CURTIS THOMPSON WINS DIXIIE AMATEUR FOR A SECOND TIME
FROM THE DIXIE AMATEUR WEBSITE
CORAL SPRINGS (Florida) – Curtis Thompson, title-winner in 2011, joined a short list of players who have captured the Dixie Amateur multiple times when he birdied the second extra hole in a sudden death play-off Sunday to defeat Florida State University freshman Jack Maguire.
CORAL SPRINGS (Florida) – Curtis Thompson, title-winner in 2011, joined a short list of players who have captured the Dixie Amateur multiple times when he birdied the second extra hole in a sudden death play-off Sunday to defeat Florida State University freshman Jack Maguire.
Thompson, a local
favourite who lives just 10 minutes from the Heron Bay Golf Club, and
Maguire shot final round 65s to set up the play-off. Thompson missed a
10-footer for par on the 72nd hole to force the extra holes.
In a display of terrific shot-making, the final
group which also included third-round leader McCormick Clouser, had 21
birdies and one eagle.
Both Thompson and Maguire shot similar 32-33 nines and were never separated by more than one shot throughout the afternoon.
“I really didn’t know what I shot,” said Thompson,
who attends Louisiana State University and is the third member of the
golfing Thompsons; younger sister Lexi has won multiple times on the
LPGA already while older brother Nick has been playing on the US PGA tour
for a couple of years.
“I thought I had 66. I was more concerned with
playing each shot.”
Thompson was one behind on the 17th hole
when Maguire could not get up and down from the fringe and made bogey.
Curtis drained his birdie and the group went to the 18th with Thompson one up.
But he gave the shot back, three-putting from the
back fringe while Maguire two putted for par, missing a birdie putt that
would have won it by inches.
“I can’t be disappointed shooting seven under,”
said St. Petersburg, Florida resident Maguire. “This was one of my best
rounds of the year and as long as I didn’t lose it, that’s all I care
about. Curtis played just great.”
Thompson, who won this event in 2011, is the
seventh player to win the Dixie twice while Earl Christianson and Bill
Hyndman III won it three times.
“Win, lose or draw,” he said, “it was a
lot of fun today.”
In the Woodlands Winter Invitational played at
Woodlands Country Club, another ClubLink facility in nearby Tamarac,
Corey Knight beat Ryan Carter with a par on the first hole of sudden
death to win the inaugural event.
Knight, from Avondale, Arizona had a 73 to go with his opening round 69 while Carter, from Miami was two under Sunday to tie atop the leaderboard at 142.
The 83rd Dixie Amateur had players from 31 countries participate, a record for the event.
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