ChAmpionShipS mediA GUide - USGA

Leaders
Round 1 – Paul Simson, at 5-under-par 67 (Houstonian Golf
& Country Club), by one stroke over John Engler and Kevin
Pomarleau, who played Shadow Hawk Golf Club. Round 2 –
Engler was medalist at 5-under-par 139, by one stroke over
Pomarleau and Simson.
Cut
At 5-over-par 149, with 20-for-3 playoff that lasted four holes
for the final match-play berths.
Weather
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Partly sunny and hot for both stroke-play rounds. On
Saturday, a thunderstorm delayed play for 2 hours, 32 minutes,
and 99 golfers failed to complete their first round when
darkness suspended play for the day. On Sunday, another
early afternoon thunderstorm suspended play for 3 hours, 45
minutes at 1:55 p.m. CDT. None of the golfers in the afternoon
wave completed their second stroke-play qualifying round
when darkness suspended play for day at 7:18 p.m. CDT.
The re-start of stroke-play qualifying on Monday morning
was delayed 30 minutes by a morning thunderstorm. It then
became partly cloudy to partly sunny for the rest of the day.
The first round of match play eventually was suspended due
to darkness with 10 of the 32 matches yet to be completed.
Fog on Tuesday morning delayed the re-start of round one
of match play and the start of the round of 32 by 30 minutes,
with play beginning at 8 a.m. CDT. The rest of the week, it
was sunny to partly sunny and humid with temperatures in the
upper 80s.
The Final: Lewis vs. Cook
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
5 4 4 3 4 5 3 4 5 4 3 4 4 5 4 4 3 5
4 4 4 3 4 3 3 4 6 4 3 4 4 5 4 4 3 5
5 5 4 2 4 4 3 4 5 4 4 4 3 4 4 5 3 7
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
5 4 4 3 4 5 3 4 5 4 3 4 4 5 4 4 3 5
4 4 4 3 5 3 2 5 4 4 3 4 3 5 4 4
4 3 4 4 4 3 3 4 5 4 4 4 5 4 4 4
2011 Championship Notes
Notes
U.S. Mid-Amateur 7
– Won hole
There were four past U.S. Mid-Amateurs in the field, including
two-time defending champion Nathan Smith. Smith and
2005 champion Kevin Marsh advanced to match play, while
George Zahringer (2002) and Dave Womack (2006) failed
to qualify … Tim Hogarth, the 2010 Mid-Amateur runner-up
and 1996 U.S. Amateur Public Links champion, also failed to
qualify … Paul Simson, 60, of Raleigh, N.C., the 2010 USGA
Senior Amateur champion, was the oldest player to make
match play … The youngest to make match play was Terence
Begnel, of Tulsa, Okla., who turned 25 three days prior to the
start of the competition. Begnel was also the youngest player
in the field … The oldest player in the field was 63-year-old
Rick Tenbroeck … Smith (2009 and 2011) and Zahringer (2003)
were the only two past USA Walker Cup Team members in
the field … Thirty-seven of the 64 match-play qualifiers were
reinstated amateurs and there were 93 reinstated amateurs in
the entire field … Match-play qualifier Nicholas Biesecker, of
Staunton, Va., serves as a player-agent for Blue Giraffe Sports,
the management company which represents 2008 U.S. Girls’
Junior champion Alexis Thompson, who on Sept. 18 at the
age of 16 became the youngest champion in LPGA Tour history
… Former major league baseball pitcher Mike Ignasiak
was among the 20 golfers in the playoff for the final four spots.
He also was in a playoff at the U.S. Amateur in August. In each
instance, Ignasiak failed to get into the match-play draw …
The average age of the 264 competitors was 37.09 … Matchplay
qualifier Gary Robinson of San Diego, Calif., celebrated
his 33rd birthday during the first day of match play … A total
of 83 golfers were participating in their first USGA championship
and 129 were competing in their first U.S. Mid-Amateur
... Mike McCaffrey, of League City, Texas, shot 68-68—136.
However, he was disqualified after the championship upon
discovery that he had forfeited his amateur status due to
actions prior to the championship.
Mid-Am