waddell (Glasgow) 3 and 2. C MacLean (Clydebank and Dist) bt F Alberto Zamudio (Arg) 2 and 1. G McGarva (Can) bt H Norton (Leighton Bussard) 4 and 3. ends

UNITED STATES MEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

Bobby Wyatt, of Mobile, Ala., carded a 3-under 68 Tuesday at CommonGround G.C. to earn U.S. Amateur medalist honors with a record-tying 36-hole total of 9-under 132. (Chris Keane/USGA)

FROM THE USGA WEBSITE

 

By Pete Kowalski, USGA
August 14, 2012

Cherry Hills Village, Colo. – Bobby Wyatt, 20, of Mobile, Ala., a University of Alabama All-American, tied the record for lowest 36-hole stroke-play scoring at 9-under-par 132 on Tuesday at CommonGround Golf Course at the 2012 U.S. Amateur Championship.
Wyatt posted three birdies and one bogey for a 2-under-par 68 at par-70, 7,378-yard CommonGround, the companion course for stroke play, to tie Gregor Main (2011) and Hank Kim (1994) for the lowest medalist score in U.S. Amateur history.
“I didn’t think about (the record) going into today, but it’s very humbling to have part of that record,” Wyatt said. “They change courses every year and there have been a lot of courses that par is higher than 70, 71. But it’s an honor. There have been a lot of great names to play in this championship and to do that certainly means a lot, but I have a lot of work to do this week.” 
The 2012 U.S. Amateur Championship began with a field of 312 players competing in 36 holes of stroke play. The field is pared to the low 64 scores for six rounds of match play, which begins Wednesday at 8 a.m. MDT at the par-71, 7,409-yard Cherry Hills Country Club. The championship is scheduled to conclude with a 36-hole final on Sunday starting at 8:30 a.m. MDT.
The U.S. Amateur is one of 13 national championships conducted annually by the United States Golf Association, 10 of which are strictly for amateurs.
Wyatt, who shot a 7-under 64 at Cherry Hills Country Club Monday, understands that making the match-play field just one step in a grueling process.
“I was pretty confident I was going to make match play so it was a good day for me,” said Wyatt, who won the Sunnehanna Amateur in Johnstown, Pa., in June and was the runner-up at the Southeastern Conference Championship and the NCAA Regional in Athens, Ga., earlier this season. “I’ve got to go and fine-tune things and work on the mental part of the game for me and my approach heading into the rest of the week. I played patient golf out there. I didn’t putt well really…I missed some putts, but I hit it really well. I feel real confident about things.”
Cheng Tsung Pan, 20, of Sammamish, Wash. who is originally from Chinese Taipei, and Jeff Osberg, 28, of West Chester, Pa ., each posted a 5-under-par 65.at CommonGround on Tuesday to trail Wyatt by two strokes.
Pan, a sophomore at the University of Washington, made eight birdies against three bogeys.
“I feel good about these two rounds,” said Pan, who earned first-team All-Pacific 12 Conference as well as All-America honors in his freshman year at Washington in 2011-12. “It gives me confidence going into match play. My goal is to win the tournament. Higher seeds always have an advantage.”
Osberg, a certified public accountant who was a member of Guilford (N.C.) College’s NCAA Division III national championship team in 2005, logged six birdies, including his last three holes, and one bogey at CommonGround.
“I just putted fantastically both days…probably the best I’ve putted in my life,” Osberg said. ”I made everything I looked at – every par putt I needed to make.”
Sebastian Vasquez, 22, of Mexico, followed a 65 at CommonGround with a 1-under 70 at Cherry Hills for a 6-under-par 136 total.
Also advancing to match play at 3-under-par 138 were two 2011 USA Walker Cup Team members: Chris Williams, 21, of Moscow, Idaho, who won the 2012 Western Amateur and is ranked No. 1 in the world, and Jordan Spieth, 19, of Dallas, the low amateur at the 2012 U.S. Open, who is ranked No. 3 in the world by the World Amateur Golf Ranking that is jointly administered by The R&A and the USGA.
The final 14 berths in match play will be determined in a 17-man playoff, which begins at 7 a.m. Wednesday at Cherry Hills.
LEADING MATCH-PLAY QUALIFIERS
Cherry Hills Village, Colo. -- Results of Tuesday’s second round of stroke play at the 2012 U.S. Amateur Championship, played at 7,409-yard, par-71 Cherry Hills Country Club and the 7,378-yard, par-70 CommonGround Golf Course.  (CH=Cherry Hills; CG=CommonGround; *=in playoff)
Bobby Wyatt, Mobile, Ala. 64-68--132 CG
Jeff Osberg, Philadelphia, Pa. 69-65--134 CG
Cheng-Tsung Pan, Chinese Taipei 69-65--134 CG
Sebastian Vazquez, Mexico 65-70--135 CH
Zac Blair, Ogden, Utah 65-71--136 CH
Brandon Hagy, Westlake Village, Calif. 65-72--137 CH
Curtis Thompson, Coral Springs, Fla. 70-68--138 CG
Devin Miertschin, El Paso, Texas 68-70--138 CG
Oliver Goss, Australia 72-66--138 CG
Chris Williams, Moscow, Idaho 65-73--138 CH
Richard Lamb, South Bend, Ind. 68-70--138 CH
Jordan Spieth, Dallas, Texas 69-69--138 CH
Nicholas Reach, Moscow, Pa. 70-69--139 CG
Talor Gooch, Midwest City, Okla. 68-71--139 CG
Zack Munroe, Charlotte, N.C. 70-69--139 CG
Justin Thomas, Goshen, Ky. 65-74--139 CH
Max Homa, Valencia, Calif. 65-74--139 CH
Jonathan De Los Reyes, Antioch, Calif. 70-69--139 CH
Bryson Dechambeau, Clovis, Calif. 67-73--140 CG
Ricardo Gouveia, Portugal 69-71--140 CG
Mackenzie Hughes, Canada 71-69--140 CG
Michael Hebert, Alpharetta, Ga. 71-69--140 CG
Adam Stephenson, Greenville, N.C. 70-70--140 CG
Brett Drewitt, Australia 69-71--140 CH