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Dates: Monday, June 26 - Friday, June 30
Format: Two rounds of stroke play qualifying with the top 32 players advancing to match play. A playoff will be utilized to determine the final match-play spots if necessary. Rounds of 32 and 16 on Wednesday. Quarterfinals and semifinals on Thursday. 36-hole championship match scheduled to begin at 7:30 a.m. on Friday.
Host site: Boonsboro Country Club
Final match: Grayson Wood wins 110th VSGA Amateur Championship
(Grayson Wood. Photo credit: Chris Lang/VSGA)
By Chris Lang
LYNCHBURG -- Grayson Wood doesn't lack for confidence. As the week of the 110th Virginia State Golf Association Amateur Championship kicked off on Monday at Boonsboro Country Club, Wood chatted with VSGA Rules Official Brian Maloney and casually asked if he would be refereeing Wood's match on Friday.
When asked after stroke-play qualifying ended on Tuesday about his goals for match play, Wood said he wanted to go farther than last year. Considering he was a finalist at the 109th VSGA Amateur at Cedar Point Club, that statement meant only one thing: Win or bust.
Wood's confidence is well placed. Coming into Friday's 36-hole title match against precocious Blacksburg High School student Jake Albert, Wood had won 12 of 13 matches he had played in VSGA championships, including the final of the VSGA Junior Match Play last summer at Willow Oaks Country Club against Albert. Make that 13 of 14. Wood and Albert exchanged blows all day in a fast-moving match, but Wood's putter proved to be the difference in a grueling 1-up victory. Wood (Fredericksburg CC) became the first player since Virginia Golf Hall of Famer Wynsol Spencer to follow up an Amateur loss with a victory the next year. Spencer accomplished the feat in 1947-48. Rare indeed.
"Jake put up an amazing fight," Wood said. "Best match that I could have asked for."
Neither player held more than a 3-up lead, with that occasion happening deep into the second 18 holes when Wood made and up-and-down birdie from the mulch right of the 12th hole. As soon as he took control, though, Albert (Blacksburg CC) countered. He won the 13th hole with a par to cut the lead to 2-up. After both players made par on 14, Albert hit a silly 8-iron to 18 inches on 15 for a conceded birdie to pull within one.
That momentum was short lived, though. Albert blasted his drive on 16 into the woods left of the fairway, and though he was able to escape and advance it, he was still well short of the green. Wood hit what he called the best 5-iron of his life from 189 yards out to 10 feet. Albert's par putt came up one roll short, and Wood made a two-putt par to go 2-up with two to play.
Albert didn't wilt. He hit a 4-iron on the 227-yard downhill par-3 17th to inside of 3 feet right after Wood had hit his tee shot about 15 feet past the hole. Wood spent most of the day with a hot putter, rolling in 15 and 20 footers with regularity. He thought he had the match won on 17, but his downhill birdie putt lipped out at the last second, sending the match to the final hole.
"I hit 4-iron and striped it, and it landed right of the pin and kicked left," Albert said.
Albert was first to hit from the fairway and put his approach to about 10 feet on the fringe just off the left edge of the green. Wood said he didn't feel much in the way of pressure standing over his approach.
"I was more nervous about Jake's first putt than I was about the shot," Wood said. "That's just a normal wedge shot. That's what I think about when I'm hitting those golf shots. It's just another golf shot. There's nothing special about it, in reality. I was more worried about whether or not Jake was going to make his putt."
Albert was first to putt, and his birdie attempt to extend the match slipped past the hole. Wood needed a two-putt par to win, and his putter obliged once again. The two friends embraced on the green after the conclusion of one of the more thrilling Amateur title matches in recent memory.
Both players will participate in the U.S. Junior Amateur in July. Though Wood graduated from Massaponax High School in 2022, he took a gap year at a golf academy in South Carolina and just turned 18, so he still fits the USGA's junior eligibility requirements. He'll begin his career at VCU later this summer.
For Albert, the appearance in the Amateur final will certainly send his name rocketing up the college recruiting board.
"It's going to give me a lot of confidence going into my next tournament," Albert said, "knowing that I can play well and compete to win."
Day 4: Teenagers Wood, Albert power way into title match
(Pictured: Grayson Wood, left, and Jake Albert. Photo credit: Chris Lang/VSGA)
LYNCHBURG -- Venerable Boonsboro Country Club is spending 2023 celebrating its centennial, a worthy endeavor for a club steeped in rich history. Fittingly enough, it will host a historic Virginia State Golf Association Amateur Championship final match on Friday.
Teenagers Grayson Wood (18) and Jake Albert (16) each won twice on Thursday to set up the first championship matchup between two competitors who faced off in a VSGA Junior Match Play Championship final. That came just last year, when Wood bested Albert 3 and 2 at Willow Oaks Country Club in Richmond. Friday's 36-hole final, which begins at 7:30 a.m., will be the second in five years featuring a pair of teenagers. Michael Brennan (then 17) topped then 18-year-old Christopher Zhang 1 up at Keswick Golf Club in the 2019 final.
Wood is also the first repeat VSGA Amateur finalist since Brinson Paolini won three straight titles from 2008-10.
Wood opened Thursday with a 4-and-3 win over another teen, Chesapeake's Xander Goboy. He then survived a late scare to oust Richmond mid-amateur Sam Beach in the semifinals 2 and 1. Wood controlled much of the match, but Beach won the 14th hole to cut Wood's lead to 2-up. The pair tied 15 and 16, meaning Beach needed to win the next two holes to extend the match. On the long par-3 17th, Beach dumped his tee shot into the right greenside bunker. Though he escaped, he hit it 15 feet past the hole. Wood had a delicate downhill chip from just off the green, and he hit it to within a foot. Beach conceded the putt, giving Wood the win.
Albert, a rising junior at Blacksburg High School and a member at Blacksburg Country Club, survived two white-knuckle matches to earn his spot in Friday's final. He defeated Liberty University's Isaac Simmons--a 2022 U.S. Open participant--in 21 holes in the quarterfinals before hanging on for dear life to eliminate Radford's Bobby Dudeck III 1-up in the semifinals.
The morning match swung on 17. Simmons nearly chipped in for birdie from right of the hole. Albert escaped the right greenside bunker and had to make about a 12-foot comebacker for par to remain tied. It fell, and Albert unleashed a fist pump, a rare bit of emotion from the even-keeled teen. On 18, Albert had a chance to close Simmons out but missed a 6-foot birdie putt. The players tied the first two extra holes, but Simmons found trouble on the par-5 3rd, blasting his drive into the woods right of the fairway. He managed to find the ball but couldn't advance it very far. His third shot came up just short of the green. Meanwhile, Albert hit his drive into a fairway bunker but still reached the green in regulation. He missed his 6-foot birdie putt, opening the door for Simmons to extend the match with a 5-foot par putt. He too missed, and Albert tapped in the comebacker to advance.
In the afternoon, Albert made birdie on 15 to go 3-up with three to play. But Dudeck, who advanced to match play through a playoff, wasn't done. He stuck his approach on 16 to inside of a foot to cut into the lead then won 17 with a par. On 18, Albert's birdie putt just missed, and he tapped in for par, leaving Dudeck a downhill 15-footer to tie the match. He hit it a little too firm and it skittered past the hole, giving Albert his spot in the final.
Notable:
- Prior to match play, Wood said he hoped to go farther than he did last year, when he reached the final. Obviously, there's only one way to better that showing. No player has lost consecutive final matches since Wynsol Spencer in 1949-50.
- Five winners of the VSGA Junior Match Play have advanced to the Amateur final: Wood, David Stanford, Michael Brennan, Mark Lawrence Jr., and Chris McCartin. In addition, the following players lost a Junior Match Play final and appeared in an Amateur final: Albert, Jimmy Taylor, McCartin, and Ryan Stinnett.
- Dudeck fell just short in his quest to become the third No. 32 seed to reach the final since 2007. Pat Tallent (2007) and Mark Lawrence Jr. (2017) each won as 32 seeds.
- Albert turned 16 last December and is looking to join some elite company. Billy Howell won the first of his four VSGA Amateurs in 1928 when he was 16 years old. Then, Howell lost in the final two years later to another 16-year-old, Chandler Harper, a member of the Inaugural Class of the Virginia Golf Hall of Fame.
- Beach reached the Amateur semifinals in his first appearance in the event since 2011, when he also fell in the semis.
- The two finalists are exempt from qualifying for the Amateur for three years. Semifinalists are exempt for two years. The remaining quarterfinalists (Samir Davidov, Simmons, Brandon Ramsuer, and Goboy) are exempt from qualifying for next year's Amateur.
Quotable:
- "It was tough. I played as good as I could. I only had one bogey and made six birdies, shot 5-under through 17 holes. I had a really good short game and I was striking the ball better than I was earlier. Overall, just a good wrong." -- Wood
- "It's not really about who plays better golf, it's more about the strategy and who is going to hit those good shots when they need to. People are going to make mistakes, sometimes they're on the right holes, sometimes they're on the bad holes." -- Wood
- "It means a lot. Last year, I had a first-round exit. To come all the way back from last year to making the finals this year is great. I'm going against a good friend of mine in Grayson Wood, so it'll be fun." -- Albert
- "I took some time, just sat down in the clubhouse and cooled off a little bit. It was such a grind out there. Twenty-one holes is tough, especially when you're going up against a great player like Isaac." -- Albert
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Day 3: Top two seeds fall, quarterfinals set
(Pictured: Bobby Dudeck III; Credit: Abby All/VSGA)
LYNCHBURG -- Radford's Bobby Dudeck III snuck into the match-play field at the 110th Virginia State Golf Association Amateur Championship via a playoff early Tuesday evening. He made the most of that opportunity, dispatching stroke-play medalist Charlie Hanson on Wednesday morning before surviving a grinder of a match with Justin LaRue in the afternoon. Dudeck was one of eight to advance to Thursday's quarterfinals at Boonsboro Country Club.
Dudeck (Williamsburg National GC) topped Virginia Tech's Hanson (Hermitage CC) 5 and 4 in the morning match before besting Longwood's LaRue with a conceded par on the 19th hole in the afternoon. He'll meet another collegian--George Mason's Samir Davidov--in Thursday's opening quarterfinal match. Play begins at 7:30, with the semifinals scheduled to begin after lunch.
Others to advance included Blacksburg High School's Jake Albert, Liberty University's Isaac Simmons, mid-amateurs Brandon Ramsuer and Sam Beach, 2022 Amateur finalist Grayson Wood, and Catholic High School's (Virginia Beach) Xander Goboy.
A closer look at the quarterfinalists.
Bobby Dudeck III
- Seed: 32 | Road to the quarterfinals: def. #1 Charlie Hanson, 5 and 4; def. #17 Justin LaRue, 19 holes
- Takeaways: Dudeck led 2-up at the turn in his round-of-16 match but LaRue scrapped his way back and tied the match with a birdie on 16. Dudeck answered by making a 10-foot birdie putt on 17 after LaRue's pitch from off the green came up short. LaRue hit an outstanding uphill approach shot on 18 to 5 feet and sank the birdie putt to extend the match. Bogey free at that point, LaRue's approach on No. 1 (first extra hole) clipped a tree and landed well short of the green. His second look at the green settled in the rough. With Dudeck on the green about 25 feet away, LaRue essentially had to jar his chip but fell just short. Dudeck snugged his birdie putt to tap-in range and won with a conceded par.
- Quoting: "Getting by (Hanson) was definitely a confidence boost. That second match was a grind, I won't lie. Finally made some putts. He made birdie from the right rough on 18, which I thought was impossible. Before that, I hit out of a divot on the fairway and thought I had won the match. He played a good match, it was a battle." -- Dudeck
Samir Davidov
- Seed: 8 | Road to the quarterfinals: def. #25 Luke Libbey, 3 and 2; def. #9 Aryan Vuradi, 2 and 1
- Takeaways: Davidov not only faced one of his George Mason teammates in the second round. He faced his roommate. Perhaps that's how he knew that the match wasn't over, even as he was 4 up through 13 holes. Vuradi won the next three holes and stuck it to 6 feet on the long par-3 17th. Davidov did him one better and hit inside of Vuradi, who then missed his birdie putt. Davidov sunk his to advance. Davidov won the VSGA Junior Stroke Play title in 2022 and advanced to the Amateur quarterfinals for the first time.
- Quoting: "I came in with no expectations. I was praying I'd made the 32. I came in playing decent golf. Every round I make it through, I'm just super thankful to make it to the next one. Tomorrow, I'm just going to play my game, and if someone beats me, they beat me." -- Davidov
Jake Albert
- Seed: 4 | Road to the quarterfinals: def. #29 Joey Jordan, 5 and 4; def. #20 Drew Brockwell, 2 up
- Takeaways: Albert won a wild second match against Brockwell, who recently finished his Virginia Tech career. Albert went 4-up on the 12th hole when he sank a 35-foot uphill eagle putt after both players drove the green. Brockwell then birdied three of the next four holes to give himself a chance going to 18. But Albert hit a 9-iron from 140 yards out to 4 feet and sank the birdie putt to close out the match and advance.
- Quoting: "This makes me feel good about myself and how my game has progressed in the last year. From losing in the first round to now winning my first two matches, it's huge." -- Albert
Isaac Simmons
- Seed: 5 | Road to quarterfinals: def. #28 Reeve Felner, 3 and 2; def. #12 David Stanford, 4 and 3
- Takeaways: A semifinalist last year, Simmons (Mariners Landing GC) got the jump on both of his opponents on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals at his hometown course. He was 3-up through five against Felner, who plays at Belmont, and 3-up through seven against Virginia Tech's Stanford. Simmons said making long, bending putts was key on both matches. He made one on No. 1 in the morning and another on No. 8 in the afternoon, a key moment in which Stanford was about to cut Simmons' lead to 2-up. Simmons has plenty of knowledge of Boonsboro himself, but having two-time Fox Puss champ and Boonsboro member Connor Burgess on the bag all week has made that course knowledge doubly dangerous.
- Quoting: "We've putted better as the tournament has gone on. I say we because it's a joint effort, (Burgess) reading and me putting. I need to keep that up tomorrow. With this course, I think it really comes down to if you sink a few putts, if you can sink a few of those sidewinders out here, it can be big." -- Simmons
Brandon Ramsuer
- Seed: 18 | Road to the quarterfinals: def. #15 David Zhang, 2 and 1; def. #31 Rylan Shim, 2 up
- Takeaways: Ramsuer (Lakeside Park Club) survived a couple of tight matches, defeating Carnegie Mellon's Zhang with a par on 17 in the morning before making a par to knock off Florida signee Shim on 18 in the afternoon. Ramsuer teamed with Ryan Taylor to win the VSGA Multi-Format Team Championship in 2020 and has ramped up his individual play of late. He played in the Fox Puss here in the spring to prep for this event and fully committed to taking the week off of work to allow himself total focus at the Amateur, which he is competing in for the first time.
- Quoting: "It gives me a lot of confidence in the game. I'm working Monday through Friday and playing mostly on the weekends, but I've put a lot of work into the game the last couple of years and I feel like it's in a good spot. This week has kind of solidified that for me. It's showed I can hang with these guys who have a coach or instructor, etc." -- Ramsuer
Sam Beach
- Seed: 10 | Road to the quarterfinals: def. #23 Levi Brizendine, 4 and 3; def. #7 Justin Young, 19 holes
- Takeaways: Here's a fun fact. Beach was the player who ended Brinson Paolini's quest for an Amateur four-peat at The Virginian in 2011. He went pro after that and is playing in his first Amateur since being reinstated. After a comfortable victory in the morning, he grinded for every inch against Young, a past VSGA Mid-Amateur champion. He rallied from 3-down after eight holes and eventually tied the match on 14. He extended the match with a 12-foot par putt on 18 and won it by hitting a three-quarters wedge to 3 feet on No. 1 and draining the birdie after Young had just barely missed his birdie putt.
- Quoting: "It's good to be back in the mix, playing in tournaments, and having those competitive juices flowing, having to hit shots when you need to. It's been a lot of fun. I hope that I can keep it going." -- Beach
Grayson Wood
- Seed: 3 | Road to the quarterfinals: def. #30 Tate Corbett, 3 and 2; def. #14 Rui Chang, 4 and 3
- Takeaways: Yep, Wood still loves match play. He went on a famous heater in 2022, winning the VSGA Junior Match Play and Bobby Bowers Memorial Tournament while also reaching the final match of the VSGA Amateur. His record now in VSGA Amateur matches is 6-1. He summed up his love of the format by describing No. 6 in his match against Chang, where he hit a wayward drive while Chang was down the middle. Undeterred, he still attacked, trying to grind out a par to force Chang into matching. Chang three-putted, giving Wood a 2-up lead he never relinquished.
- Quoting: "I'm just looking to keep doing the same thing I've been doing. The first match, I was 3-under par. This one, I was 4-under through 15. I'm just looking to eliminate the bogeys and capitalize on other peoples' mistakes." -- Wood
Xander Goboy
- Seed: 11 | Road to quarterfinals: def. #22 Bryce Corbett, 4 and 3; def. #6 Carlo Pizzano, 4 and 2
- Takeaways: Goboy has one year left of high school before heading to North Carolina State. He's twice been stroke-play medalist at the VSGA Junior Match Play but hasn't entirely been able to put it together in a match-play setting. Wednesday, he knocked off a couple of college veterans in Corbett (Radford) and Pizzano (Loyola of Maryland), giving him confidence heading into a showdown with his good friend Wood.
- Quoting: "Feels great making the quarterfinals after losing in the first round last year. I went up against two really good players who put up a really good fight, but in the end, I made the putts that mattered. I'm excited, especially playing against one of my good friends. It should be a good match." -- Goboy
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Day 2: Hanson earns stroke-play medal; match play begins Wednesday
(Pictured, Charlie Hanson; Credit: Chris Lang/VSGA)
LYNCHBURG -- Virginia Tech's Charlie Hanson backed up his opening-round 65 with a 3-under 67 on Tuesday at Boonsboro Country Club for a two-day total of 8-under 132 to earn stroke-play medalist honors at the 110th Virginia State Golf Association Amateur Championship.
Hanson will be the No. 1 seed as match play begins on Wednesday. He's seeking to become the fourth Hokie player since 2015 to win the VSGA Amateur. Virginia Tech players Maclain Huge won the title in 2015, Joey Lane won in 2016, and Mark Lawrence Jr. won championships in both 2017 and 2020.
Hanson finished the two days of qualifying two shots clear of Grayson Wood, the 2022 finalist who is set to begin his college career at VCU, and Cornell's Ben Choe. Hanson will open match play on Wednesday morning at 7:30 against No. 32 seed Bobby Dudeck III.
Choe posted the round of the tournament on Tuesday, a 6-under 64 that left him at 6-under overall at 134 after his opening round of even-par 70. Wood followed his opening-round 69 with a 5-under 65.
Liberty's Isaac Simmons and Blacksburg Country Club's Jake Albert tied for fourth at 5-under 135.
The final match-play spots were decided by a 6-for-5 playoff. All six players teed off No. 1 at the same time. Joey Jordan, Reeve Felner, and Tate Corbett advanced with pars, and Rylan Shim and Bobby Dudeck III advanced with bogeys.
Notable:
- Eleven players who advanced to match play last year at Cedar Point are in the field of 32 this week: Aryan Vuradi, Isaac Simmons, Blake Carter, Patrick Gareiss, Grayson Wood, Rui Chang, Scott Shingler, Bryce Corbett, Xander Goboy, Carlo Pizzano, and Jake Albert.
- Vuradi, who plays at George Mason, will face Shingler, the 2011 champion who played at Mason in the 1990s, in one first-round matchup. There's also a matchup of current (Justin LaRue) and past (Blake Carter) Longwood University players.
- Past VSGA Mid-Amateur champions Justin Young and Buck Brittain will meet in another matchup. In all, nine mid-amateurs made it to match play. In addition to Young, Brittain, Shingler and Carter, Brandon Ramsuer, Jimmy Delp, Tim Pemberton, Joey Jordan and Sam Beach advanced.
- The only two seniors in the field -- Shingler and Brittain -- advanced to match play. Four juniors advanced: Albert, Shim, Goboy, and Luke Libbey.
- There are two matchups between players from New River Valley rivals Virginia Tech and Radford: Hanson and Dudeck, and Gareiss and Brockwell.
- Among those who missed the match-play cut were defending champion Ross Funderburke, three-time finalist Jordan Utley, 2021 champion Jimmy Taylor, and defending State Open of Virginia champion Nick Taliaferro.
Quotable:
- "The swing felt good all day, and then on the front nine, the putter got hot and I made a bunch of birdies. I pretty much played stress free and mistake free and coasted in." -- Ben Choe
- "Just one match at a time. I think I've realized from playing in this event quite a bit, that it really doesn't matter who you get paired against. Anyone can get hot. You have to treat each match like it's the final match, because you can't lose, right? I think last year, I did a good job of that. I was up big, and it got tight. Then I was down big, and it got tight. Then I lost in the semis, Grayson (Wood) was just putting and hitting it really well. It just makes me aware this year that anyone can be dangerous. I think I've got to clean my driving up a little bit, because if I'm driving it well, I have pretty good length and can take advantage of a few holes. To win a match out here, you're going to need five or six or seven birdies." -- Isaac Simmons
- "Just go for birdies and try to play my opponent instead of playing the course. ... You've just got to stay patient. You're never out of it, so you just stay patient." -- Jake Albert
- "I kind of struck it pretty well all day, no big misses. I just kind of got hot with the putter midway through my second nine, which was the front today. It didn't play a whole lot different. It was a little windier. But same vibe as yesterday. It was fun." -- Charlie Hanson
- "I'm excited. Nothing different, really. It's still golf, just a shot at a time. I've been doing that pretty well this week. I think it's more important to take pressure off rather than add it to yourself. Same mentality, same deal." -- Hanson
- "I didn't actually strike the ball that well. The driver was a little bit iffy. I was chipping and putting really, really well. I got up and down every single time--no bogeys. No real mistakes around the greens. It was just a matter of if I could keep it in play." -- Grayson Wood
- "I'm really pumped. I'm hoping I can do better than last year. It was a really exciting tournament last year. It seems to be the same this year. I really like the way the course is laid out. The greens aren't too fast, they're pretty smooth. The course is looking great, actually." -- Wood
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Day 1: Hermitage pair share early lead
(Pictured: Charlie Hanson/Credit: Chris Lang, VSGA)
LYNCHBURG -- Virginia Tech's Charlie Hanson and reinstated amateur Sam Beach each posted 5-under-par rounds 65 on Monday to share the lead after one round of stroke-play qualifying at the 110th Virginia State Golf Association Amateur Championship, held at Boonsboro Country Club.
The pair share a one-stroke lead over Radford's Bobby Dudeck III, who shot a 4-under 66. The second round of stroke-play qualifying is scheduled for Tuesday, with the top 32 players advancing to the match-play portion of the event which begins on Wednesday. If necessary, a tiebreaker will be utilized to determine the final match-play spots.
Hanson ran off five straight birdies during his morning round to counter a slow start. For Beach, it was an eagle on the par-5 10th that jumpstarted a strong back nine. Beach and Hanson are both part of a seven-player contingent in the field who are members at Manakin Sabot's Hermitage Country Club. Dudeck is a member at Williamsburg National Golf Club.
Five players were tied for fourth at 3-under 67: Belmont's Reeve Felner (Westwood CC), George Mason's Aryan Vuradi (1757 GC), Liberty's Isaac Simmons (Mariners Landing GC), Loyola (Md.)'s Carlo Pizzano (VSGA eClub), and William & Mary head men's golf coach Tim Pemberton (Two Rivers CC).
Overall, 34 players posted round of even par or better, which should make for an interesting chase to make the match-play field on Tuesday.
Notable:
- Boonsboro normally plays as a par 72 for members but is playing as a par 70 this week, with the par-5 1st and 16th holes both playing as par 4s.
- Defending champion Ross Funderburke (Furman/Roanoke CC) had a 4-over 74 and is tied for 76th. There are two other past champions in the field--2011 winner Scott Shingler, who posted an even-par 70, and 2021 winner Jimmy Taylor, who returned an 8-over 78.
- Last year's other finalist, Grayson Wood (VSGA uClub), is also in that tie for 14th at 1-under.
- Among those tied for ninth at 2-under were George Mason's Samir Davidov, who won last year's VSGA Junior Stroke Play Championship; Virginia Tech's Drew Brockwell; Radford teammates Bryce Corbett and Patrick Gareiss; and Rui Chang, who is headed to play at Maryland next season.
- Jimmy Delp (Laurel Hill GC) was among the players tied for 14th at 1-under, undoubtedly aided by an eagle he made on No. 11 when he holed out from the fairway from 147 yards out.
- Simmons recently participated in the U.S. Open championship.
- Boonsboro's two par-5s (No. 3 and No. 10) each yielded three eagles on Monday.
Quotable:
- "That was fun. It was kind of a slow start--a couple of bogeys and one birdie. But I caught heat starting on 6, made like a 15-footer. Then I put one to nothing on 7 and made a bomb on 8. Then a couple of just solid 4-to-6 footers on 9 and 10 for birdie. So it was good. Kind of stress free. It was a gift on 8 to make that putt, but it was good, it was rolling." -- Charlie Hanson
- "I made a few putts early. I got my tee ball going right a little bit, but I was able to keep it in play. I'm kind of steep on the ball, so hitting wedges from the rough is pretty easy for me. I made a couple of 20, 25 footers for birdie, and I don't usually make those. So it was good." -- Bobby Dudeck
- "I'm at a golf course quite a bit. I'm not always playing. Last week I was out at the Junior Match Play watching the guys playing through the rain. It's totally lowered my expectations, which helps. I'm just happy to be out here. It's nice to play alongside a lot of kids on my team, and some future players. I enjoy it." -- Tim Pemberton
- "I had like 225 and I was in between clubs. I got it up there and got a good bounce. I thought I was deep, but I was up there at like 6 feet and I made it. Then I proceeded to hit it in the trees on the next hole and made bogey. But I was able to get back going and made a few birdies coming in." -- Sam Beach
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