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Leaders
Round 1 – Devon Purser, at 1-under 69 on Bandon Trails, by
one stroke over Jonathan Randolph, Derek Ernst and Maxwell
Marsico. Round 2 – Corbin Mills was medalist at 3-under 141,
by three strokes over Randolph.
Cut
At 11-over 152, with a 6-for-2 playoff that lasted one hole for
the final match-play berths.
Weather
Cloudy, cold and windy for the first day of stroke play on
Monday, with afternoon showers. On Tuesday, it remained
overcast, but with diminishing winds and temperatures in the
upper 60s. The rest of the week, it was overcast early in the
morning, giving way to sunshine and windy conditions, with
gusts around 30 mph on Friday afternoon for the semifinals.
Temperatures were in the 60s most of the week.
Notes
HOLE
PAR
MILLS
ERNST
HOLE
PAR
MILLS
ERNST
The Final: Mills vs Ernst
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
4 3 4 4 3 5 4 3 4 4 4 3 4 4 5 4 5 4
4 4 3 3 3 5 4 2 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 3
5 2 5 4 3 4 5 3 4 4 5 4 3 4 5 5 3 4
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
4 3 4 4 3 5 4 3 4 4 4 3 4 4 5 4 5 4 4
6 3 4 4 3 4 4 3 4 5 6 3 4 4 4 5 4 4 4
6 4 3 5 3 5 4 3 3 4 4 2 3 4 5 4 6 4 5
The youngest player in the field was 15-year-old Kyle Brey,
of Farmingdale, N.Y., while the oldest was 58-year-old Dick
Wenzel, of Sparks, Nev. ... Two 15-year-olds made match
play: reigning U.S. Junior Amateur champion Jim Liu and
Korea’s Peter Kyo Won Woo. Both lost in the first round ...
Two USGA champions were in the field: 1996 U.S. Amateur
Public Links winner Tim Hogarth and Liu. Hogarth withdrew
in the first round of stroke play due to a hand injury ... Besides
the United States, seven other countries were represented:
Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, Korea and
the People’s Republic of China ... Reigning champion Lion Kim
2011 Championship Notes
U.S. Amateur Public Links 7
– Won hole
did not defend his title ... Forty-two states were represented
(all but Delaware, Louisiana, Maine, Nebraska, North Dakota,
Rhode Island, Vermont and West Virginia) ... Scott Kammann,
32, of Baneberry, Tenn., was the oldest to make match play. The
reinstated amateur was playing his first APL since making the
semifinals in the event 17 years ago ... Derek Ernst recorded what
is believed to be the first hole-in-one on a par 4 in APL history.
He aced the 299-yard eighth hole at Bandon Trails in the first
round of match play. Ernst nearly aced the par-3 12th hole during
the afternoon session of the championship match. His ball
stopped inches from the hole ... Brothers Jameson and Justin
Keiley, of Haiku, Hawaii, qualified for the championship. Neither
made match play ... Andrew Vijarro was the only player from
Oregon to make match play. The Bend resident advanced to
the quarterfinals, along with his University of Oregon teammate,
Daniel Miernicki, of Santee, Calif.
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