in the 60s, shot a final-round 64, 8-under par,
to put pressure on Carney. Madigan shot 266
and finished second. The third-place finisher,
Logan McCracken, was 12 shots behind Carney
at 274.
Alex McMahon broke the course record in
the second round when he shot a 9-under 63,
only to have that record bested the next day
when Carney shot his 62.
rial Invitational at New York’s Quaker Ridge
GC. Buckley shot 3-over-par 143 to win by
four over Mike Miller ... Sunnehanna Ama-
teur champion Nathan Smith moved into the
top 100 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking
(WAGR). The 32-year-old
mid-am is now ranked
REEVES CLAIMS SOUTHEASTERN AMATEUR
Georgia Tech’s Seth Reeves, playing a
course he has known since he was 12 years old,
won the Southeastern Ama-
teur at the Country Club
of Columbus in Georgia.
Reeves shot 6-under-par
278 to beat Sepp Straka by
three shots. Reeves, who
finished 12th here a year
ago, carded three sub-70
rounds before posting a
Emiliano Grillo
No. 98 in the world. UCLA
sophomore Patrick Cantlay
holds the top spot for the
second week in a row ...
Emiliano Grillo took a
chance on the U.S. Open
but it didn’t work out as
Seth Reeves
final-round 74. He opened with a 68, and led
or held a share of the lead for the remainder
of the 72-hole event, played on a 1925 Donald
Ross-designed course.
Straka was the only player to put any
pressure on Reeves, closing to within a shot
after three front-nine birdies. A bogey-bogey-
double-bogey sequence on holes 11-13 ended
his chances.
Keith Mitchell finished solo third at 2-under
par, while Jordan Walor and Brad Smith fin-
ished at 1 under. They were the only players in
the 96-man field to finish under par. Two-time
defending champion Derek Chang finished T6
at even par 284.
NEWS AND NOTES
Southern Methodist University senior Max
Buckley won the prestigious Hochster Memo-
hoped. A member of the field of the Monroe
Invitational, Argentinean Grillo found himself
as first alternate at Congressional. He with-
drew and left Rochester for Congressional to
wait. Unfortunately, no one dropped out, and
Grillo did not get in the Open field ... Little Mill
CC’s Michael Hyland eked out a 1-up vic-
tory over Stephen Hudacek from Glenmaura
National GC to win the 111th Philadelphia
Amateur Championship in a 36-hole match at
Manufacturers G&CC. Hyland, 32, previously
won this title in 2000. He turned pro shortly
thereafter but was recently reinstated ... 2008
Texas Amateur champion Kelly Kraft won the
title for the second time. Kraft shot 3-under-par
285 to beat third-round leader Garrett Driver by
a shot at historic Austin CC ... Wofford College
junior Mark Joye defeated University of South
Carolina-Upstate sophomore Adam Goins 3 and
2, to win his first Carolinas GA championship
title ... 20 year-old Harold Varner, of Gastonia,
fired the day’s low round of 66 for a 274 total to
win the North Carolina Amateur Championship
at Greensboro Country Club’s Farm Course.
Varner becomes the first male African-American
to claim a CGA championship.
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