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Dallas Drama: Tyler Mawhinney, Miles Russell win opening U.S. Junior Am matches on closing birdies
Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island and Miles Russell of Jacksonville Beach staged dramatic comebacks to win their first-round U.S. Junior Amateur matches on July 23 under broiling conditions in Dallas. In both cases, the two birdied the 514-yard, par-4 18th hole at the Trinity Forest Golf Club to either win or extend their matches as the heat index climbed to more than 100 degrees. Mawhinney lost a 2-up lead through six holes and trailed Lapassapon Heras-Gomez of Thailand 1-up with six to play. But Mawhinney won the 14th hole with a par, halved No. 17 with a birdie, then busted a 360-yard drive at the last, hit a wedge from 140 yards out to within 15 feet and made the putt for the victory. Russell went two down to Ormond by the third hole, cut it to one hole four times, then tied the match with a 40-foot birdie putt at No. 18 and won with a 2-foot birdie putt on the 20th hole, the par-5 second. Who do Tyler Mawhinney, Miles Russell play in the second round? Mawhinney will face Stuart Boulware of Fairway, Kan., in the second round on July 24 at 9:15 a.m. (EDT). Both players have led their high school teams to a pair of state championships, Mawhinney at Fleming Island High in 2023 and 2024 and Boulware at Shawnee Mission East in 2022 and 2024. Boulware defeated Anh Huy Ho of Vietnam 6 and 4 in the first round. Russell will play Lucas Latimer of nearby Rockwell, Texas at 8:35 a.m.. Latimer defeated Peyton Smith of Lees Summit Mo., 3 and 2. On paper, it's a mismatch: Russell is first on the American Junior Golf Polo Rankings, while Latimer is No. 1,829. Russell has verbally committed to play at Florida State, while Latimer will enroll at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. But match play can be the great equalizer and while Ormond has committed to play at Florida, he's ranked 45th on the AJGA and was on the brink of eliminating Russell. If Russell and Mawhinney win, they will play another match in the afternoon. Junior Players champion goes overtime Russell's match wasn't the longest of the day under the oppressive heat. Defending Junior Players champion Hamilton Coleman of Augusta, Ga., defeated Isaiah Igo of Sundown, Texas, in 25 holes, with a par at the par-4 seventh hole. The two were tied 11 holes in a row. It tied for the third-longest match in U.S. Junior Amateur history and was the longest since Casey Wittenberg defeated. Daniel Im in 26 holes in the third round in 2022, at the Atlanta Athletic Club. The No. 1 seed from stroke play, Mason Howell of Thomasville, Ga., lost his first round match to Henry Guan 1-up, with Guan holding that slim lead over the final seven holes. Cam Kuchar, the son of 2012 Players champion Matt Kuchar, lost his match to Kailer Stone of Alameda, Calif., 2 and 1. How to watch the U.S. Junior Amateur The tournament won't be televised until Friday's semifinal matches on Peacock from 3-5 p.m. Golf Channel will have a replay from 7:30-9:30 p.m. The championship match will be aired on Golf Channel from 3-5 p.m. This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Tyler Mawhinney, Miles Russell win pulse-pounding U.S. Junior Am matches
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Tyler Mawhinney rallies on back nine to reserve a spot in U.S. Junior Amateur match play
Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island was getting uncomfortably close to the projected cut for match play in the second round of the U.S. Junior Amateur on July 22. But the rising senior at Fleming Island High School and Vanderbilt commit birdied three of his last five holes at the Brook Hollow Golf Club in Dallas and, at even-par 141, reserved a spot in the field of 64 players who will begin match play on July 23 at the Trinity Forest Golf Club. Mawhinney (73) tied for 24th after dipping as low as a tie for 36th and joins Miles Russell of Jacksonville Beach (72 at Brook Hollow) in match play. Russell shot 2-under 139 to tie for eighth. Russell will play Jackson Ormond, a resident of Webster, N.Y., who has verbally committed to the University of Florida, at 9:40 a.m. on July 23. Russell committed to Florida State on June 30. Mawhinney's first match will be against Lapossapon Heras-Gomez of Thailand, beginning at 11:10 a.m. Tyler Mawhinney has rough start Mawhinney, who shot 68 in the first round at Trinity Forest, began his round at Brook Hollow on the 10th hole, was 5-over for the day and 2-over for the tournament through his first 12 holes. He parred the par-3 fourth hole, then got his first birdie of the day on a 6-foot putt at No. 5 Mawhinney then drained a 27-footer for birdie on the next hole, and bounced back from a bogey at No. 7 with a closing birdie, on a roll of 23 feet. Mawhinney already has one USGA national championship this season. He and future Vanderbilt teammate Will Hartman won the U.S. Amateur Four Ball on May 22. Russell, who shot 67 in the first round, was 2-over through five holes in the second, then stopped the bleeding with a birdie at the par-3 eighth hole. He bogeyed Nos. 11 and 13 but played his final five holes at 1-under with no additional blemishes on the card, with a birdie at the 615-yard, par-5 15th. Four other area players failed to qualify for match play: Phillip Dunham of Ponte Vedra Beach and Jackson Byrd of St. Simons Island, Ga., (7-over, tied for 105th), Lucas Gimenez of Jacksonville (11-over, tied for 166th) and Brady Dougan in St. Johns (15-over, tied for 212th. Did Charlie Woods qualify for match play? Charlie Woods, the son of 15-time major champion and two-time Players champion Tiger Woods improved on his first-round 81 at Brook Hollow but his 74 in the second round at Trinity Forest wasn't nearly enough and he finished at 14-over-par 155 and in a tie for 196th. Tiger Woods followed his son all 18 holes for the second day in a row. Woods won the U.S. Junior Amateur three times, then added three U.S. Amateur titles and three U.S. Opens for nine USGA championships in his career. Among Charlie Woods' next appearances is scheduled to be the Junior Players Championship, Aug. 28-31, at the TPC Sawgrass Players Stadium Course, where his father won the 2001 and 2013 Players Championships, as well as the 1994 U.S. Amateur. This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Tyler Mawhinney, Miles Russell reserve spots in U.S. Junior Am Match Play
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Scottie Scheffler ally insists he'll never be the same as Tiger Woods because he's missing one thing
Jordan Spieth insists Scottie Scheffler will never be the same as Tiger Woods. The World No.1 is racking-up milestones to match the 15-times major winner and drawing big comparisons from his peers. Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele and Shane Lowry were amongst those who talked about the historical context and sizzling nature of Scheffler's blistering current run. READ MORE: Scottie Scheffler kills Rory McIlroy battle cry stone dead as world's best brutally underlines his brilliance READ MORE: Ianis Hagi shows true colours as Rangers hero gives ex SPFL rival priceless words of advice after box office transfer The 29-year-old was quick to cast aside any Woods comparisons in the wake of his Royal Portrush romp and Spieth has given an astounding insight into the mindset of golf's king. Spieth says his fellow Texan's his very differing traits and explained: "I think more so maybe it's less the golf swing and maybe more of his personality. He doesn't care to be a superstar. He's not transcending the game like Tiger did. He's not bringing it to a non-golf audience necessarily. 'He doesn't want to go do the stuff that a lot of us go do, corporately, anything like that. He just wants to get away from the game and separate the two because I know at one time, he felt it was too much, that he was taking it with him and, whenever he made that switch, I don't know what it was, but he has hobbies. 'He's always with his family. They're always doing stuff. I think it's more so the difference in personality from any other superstar that you've seen in the modern era and maybe in any sport. I don't think anybody is like him. 'He has that unique ability, from best I can tell, to separate. But again, when I see him, I'm at the golf course. I see him here and there off the course, but when we're playing on the course at home, he sh*t talks. He's very witty. You can't really go at him because he's smart and he's got good bulls***. 'I mean, it's not necessarily just to me. It's normally the other people that we're playing with. But not that I want to say it, I'm not going to quote him on that kind of stuff. 'But then when a tournament starts, he's incredibly competitive, as you see. He's kind of plotting along. You won't see that much emotion as he continues to strike it like this because the only time you're going to see it is when he's on the greens if he misses putts because he's not missing many shots. 'I wouldn't necessarily think that the golf swing makes as much of a difference as the personality match. I'm thinking about so many other sports. Nikola Jokic is the only guy I can think of that's a superstar that's equally unassuming in any sport in the modern era and I'm happy if anybody else can find another example, but it's very rare. Most people lean into it and take advantage of it. 'Roger Federer, he's maybe the same kind of demeanor and person. As a person he's different, but he made more off the court than he did on all the time and he cared to. When Scottie is done playing, he's not going to show back up at tournaments. I can promise you that.' Spieth and Scheffler came up through the ranks at roughly the same time in Texas and the 2017 Open champion, who will go back to the scene of his Birkdale triumph next year, said: 'Obviously he won a US Junior, like he was a great junior, but I think maybe after the Ryder Cup, watching him when he beat Jon [Rahm] and then when he came and won in that playoff in Phoenix, it's like, now he knows he didn't have to do anything different and he's good enough to win any week. 'He's obviously well-deserving of it, probably the most deserving player of it {The Open]. And I've thought the way that his game is the last few years, the harder the conditions, the better for him over here. "If there's ever a chance for someone to take him down, it's when it's benign. But he's been putting so well, I have a hard time thinking anybody else would get it done.'
