VOGES, SURBER LEFT BACK AS U.S. AMATEUR ROLLS ON.Byline: Daily News staff and wire services Neither Mitch Voges nor Russell Surber survived the cut from 64 to 32 at the 99th U.S. Amateur Championship after Wednesday's first day of match play at Pebble Beach Golf Course. Voges, the 1991 Amateur champion from Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. , lost to Paul Simson of Raleigh, N.C., 4 and 2. Surber, a former Flintridge Prep star who was All-Big Eight as a freshman playing this year at the University of Texas, lost to Scott Lander of Kingman, Ariz., 3 and 2. Both Voges and Surber advanced after the first two days of stroke play with two-round totals of 148. Both Simson and Lander shot 150. Gene Elliott of West Des Moines, Iowa West Des Moines is a city in Polk, Dallas, and Warren counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 46,403; a special census taken in the spring of 2005 counted 51,744 residents. , who had the best score of even-par 143 in the two rounds of stroke play, lost 2-up to Jason Martin Jason Martin is a musician from Southern California. He is best known as a member of the indie rock band Starflyer 59, one of the first bands to sign with Tooth & Nail Records. of Lenoir, N.C. Other notable players who lost Wednesday were Todd Miller, the 19-year-old son of PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used. (2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA. player and TV commentator Johnny Miller
John Laurence "Johnny" Miller (born April 29, 1947) is a former professional golfer on the PGA Tour who was born and raised in San Francisco. , and 16-year-old Christo Greyling, the youngest player in the field, who was defeated 6 and 5 by Robert Gerwin II of Cincinnati. Thirty-two golfers will compete in the second round, and that number will be halved for the third round of match play this afternoon. The quarterfinals are Friday, with the semifinals and final on the weekend. Several top golfers failed to even make match play. Matt Kuchar, the 1997 Amateur champion, missed the cut by two strokes and 1998 runner-up Tom McKnight also was eliminated. Although it couldn't be called an upset, Jerry Courville, 40, of Milford, Conn., a perennial contender in the Amateur and a 1995 Mid-Amateur champion and two-time Walker Cup member, went down, 2 and 1, to Michael Kirk, 22, a South African who was an All-American this year at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Another member of the amateur senior set suffered the same fate. The 1993 Amateur champion, John Harris, 47, of suburban Minneapolis, lost on the first playoff hole to Scott Weatherly, 21, a senior at Auburn. Perhaps the other big upset of the day was Charles Howell, an All-America at Oklahoma State who gave Tiger Woods all he could handle three years ago at Pumpkin Ridge as a high school kid, was shocked 2-down by little-known Gary Mankulish Jr., a senior at the University of Maryland University of Maryland can refer to:
John Pate, the older brother of PGA player Steve Pate, was another winner. Josh McCumber, the nephew of PGA player Mark McCumber won 3 and 1 and will face Nicholas Loar, a sophomore at SMU SMU Southern Methodist University SMU Solid (Waste) Management Unit SMU Saint Mary's University (Halifax, Nova Scotia; Philippines) SMU Singapore Management University SMU Saint Mary's University of Minnesota , in the second round this morning. Loar won 1-up over Jonathan Byrd of Columbia, S.C, a member of the Walker Cup team that will represent the United States next month in Scotland. THIS WEEK IN GOLF PGA TOUR Sprint International Site: Castle Rock, Colo. Schedule: Today-Sunday Course: Castle Pines Golf Club (7,559 yards, par 72) Purse: $2.6 million Winner's share: $468,000 Television: USA (Today-Friday, 4-6 p.m.) and CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. (Saturday, 4-6 p.m.; Sunday, 3-6 p.m.) LPGA LPGA abbr. Ladies Professional Golf Association TOUR Firstar LPGA Classic Site: Beavercreek, Ohio Schedule: Friday-Sunday Course: Country Club of the North (6,302 yards, par 72) Purse: $650,000 Winner's share: $97,500 Television: None. SENIOR PGA TOUR BankBoston Classic Site: Concord, Mass. Schedule: Friday-Sunday Course: Nashawtuc Country Club (6,787 yards, par 72) Purse: $1.2 million Winner's share: $180,000 Television: ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (Friday, 1-3 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 5:30-7 p.m.) CAPTION(S): Box BOX: This Week in Golf (see text) |
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