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Bill Jones Takes Medalist Honors at Atlanta Amateur Match Play Championship
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. (October 22, 2009) – Bill Jones of Covington fired a 4-under par 66 and was named medalist during stroke play qualifying for the 91st annual Atlanta Amateur Match Play Championship, taking place Rivermont Golf and Country Club, October 22-25. Jones leads a group of 31 other qualifiers who advance to match play starting Friday morning.
The defending champion, Dalton’s David Noll Jr., was exempt from qualifying and will be the top seed in the match play bracket.
Jones, who finished his collegiate career at Mercer University this past Spring, carded seven birdies during his round. He carded three on the front nine, including both par-threes (Nos. 4 and 6) and the par-five seventh. A bogey at 448-yard fifth left him posting 33 for the outward nine. Jones opened play on the back side with a birdie but made bogey at number 11. He then birdied three of his next four holes (Nos. 12, 14 and 15). A bogey at the par-3 17th yielded another nine-hole score of 33 and a 66 for the round.
Jones finished two strokes ahead of Woodstock’s Mark Strickland, who captured the Atlanta Amateur Match Play title in 2006. Past champions, Jeff Belk of Marietta (2002) and Rocky Costa of Alpharetta (1997 and 2000) tied for third at 69. Chris Johnson of Brunswick and Lawrenceville’s Zach Estep tied for fifth overall at even-par 70. Kennesaw’s Matt Nagy, a participant in the 2009 U.S. Open, posted a qualifying round of 71 to tie for seventh with Marietta’s Matthew Hayes. Four players – Lilburn’s Jacob Keen, Jorge Cora of Atlanta, Ryan Parnell of Atlanta and Atlanta’s Zachary Sexton – fired 72 and tied for ninth. Among the other players to qualify were former Atlanta Amateur Match Play champion Greg Bradford of Talking Rock (2007) and Bill Bergin of Atlanta, the 1981 Georgia Amateur Champion.
There were six players at 75 for the final five spots in qualifying. Since only five players were present for a playoff, those players automatically qualified.
The first round of match play gets underway at 8:15 a.m. Friday. Winners tee it up again in the afternoon, beginning at approximately 12:30 p.m., for the round of 16. The quarterfinals and semifinals are set to be played on Saturday, with the 18-hole championship match scheduled for Sunday morning.
Entries were open to male amateur golfers who are Georgia residents and members of a GSGA Member Club. Notable former champions include Perry Adair (1916), Charlie Yates (1931), Tommy Barnes (1936), Dan Yates (1942), Gene Dahlbender (1946-47, 1957-59, 1962), Bobby Jones’ son, Robert T. Jones III, (1948), Charles Harrison (1952-54, 1961, 1965, 1967-1969, 1973, 1977), Larry Mize (1979) and Danny Yates (1981-82).
Founded in 1916, the Georgia State Golf Association (GSGA) received its official charter on June 24, 1924. Since that date, the GSGA has grown to one of the largest state amateur golf associations in the country, with over 355 member clubs and 85,000 individual members. With a mission to promote and preserve amateur golf in the state of Georgia, GSGA offers a computerized handicapping service, course rating and measuring, and annually conducts a full schedule of statewide competitions for men and women of all age groups. Other services include a summer-long junior sectional program, award-winning Golf Georgia magazine, membership recognition and rewards programs and a charitable foundation administering two college scholarship programs.
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91st Annual Atlanta Amateur Match Play Championship
Rivermont Golf & Country Club
Johns Creek, Georgia
October 22-25, 2009
Stroke Play Qualifying Results
Rank Name Score To Par
1 Bill Jones, Covington 66 -4
2 Mark Strickland, Woodstock 68 -2
T3 Jeff Belk, Marietta 69 -1
T3 Rocky Costa, Alpharetta 69 -1
T5 Chris Johnson, Brunswick 70 Even
T5 Zach Estep, Lawrenceville 70 Even
T7 Matt Nagy, Kennesaw 71 1
T7 Matthew Hayes, Marietta 71 1
T9 Jacob Keen, Lilburn 72 2
T9 Jorge Cora, Atlanta 72 2
T9 Ryan Parnell, Atlanta 72 2
T9 Zachary Sexton, Atlanta 72 2
T13 Christian Raynor, Kennesaw 73 3
T13 Gary Lindsay, Lawrenceville 73 3
T13 Hap Kaufold, Vidalia 73 3
T13 Michael Motz, Milton 73 3
T13 Robert Dell Jr., Atlanta 73 3
T13 Ryan Wilson, Pooler 73 3
T13 Seth Parmer, Bowdon 73 3
T13 Tevis Upton, Acworth 73 3
T21 Bill Bergin, Atlanta 74 4
T21 Dave Poteet, Duluth 74 4
T21 Franco Castro, Alpharetta 74 4
T21 Greg Bradford, Talking Rock 74 4
T21 Jordan Mitchell, Atlanta 74 4
T21 Todd Kohout, Atlanta 74 4
T27 Adam Cooper, Columbus 75 5
T27 Andrew Saft, Atlanta 75 5
T27 Bob Yarnall, Alpharetta 75 5
T27 Chad Griffith, LaGrange 75 5
T27 Don Marsh, Johns Creek 75 5
Failed to Qualify:
T27 Mike Brown, Atlanta 75 5
T33 Bill Leonard, Kennesaw 76 6
T33 Butch Woodyard, Sandy Springs 76 6
T33 Doug Stiles, Athens 76 6
T33 Mark Burden, Atlanta 76 6
T33 Mark Lyons, Mableton 76 6
T33 Mark Nickerson, Roswell 76 6
T33 Michael Keaveny, Cumming 76 6
T33 Mookie Demoss, Duluth 76 6
T33 Paul Schwarz, Carlton 76 6
T33 Stan Jones, Dacula 76 6
T33 Tom Parker, Suwanee 76 6
T44 Brian Katrek, Mableton 77 7
T44 Garrick Stiles, Statham 77 7
T44 Gordon Gourley, Acworth 77 7
T44 John Belicka, Woodstock 77 7
T44 Justin Cho, Norcross 77 7
T44 Lee Dennis, Comer 77 7
T44 Mel Mendenhall, Marietta 77 7
T44 Morgan Nix, Gainesville 77 7
T44 Patrick Koehler, Marietta 77 7
T44 Tyler Gruca, Alpharetta 77 7
T54 Chad Zorn, Lyons 78 8
T54 Erik Martin, Alpharetta 78 8
T54 Matt McKagen, Powder Springs 78 8
T54 Ryan Cannon, Suwannee 78 8
T54 Tom Price, Marietta 78 8
T59 Austin Trammell, Canton 79 9
T59 Ben Wolfe, Duluth 79 9
T59 Bob Stonikas, Duluth 79 9
T59 Craig B. Williams, Stone Mountain 79 9
T59 Justin Martin, Atlanta 79 9
T59 Matt Johns, Ocilla 79 9
T59 Matt Russell, Dunwoody 79 9
T59 Michael Garretson, Acworth 79 9
T59 Mike Schilling III, Roswell 79 9
T59 Miles Dixon, Athens 79 9
T59 Todd Schmitt, Atlanta 79 9
T59 Troy Thompson, Dallas 79 9
T71 Andrew Malott, Marietta 80 10
T71 Butch Maxey, Pendergrass 80 10
T71 Terry Rush, Buford 80 10
T74 Clint Harris, Atlanta 81 11
T74 Dave Baker, Conyers 81 11
T74 Philipp Dirkx, Atlanta 81 11
T74 Randy Hayes, Flowery Branch 81 11
T74 Tony Avarello, Duluth 81 11
T79 Brian Ferris, Atlanta 82 12
T79 Chris Davis, Atlanta 82 12
T79 Jamie Kishida, Duluth 82 12
T79 Timothy Womack, Alpharetta 82 12
T79 Zach Holcomb, Dunwoody 82 12
T84 Barry Reading, Newnan 83 13
T84 Kevin Sulllivan, Duluth 83 13
T84 Mark Treese, Decatur 83 13
T84 Robert Russo, Alpharetta 83 13
T84 Stephen Davis, Atlanta 83 13
T84 Thomas Reagan, Atlanta 83 13
T90 Dan Wise, Atlanta 84 14
T90 Jeff Kuntz, Atlanta 84 14
T90 Michael Hines, Acworth 84 14
T90 Thomas Meyer, Alpharetta 84 14
T94 Jim Adams, Decatur 85 15
T94 Kavind Puni, Alpharetta 85 15
T94 Michael Toler, Marietta 85 15
T97 Adam Schlappi, Cumming 86 16
T97 Christian Voshall, Atlanta 86 16
T97 Jim Foote, Gainesville 86 16
T97 Josh Stanley, Atlanta 86 16
101 Christopher Lounsbury, Marietta 87 17
102 Erik Dickerson, Kennesaw 91 21
T103 Chris Hall, Kennesaw NC NC
T103 Christoph Koehler, Marietta WD WD
T103 David McCarty, Norcross WD WD
T103 Hector Cora, Atlanta WD WD
T103 Jack Hall, Sea Island NS NS
T103 Jackson Moore, Marietta WD WD
T103 Jim Heard, Roswell WD WD
T103 John Dalton, Gillsville WD WD
T103 Luke Stubblefield, Smyrna WD WD
T103 Michael Leveille, Suwanee WD WD
T103 Neal Quirk, Atlanta WD WD
T103 Robbie Davis, St. Mary's NS NS
T103 Scott Hootselle, Cumming WD WD
T103 Stephen Gray, Atlanta NS NS
T103 Sterling Hale, Atlanta WD WD
T103 Sujit Sharma, Atlanta WD WD
T103 William Reedy, Marietta WD WD
T103 Zach Forbes, Woodstock WD WD
Round of 32 Pairings
Friday, October 23
Matches Starting on Tee: 1
Time Seed Player Seed Player
8:15 AM 1 David Noll Jr., Dalton vs. 32 Chad Griffith, LaGrange
8:24 AM 16 Tevis Upton, Acworth vs. 17 Gary Lindsay, Lawrenceville
8:33 AM 8 Matthew Hayes, Marietta vs. 25 Greg Bradford, Talking Rock
8:42 AM 9 Matt Nagy, Kennesaw vs. 24 Bill Bergin, Atlanta
8:51 AM 4 Rocky Costa, Alpharetta vs. 29 Bob Yarnall, Alpharetta
9:00 AM 13 Jorge Cora, Atlanta vs. 20 Michael Motz, Milton
9:09 AM 5 Jeff Belk, Marietta vs. 28 Andrew Saft, Atlanta
9:18 AM 12 Zachary Sexton, Atlanta vs. 21 Hap Kaufold, Vidalia
Matches Starting on Tee: 10
Time Seed Player Seed Player
8:15 AM 2 Bill Jones, Covington vs. 31 Don Marsh, Johns Creek
8:24 AM 15 Seth Parmer, Bowdon vs. 18 Robert Dell Jr., Atlanta
8:33 AM 7 Zach Estep, Lawrenceville vs. 26 Franco Castro, Alpharetta
8:42 AM 10 Jacob Keen, Lilburn vs. 23 Jordan Mitchell, Atlanta
8:51 AM 3 Mark Strickland, Woodstock vs. 30 Adam Cooper, Columbus
9:00 AM 14 Christian Raynor, Kennesaw vs. 19 Ryan Wilson, Pooler
9:09 AM 6 Chris Johnson, Brunswick vs. 27 Dave Poteet, Duluth
9:18 AM 11 Ryan Parnell, Atlanta vs. 22 Todd Kohout, Atlanta
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