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birdies and one bogey before ending his
round with back-to-back pars. That was
enough to clinch the tournament with
an even par round of 72.
Ben Welle,
of Moorhead, Minn.,
played another solid round of golf as he
opened the final round with six consecutive
pars before a birdie on the seventh
put him at 1-under par. He gave the shot
right back with a bogey on the eighth
hole and made the turn even par.
As Matthew and Welle approached the
15th hole, the two were tied for the lead
at 4-under par. Welle's tee shot found the
first cut on the right side of the fairway
and tried to hit a low punch shot under
the trees. Welle's third shot ran up
the fairway, onto the green to within 10
feet of the pin. But Matthew put his approach
even closer as he caught the slope
of the green and spun the ball back to
eight feet for birdie. Matthew dropped
his birdie putt while Welle's par putt slid
past the hole.
" When I got to 16 is when I started to
feel it, " says Matthew. " I looked up and
saw that I had a twostroke
lead and that's
the first time I got
nervous. I bogeyed the
next hole, but knew all
I had to do was make
par on the last two
holes. "
That's exactly what
Matthew did.
He
made par on the final two holes to edge
Welle by a stroke, finishing at 4-under
par 212 to win the 110th MGA Amateur
Championship.
When his final putt dropped, Matthews
took off his cap and, with a wide
grin, acknowledged the sizable crowd
that had gathered on the final green as
they cheered his 54-hole performance.
Matthew's 20-year-old nerves could
be attributed to the fact that his name
will be inscribed on the trophy next
to names such as Harry Legg, Jimmy
Johnston, Tom Lehman and the rest of
the long list of Amateur Champions in
MGA history.
Top 15
Received
Qualifying
Exemptions
for the
2014 MGA
Amateur
FINAL RESULTS
1
Sam Matthew
Midland Hills Country Club
Medina Golf & Country Club
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Out 3707 36 38.834
10 415
4
4
3
5
4
4
3
4
4.290
11 539 5 4.847
12 395
13 248
14 555
15 378
16 400
17 170
18 450
4.429
3.595
5.311
4.354
4.247
3.209
4.499
In 3550 36 38.780
Total 7257 72 77.614
581 5 5.080 16 1
444 4 4.418 6 0
221 3 3.445 4 1
549 5 5.072 17 1
440 4 4.416 7 0
424 4 4.346 10 0
190 3 3.354 9 0
438 4 4.247 13 0
3
12
Hole Yards Par Average Rank Eagles Birdies Pars
420 4 4.456 3 0
Bogeys
0 26 227
20 191 141
75 214 69
29 188 132
17 194 140
64 229 65
24 195 131
35 209 103
16 222 123
38 223 96
318 1865 1000
108
18 8 109 203 42
5 0 33 178
1 0 11 157
11
4 46 196
8 0 31 209
14
15
0 35 229
0 37 235
2 0 18 186
135
178
94
109
91
88
136
12 346 1820 981
15 664 3685 1981
2
3
3
5
5
5
5
5
5
70-70-72-212
Ben Welle
Village Green Golf Club
69-72-72-213
Robert Bell
University Golf Club
72-71-72-215
Andy Jacobson
Eagle Creek Golf Club
69-73-73-215
Dylan Gergen
Mendakota Country Club
77-73-69-219
Trent Peterson
Valleywood Golf Course
72-76-71-219
Andy Paulson
Oak Glen Golf Course
74-74-71-219
Dominic Kieffer
Somerby Golf Club
71-76-72-219
Dylan Baker
Chaska Town Course
73-71-75-219
Dan Bidle
Virginia Municipal Golf Course +3
72-71-76-219
TEAM RESULTS
1
2
3
Rush Creek Golf Club
Troy Johnson
Tyler Lowenstein
Patrick Johnston
Dakota Clark
+7
439
Valleywood Golf Course
Trent Peterson
Sammy Schmitz
Justin Burleson
JT Johnson
443
University Golf Club
Robert Bell
Genki Hirayama
Alex Gaugert
Simon Kallel
+18
450
+3
+3
+3
+3
+3
-1
-3
-1
-4
+11
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