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Thursday, May 24, 2018

Maude, Sawin team up again and make a little run at U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship


   Tug Maude and John Sawin were Haverford School standouts early in my days as the golf writer at the Delaware County Daily Times.
   I could say I covered them, but that wouldn’t be entirely accurate. With the Inter-Ac League playing golf in the spring in those days, there was just too much going on with all the high school sports at that time of the year to get out to any matches or even the individual championship.
   But I knew they were pretty good players, both Merion Golf Club members, and both were All-Delco selections. In hunting around the Internet for this post, I found a Golf Association of Philadelphia account of the 2005 Patterson Cup won by Maude in a playoff with Conrad Von Borsig, whose high school career at Strath Haven had just ended and which I had covered pretty extensively because the PIAA’s fall schedule fit my schedule a lot better.
   Maude had just finished up at Wake Forest and Sawin actually caddied for him in the 18-hole Patterson Cup playoff. Maude, who had lost in the BMW Philadelphia Amateur final earlier that summer, was also the runnerup in the Silver Cross standings – to Sawin.
   I was near the end of my time at the Daily Times four summers ago when I ventured up to Stonewall – where I revived my caddying career two years ago, caught a loop today on a beautiful May day at the Old Course – for a U.S. Amateur qualifier.
   And Sawin shared the qualifying medal. He was about to turn 30 and explained how he had taken the summer off from his high-stakes investment financing job in San Francisco to play some high-level competitive golf and attend a few weddings and bachelor parties.
   So it was interesting to see the old Haverford School teammates join forces again this week for the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship at the Jupiter Hills Club’s Hills Course in Tequesta, Fla.
   Sawin is still listed as residing in San Francisco, so I imagine he is still finding some time to broker a deal here and there in the world of high finance. Maude is listed as living in Atlanta. I’m pretty sure Maude embarked on a brief career in professional golf. I think I chronicled his decision to turn pro in my summer golf column, but I couldn’t quite dig that one up on the Internet.
   And, not surprisingly, Sawin and Maude acquitted themselves quite well at Jupiter Hills. They qualified for match play with an even-par 70 at the Hills Course after an opening round of 4-under 66 at the Villages Course for a 4-under 136 total that left them in a tie for 16th.
   They cruised to a 3 and 2 victory over Michael Childress and Langsdon Robbins, high school teammates in North Carolina, in the opening round of match play.
   Sawin and Maude then ran into the buzzsaw that was Cole Hammer, an 18-year-old from Houston, and fellow junior standout Garrett Barber, an 18-year-old from Stuart, Fla.
   Hammer, headed for Texas later this summer, and Barber, an LSU commit, rolled past Sawin and Maude, 4 and 3, in the round of 16 Tuesday morning on their way to the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship.
   Hammer and Barber reached the semifinals later Tuesday afternoon with a 3 and 2 victory over former North Texas teammates Zach Atkinson, a 35-year-old Colleyville, Texas resident, and Brad Gibson, a 35-year-old Lewisville, Texas resident.
   Atkinson and Gibson could boast of being the only team to ever lead Hammer and Barber as the Texans won the first hole of the quarterfinal match and halved the second.
   Hammer and Barber claimed a 5 and 4 victory over Idaho high school teammates Sam Tidd of Meridian and Carson Barry of Eagle, in the semifinals Wednesday morning.
   In the final, Hammer and Barber captured the title with a convincing 4 and 3 victory over a pair of Floridians, 32-year-old Marc Dull of Winter Park and 49-yaar-old Chip Brooke of Altamonte Springs. Dull, the 2015 U.S. Mid-Amateur runnerup at the Johns Island Club in Vero Beach, Fla., is a looper at the Streamsong Resort.
   Dull and Brooke had played probably the match of the tournament when they survived a 22-hole marathon over Georgians David Denham, a 35-year-old Athens resident, and Stuart Moore, a 35-year  old from Gainesville, in the quarterfinals.
   Hummer and Barber had stated their intentions when they teamed up for a front-nine 28 at the Hills Course in the second round of qualifying that enabled them to finish third behind qualifying medalists Bobby Bucey and Brett Viboch, both Northern California residents.
   Bucey, a 29-year-old resident of Concord, and Viboch, a 34-year-old from Moraga, had a 66 at the Hills Course and a sizzling 7-under 63 on the Village Course for an 11-under 129 total. Hummer and Barber rode that blazing front nine to a 64 at the Hills Course, which, combined with a 67 at the Village Course, left them two shots behind Bucey and Viboch at 9-under 131.
   On the final day, in the semifinals and the title match, the wunderkids had 10 birdies and two eagles. They were a remarkable 7-under for the 15 holes the final lasted. They never had to play the 17th or 18th holes in match play.
   “Growing up watching U.S. Opens and U.S. Amateurs on TV, I just know being a USGA champion is something I desperately wanted,” Hammer told the USGA website. “And to finally do it, it feels incredible. It feels as good, if not better, than I thought it would.
   “And especially being able to do it with Garrett. It’s really cool to share this moment and I’m sure we’ll look back on this for a long time.”
   Barber echoed his partner’s feelings.
   “Pretty cool, I mean the USGA, everybody knows it’s a world-class organization, the best championships around the world,” Barber told the USGA website. “It means so much to be on that Wall (of Champions) in the (USGA) Museum (at Golf House). I can’t really put it into words.”
   Sean Semenetz and Jack Wallace, a week removed from helping Philadelphia Cricket Club’s first team capture the BMW Team Matches Playoff, just missed making a seven-teams-for-six-spots playoff in qualifying. Semenetz and Wallace fired a 1-under 69 at the Hills Course and matched par with a 70 at the Village Course for a 1-under 139 total.
   A couple of former Conestoga standouts a generation apart, 29-year-old Stephen Dressel and 42-year-old Brian Gillespie, were the medalists in the local qualifier for the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball last fall at Rolling Green Golf Club and Waynesborough Country Club, Dressel’s home course.
   But Dressel and Gillespie, who plays out of St. Davids Golf Club, couldn’t get it going at Jupiter Hills. They posted a 5-over 75 at the Hills Course and a 6-over 76 at the Village Course for an 11-over 151 total.




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