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Spencer Tibbits Advances To Match Play At U.S. Amateur
August 12, 2020 | Men's Golf
BANDON, Ore. – Oregon State rising senior Spencer Tibbits advanced to match play at the prestigious U.S. Amateur.
Tibbits shot a 2-under 70 in Monday's round at Bandon Dunes and followed that with a 3-over 74 on Tuesday at Bandon Trails to finish in a tie for 48th place with a 1-over 144. The 120th U.S. Amateur featured 264 of the world's best amateur golfers competing at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort with the top 64 players advancing to match play.
He's the 48th seed and will face No. 17 seed Michael Brennan in the opening round of match play with the players teeing off at 9:35 a.m. Wednesday.
Here is the week's match play schedule:
Wednesday: Round of 64
Thursday: Round of 32 and Round of 16
Friday: Quarterfinals
Saturday: Semifinals
Sunday: Championship Match (36 holes)
It's the second straight year Tibbits has advanced to match play at the U.S. Amateur. He finished stroke play in a tie for 12th place last year with a 1-over 70-71--141 at Village of Pinehurst, N.C.
Carson Barry, a rising junior, also competed at the 120th U.S. Amateur and shot a 12-over 75-80--155.
Championship History
The U.S. Amateur Championship is the oldest USGA championship and it was created in 1895 because of a controversy. In 1894, two clubs -- Newport (R.I.) Golf Club and New York's St. Andrew's Golf Club -- had conducted invitational tournaments to attract the nation's top amateur players. Both clubs proclaimed their winners as the national champion, while Charles Blair Macdonald, a prominent player and course architect, was the runner-up in both. Before the final day of the St. Andrew's tournament, it was announced that an association composed of all the clubs in the United States would be formed in the ensuing months. This new national governing body would oversee a universally recognized championship and create a written set of rules.
With that, representatives from Newport Golf Club, St. Andrew's Golf Club, The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, N.Y., and Chicago Golf Club founded the USGA on Dec. 22, 1894, and the inaugural U.S. Amateur Championship was conducted the following year, along with the U.S. Open and U.S. Women's Amateur. The Amateur and Open Championships were conducted at Newport Golf Club during the same week of October and Macdonald became the first U.S. Amateur champion. Since the inaugural event, the U.S. Amateur has enjoyed an illustrious history of great champions, including Bob Jones, Phil Mickelson, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Tiger Woods. In 1930, Jones completed his Grand Slam by winning the U.S. Amateur at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa. Woods, in 1996, became the first to win three consecutive Amateur titles.
OUR MISSION
Oregon State Athletics strives to Build Excellent Authentic Visionary Student-Athletes (Go BEAVS).
Tibbits shot a 2-under 70 in Monday's round at Bandon Dunes and followed that with a 3-over 74 on Tuesday at Bandon Trails to finish in a tie for 48th place with a 1-over 144. The 120th U.S. Amateur featured 264 of the world's best amateur golfers competing at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort with the top 64 players advancing to match play.
He's the 48th seed and will face No. 17 seed Michael Brennan in the opening round of match play with the players teeing off at 9:35 a.m. Wednesday.
Here is the week's match play schedule:
Wednesday: Round of 64
Thursday: Round of 32 and Round of 16
Friday: Quarterfinals
Saturday: Semifinals
Sunday: Championship Match (36 holes)
It's the second straight year Tibbits has advanced to match play at the U.S. Amateur. He finished stroke play in a tie for 12th place last year with a 1-over 70-71--141 at Village of Pinehurst, N.C.
Carson Barry, a rising junior, also competed at the 120th U.S. Amateur and shot a 12-over 75-80--155.
Championship History
The U.S. Amateur Championship is the oldest USGA championship and it was created in 1895 because of a controversy. In 1894, two clubs -- Newport (R.I.) Golf Club and New York's St. Andrew's Golf Club -- had conducted invitational tournaments to attract the nation's top amateur players. Both clubs proclaimed their winners as the national champion, while Charles Blair Macdonald, a prominent player and course architect, was the runner-up in both. Before the final day of the St. Andrew's tournament, it was announced that an association composed of all the clubs in the United States would be formed in the ensuing months. This new national governing body would oversee a universally recognized championship and create a written set of rules.
With that, representatives from Newport Golf Club, St. Andrew's Golf Club, The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, N.Y., and Chicago Golf Club founded the USGA on Dec. 22, 1894, and the inaugural U.S. Amateur Championship was conducted the following year, along with the U.S. Open and U.S. Women's Amateur. The Amateur and Open Championships were conducted at Newport Golf Club during the same week of October and Macdonald became the first U.S. Amateur champion. Since the inaugural event, the U.S. Amateur has enjoyed an illustrious history of great champions, including Bob Jones, Phil Mickelson, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Tiger Woods. In 1930, Jones completed his Grand Slam by winning the U.S. Amateur at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa. Woods, in 1996, became the first to win three consecutive Amateur titles.
OUR MISSION
Oregon State Athletics strives to Build Excellent Authentic Visionary Student-Athletes (Go BEAVS).
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