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In battle of top two juniors, Luke Colton beats Miles Russell to advance at U.S. Junior Amateur
It was a match fitting for a final, only it came two rounds earlier. Luke Colton, 18, from Frisco, Texas, and the second-ranked junior player in the country, took down top-ranked Miles Russell, 4 and 3, in Friday morning's quarterfinals of the U.S. Junior Amateur at Trinity Forest in Dallas. Colton collected seven birdies in 15 holes, including birdies at each of his final two to put away the 16-year-old Russell, who is also ranked No. 18 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. Colton, No. 26 in WAGR, jumped on Russell early, making a long birdie putt from the fringe to win the par-3 third and go 2 up. Russell, who lipped out shots on each of his first two holes, would battle back, tying the match after six holes. After Russell drained a 30-footer for birdie at the par-4 ninth, Colton poured a 25-footer on top of him to tie the hole and turn at 1 up. He and Russell, both lefties, shot a best-ball, 6-under 30 on the front nine. To compare, the other three quarterfinals posted such marks of 33, 35 and 34. But Russell's putter would eventually cost him. He three-putted the par-3 11th from 12 feet for bogey to lose the hole and go 1 down. He later missed mid-range putts at Nos. 14 and 15 that could've extended the match. Colton now advances to Friday afternoon's semifinals, which start at 2 p.m. ET. He will face the winner of Hamilton Coleman and Sohan Patel; Coleman was 2 up through 16 holes. Texans have won eight of the last 25 U.S. Juniors with Noah Goodwin the most recent to do so, in 2017. Just two left-handers have won U.S. Junior titles – Brian Harman (2003) and Cory Whitsett (2007).
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Miles Russell, Tyler Mawhinney go on birdie streaks in first round of U.S. Junior Amateur
Miles Russell of Jacksonville Beach and Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island both used hot streaks during their rounds to propel them near the top of the leaderboard after the first day of the U.S. Junior Amateur on July 21 in Dallas. Russell birdied four of five holes in the middle of his round at the Trinity Forest Golf Club and shot 4-under 67 to tie for third. Mawhinney birdied four of his first five holes at Trinity Forest and with a 3-under 68 tied for who began his round at No. 10, was even par through six holes. He then birdied Nos. 16, 18, 1 and 2. Both will play their second rounds of stroke play on July 22 at the Brook Hollow Golf Club. The top 64 players after 36 holes of stroke play will advance to match play on July 23 at Trinity Forest. Kailer Stone of Alameda, Calif., a Pepperdine commit, and Qiyou Wu of China shared the first-round lead with 5-under 66s at Trinity Forest. Jackson Byrd of St. Simons Island, Ga., shot even-par 71 at Trinity Forest. The cut for match play is projected to be 2-over entering the final round. Phillip Dunham of Ponte Vedra Beach shot 75 and Brady Dougan of St. Johns shot 76 at Trinity Forest. Lucas Gimenez of Jacksonville posted a 77 at Brook Hollow. Defending Junior Players champion Hamilton Coleman of Thomasville, Ga., shot 72 at Brook Hollow. What did Charlie Woods shoot? With his father Tiger Woods, watching, Charlie Woods struggled to an 81 at Brook Hollow and is tied for 242nd. The son of another past Players Championship winner, Cameron Kuchar, posted a 74 at Trinity Forest with his father Matt Kuchar also among the spectators. When will area players tee off in second round? Times are EDT Miles Russell: No. 1, Brook Hollow, 9:32 a.m. Lucas Gimenez: No. 10, Trinity Forest, 9:48 a.m. Phillip Dunham: No. 10, Brook Hollow, 1:35 p.m. Brady Dougan: No. 1, Brook Hollow, 1:52 p.m. Jackson Byrd: No. 1, Brook Hollow, 2:03 p.m. Tyler Mawhinney: No. 10, Brook Hollow, 3:30 p.m. This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: First Coast products Miles Russell, Tyler Mawhinney go low at U.S. Junior Boys
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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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Miles Russell, Tyler Mawhinney brave the heat to win second-round U.S. Junior Amateur matches
After marathon opening-round matches on July 23, Miles Russell of Jacksonville Beach and Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island made shorter work of their second-round opponents on July 24 in the U.S. Junior Amateur, at the Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas. It was going to be a long day anyway. Russell defeated Lucas Latimer of nearby Rockwall, Texas, 3 and 2 and Mawhinney routed Stuart Boulware of Fairway, Kan., 7 and 6 to earn third-round matches under the broiling Texas sun that has produced a heat index of more than 100 degrees. Russell shot 4-under during his match and won with a birdie at the 16th hole. Mawhinney won four holes in a row from Nos. 2-5, all on birdies, led 7-up at the turn and won with a par at No. 12. Russell will play Miguel Garcia of Mexico in his third-round match, beginning at 2:25 p.m., while Mawhinney faces Sohan Patel of Weston at 2:45 p.m. That will be a rematch of the FHSAA Class 2A state final last year when Patel beat Mawhinney by four shots to win the individual state title and deny Mawhinney a second championship in a row. Fleming Island still won its second team title in a row. If Russell wins his third-round match he will play the winner of a match between 15-year-old Chase Bauer of Gotha, a suburb of Orlando, and Luke Colton of Frisco, Texas, on the morning of July 25. Mawhinney, if he wins, will play the winner between defending Junior Players champion Hamilton Coleman of Augusta, Ga., and Tyler Watts of Huntsville, Ala. When could Miles Russell face Tyler Mawhinney? If Russell and Mawhinney win their round of 16 matches on July 24 and then win again in the morning matches on July 25, they will play in the semifinals later that day. How to watch U.S. Junior Amateur Portions of the semifinal matches will be aired on Peacock on July 25 from 3-5 p.m. and a replay will be on Golf Channel from 7:30-9:30 p.m. The championship match will be televised on Golf Channel July 26 from 3-5 p.m. This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Miles Russell, Tyler Mawhinney move on in the U.S. Junior Amateur
