OPENING ROUND AT HERON BAY, FLORIDA

TEMPLE STUDENT MATTHEWS LEADS
 
WITH A 66 IN DIXIE 

AMATEUR

CORAL SPRINGS, Florida— After a first-round 66, Brandon Matthews, a junior (third-year) student at Temple University, leads the Dixie Amateur by a stroke with three rounds to go. Tied for second place at 67 are Drew Czuchry of Georgia Tech and Quinlan Prchal of Princeton while three others are just two back at 68.
Last year's winner, Curtis Thompson, who also won the 2011 event, recently turned pro and qualified for the Web.com Tour by placing eleventh at Web.com Tour Qualifying School.
The Dixie Men's Amateur, the third and final Dixie event taking place in South Florida this December, is being conducted at Heron Bay Golf Club and TPC Eagle Trace.
The 72-hole event will feature three rounds at Heron Bay before a 54-hole cut. The remaining players will finish the tournament at TPC Eagle Trace.

FIRST-ROUND LEADERBOARD
Par 72
66 Brandon Matthews
67 Drew Czuchry, Quinlan Prchal.
68
71 Cody O'Toole, Jackson Shoenfelt
72 Martijn Horters, Giovanni Tadiotto, Daniel Whelan, Peyton White.
+There is a problem with the display of all the scores through the
Dixie Amateur website. We have pointed this out to the organisers and asked them to sort it out. Not all the scores are being displayed
meantime.

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