North and South Amateur: Constable defeats Simson
PINEHURST, NC (June 30, 2011) – Defending champion Donald Constable defeated the worlds number 1 ranked senior amateur, Paul Simson in very tight match that never went more than one up for either player.
Simson, from Raleigh, NC, kept the match square or in his favor for the first eight holes then he stumbled with a bogey on the 180-yard par-3 ninth hole. Constable, from Minnetonka, MN, birdied the 610-yard par-5 tenth to go one up and held the match at that pace for most of the back-nine .
Simson needed birdie on the historic 18th hole to extend the match and that is exactly what he got. A loss on the 19th hole would give the match to Constable, a man nearly 40 years his junior.
Constable will take on Indiana University senior David Erdy in the quarter-finals.
ABOUT THE
North & South Amateur
The North & South Amateur Championship is the
longest consecutively run amateur tournament in
the
United States. Its past winners list includes names
like
Walter
Travis, Francis Ouimet, Billy Joe Patton, Jack
Nicklaus
and Curtis Strange. The field is made up of invited
players as well as open applications. Two rounds of
stroke
play are followed by five rounds of match play
(32
qualifiers) to determine the Champion. All stroke
& match play rounds are contested on
Pinehurst No. 2.
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