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Bai Continues his Summer of Success with Palmetto Am Win
05 Aug 2017
by Art Stricklin of AmateurGolf.com

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Zhengkai "Bobby" Bai After His Palmetto Am Win

AIKEN, South Carolina (August 5, 2017) -- Zhengkai (Bobby) Bai summer of amateur golfing success rolled on nicely as he won the 46th annual Palmetto Amateur Saturday with a 69-268 total at historic Palmetto Country Club for a five-shot victory over Henry Shimp.

Bai, a rising sophomore at UCF qualified for match play at the British Amateur earlier this summer and was named American Athletic Conference freshman of the year and all conference this spring at UCF.

“I had a good day today and played a pretty good week. It’s exciting to win a prestigious tournament against a lot of good players,” he said.

Bai, who had to Monday qualify to even get into the field this week, seized control of the tournament with a second round 64 and took a six-shot lead going to the final day.

Despite going out in two over 36 Saturday, he never lost the lead and birdied three holes on the back nine to win going away.

“The more I played the course, the better I got to know it,” Bai said. “I gained confidence from the way I played.”

Shimp, a sophomore golfer at Stanford University, shot the low round of the final day to finish at 65-273 with birdies on three of the last five holes.

Florida State golfer Jonathan Keppler was alone in third place at 69-277.

Results:
1ChinaBobby BaiChina70066-64-69-69=268
2NCHenry ShimpCharlotte, NC50069-66-73-65=273
3GAJonathan KepplerMarietta, GA40069-73-66-69=277
T4NCArcher PriceGastonia, NC40066-72-71-69=278
T4SCCaleb ProveauxLexington, SC40067-74-67-70=278

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