Josh Seiple, runner-up in last year’s CGA Match Play, isn’t competing in the 2017 event this week, but the Castle Rock resident is making the most of the tournament he decided to enter instead.
The 2017 U.S. Open Sectional qualifier not only made match play in the 122nd British Amateur, but he won his first match on Wednesday to advance to the round of 32 at Royal St. George’s in Sandwich, England.
Seiple, who plays his college golf at the University of Mississippi, tied for 23rd in the stroke-play portion of the championship, shooting rounds of 67-72 for a 3-under-par 139 total.
Then in the round of 64, he defeated Englishman Matthew Jordan, 2 and 1. In the round of 32, Seiple will face another English golfer, Harry Ellis, who posted the third-best stroke-play total (134).
An American hasn’t won the British Amateur since 2007, when Drew Weaver claimed the title.
“I came here to compete and to try to hold the trophy at the end of the week,” Seiple told Golfweek.
To follow match-play results from the British Amateur, CLICK HERE.
For a Golfweek story centered around Seiple from the British Am, CLICK HERE.
