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All Four Sooners Advance to Match Play at Maridoe

December 02, 2020 | Men's Golf

CARROLLTON, TEXAS – All four Sooners playing in the Maridoe Amateur Championship have advanced to match play after 54 holes of stroke play at the 7,287-yard Maridoe Golf Club in Carrollton, Texas.

The non-collegiate tournament is playing host to some of the top amateur players in the country in a U.S.-amateur-style event that features stroke play and match play. The four competing Sooners all finished well above the cut to advance on Wednesday.

Jonathan Brightwell sunk nine birdies, the third-most in the field, to finish stroke play at 9-over and T11 on the leaderboard. The Oklahoma redshirt senior carded a field-low 69 (-3) on Tuesday and produced bookend rounds of 80 (+8) and 76 (+4) to finish as the top Sooner after 54 holes. The No. 11-seeded Brightwell will face Stanford freshman Karl Vilips, who is seeded 54th, in the round of 64 on Thursday.

Logan McAllister and Garett Reband both finishedĀ stroke play at 11-over but did so in different ways.

McAllister opened his tournament on Monday with an 80 (+8) and followed it with a 76 (+4) on Tuesday, but he fired a 71 (-1) on Wednesday to grab a share of 17th. The OU junior had a breakout fall for the Sooners, claiming medalist honors at the Big 12 Colonial Preview and a pair of top-20 finishes at the Maridoe Collegiate and East Lake Cup to finish the fall ranked ninthĀ in the nation. McAllister, the No. 17 seed, will take on No. 48 Maxwell Ford, a junior player from Georgia, in the round of 64.Ā 

Reband once again showed the consistency of his game by firing rounds of 76-76-75 (227, +11) to tie McAllister for 17th. The All-American had the fifth-fewest birdies in the field entering Wednesday's round as the York, S.C., product continued to show why he is the No. 6 player in the latest PGA Tour U rankings. Reband is the No. 20 seed after tiebreakers and will face No. 45 Benjamin Shipp from North Carolina State on Thursday.

The final Sooner competing was East Lake Cup winner Patrick Welch. The junior opened with a 79 (+7) on Monday but steadied his game on Tuesday and Wednesday by carding a pair of 76s (+4) to finish T37. Welch will square off with Oklahoma State's Brian Stark who is the No. 25 seed in the round of 64.

Ā Live scoring for match play can be found on the tournament's website. Golfers will play one match daily until a champion is crowned on Sunday.
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