University of Florida recruit J.D.
Tomlinson shot 7-under-par 203 to win
the Florida Azalea Amateur at Palatka
Golf Club. Ranked 20th in the AJGA
Polo Junior Rankings, Tomlinson outlasted Chris Bray by two shots on the
par-70, 6,000-yard Donald Ross course
in northeast Florida.
Mitsuki Katahira
Greg Mergel, who shared the lead
with Tomlinson after the first and second
rounds, posted a final-round 76 and fell
back to fifth place. Duke Butler posted
the low round of the tournament, shooting 5-under 65 on Sunday to finish alone
in third. Italian teen Domenico Geminiani
started the day in second, three off the
pace, but shot a 5-over 75 to finish tied
for sixth.
OSU PLACES THREE IN WAGR TOP 15
Peter Uihlein continues to hold
down the top spot on the latest World
Amateur Golf Ranking, but Oklahoma
State teammate Morgan Hoffmann
made a significant move with a
victory in the Southern Highlands
Collegiate Masters in Las Vegas. Hoffmann claimed his fourth college win
and jumped 23 spots on the WAGR list
to No. 10. Another OSU Cowboy, Kevin
Tway, is ranked No. 12.
Three players gained footholds on
the Women’s WAGR list with victories
in different parts of the world. Aideen
Kellaghan of Costa Rica won the Costa
Rica National Match Play and takes
her place at No. 2,536; France’s Marion
Veysseyre won the Grand Prix Carcas-sone and moves up to world No. 2,603;
while Tariqah Walikraam of Bermuda
won the Bermuda Ladies Match Play
and comes into the ranking at No.
2,045. Japan’s Mitsuki Katahira moves
back into world No. 1 spot after a one-
week absence, replacing New Zealand’s
Cecilia Cho.
SMITH, KO WIN AUSSIE STROKE PLAY
Queensland’s Cameron Smith
birdied the first playoff hole to defeat
England’s David Coupland and win the
Srixon Australian Men’s Stroke Play
Championship at Victoria Golf Club on
Sunday.
Smith (66-71-70-68) led after each
round. But Coupland staged a furious
weekend charge, shooting 67-65, to
catch Smith on 13 under after 72 holes.
The Englishman shot 72-71 over his
first two rounds.
Meanwhile, New Zealand teenagers Lydia Ko and Cecilia Cho battled
it out in the Women’s Stroke Play at
Huntingdale Golf Club in Melbourne,
with the 13-year-old Ko outlasting the
16-year-old Cho on the second playoff
hole to become youngest winner of the
championship.
Ko, ranked No. 3 in the Women’s
World Amateur Golf Ranking, and Cho,
No. 2, finished the championship level
at 6-under par.
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SCOT LAW RULES IN SOUTH AFRICA
Scotland’s David Law rallied from
3-down after the morning match to
defeat South Africa’s Graham Van Der
Merwe, 3 and 2, in
Friday’s 36-hole final
and win the North-
ern Amateur Open
at Randpark Golf
Club in Johannes-
burg, South Africa.
In the final event
before the Men’s
Elite Squad returns to Scotland today,
the 20-year-old’s victory makes it a
Scottish double in South Africa, follow-
ing Michael Stewart’s South African
Amateur Championship win earlier
this month.
With his victory, Law became the
first player to win all three trophies
competed for at the event, also winning the MABS Abel Trophy for the
best aggregate score after 36 holes of
David Law
strokeplay, and Northern Strokeplay
Trophy, as the leading player after the
strokeplay event, cut short from 72 to
54 holes due to adverse weather.
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HOLMAN HOISTS RIVERSDALE CUP
Victorian Nathan Holman won the
116th Riversdale Cup in Melbourne in
a three-hole playoff with New South
Wales’ Matthew Steiger.
Holman opened with a course-re-
cord equaling 10-under 62 on the
Riversdale GC in Melbourne and
finished 72 holes on 8 under with
Steiger. A birdie on the 21st hole gave
Holman his first national title.
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HATTON DARWIN SALVER CHAMP
England and Walker Cup squad
member Tyrrell Hatton won the Bernard Darwin Salver at Rye GC on
Wednesday.
His closing 3-over 71 and 280 total
was good enough to take the South of
England Youths title. Overnight leader
Max Orrin shot 73 and finished second
at 283.
