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To check whether the course you’re thinking of playing is undergoing maintenance, visit our “All Events” page and scroll down to the bottom, or click on Local Golf Courses
As maintenance dates draw near, they’ll also rotate into view on this page.
Tim Madigan made bogey on the first hole of a 27-man play-off for four remaining spots in the U.S. Amateur Match Play portion Wednesday morning, and did not advance.
The format was three groups of four and three groups of five, playing No. 14 at Southern Hills Country Club. ” We were in the last group of five and there were two birdies in the groups before us, so we needed par to move on,” said father Steve, who was in the gallery as a spectator while Tim’s cousin, Jim Heimerle, looped for him.
“He missed the fairway right and the ball sat down in the Bermuda, and he made a nice chip to five feet, but missed the putt,” he said.
Madigan’s failure to advance left Sun Country with none of its three qualifiers in the field of 64, which was on the course today in match play that continues through Sunday at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla.
Tim Madigan of Rio Rancho tied for 61st with a 3-over round in Day 2 of the U.S. Amateur Championship this afternoon at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla., but faced a 27-man player for the four remaining spots in the match-play field.
The two other Sun Country qualifiers, Matt Williams of Albuquerque and Guillermo Chavez of Clovis, faltered and did not advance to match play.
Madigan posted a 5-over 75 on Day 1 at Cedar Ridge Country Club and moved over to Southern Hills for Round 2 Tuesday afternoon, where he posted a trouble-free 1-under on the front, which moved him up more than 20 spots to about 16th place.
The back nine, however, was a horrifying slide of five bogeys and a single birdie. He shot a 4-over 39 to limp in at 3-over for the day. The USGA scheduled the playoff to begin at 7 a.m. CDT, starting on the 14th hole of Southern Hills.
Williams of Albuquerque, executive director of the Sun Country Amateur Golf Association, finished Monday’s round at 6-over in a tie for 114th, and was only two shots behind the cut line, but fell to 16-over after a second-day score of 78 and finished in a tie for 177th.
Chavez, the third Sun Country qualifier, finished with a two-day total of 81-82, which put him in a tie for 287th.
The difficulty and pressure of Day 2 was seen by dramatic slippage across the field. Leader after Round 2 was Tim Jackson of Germantown, Tenn., at even. He had started the day at 2-under.
The Golf Channel picks up TV coverage Wednesday. Matches continues until the field of 64 is reduced to two finalists on Sunday.
The University of New Mexico Board of Regents is close to acting on a master plan that preserves the UNM North Golf Course for the time being.
Public comments on the plan, published on Aug. 11 in draft form, will be accepted through Sept. 9. The regents are expected to act on Sept. 29 on a plan developed by the architecture firm Dekker Perrich Sabatini to preserve the golf course as “reserve lands” and to improve the walking-running track around the course’s perimeter.
The master plan, when approved, will guide the University of New Mexico’s development strategy for the next 10 years.
Golf legend Kathy Whitworth and West Mesa High School graduate and LPGA player Rosie Jones will participate in Santa Ana Golf Club’s Pro-Lady tournament to benefit the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
The event is an 8:30 a.m. shotgun Oct 12 at Santa Ana Golf Club. A pre-tournament cocktail party will be held the evening of Oct. 11 at Twin Warriors Golf Club, says the tournament’s organizer, Twin’s director of instruction, Sandy Lemon.
Details to follow. For more information, call lemon at (505) 570-0442.
