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Irwin, Most Top Seeds Win in CGA Match Play
DENVER, COL. (July 12, 2011) — Eight of the top 10 seeds, including No. 1 Steve Irwin of Lakewood Country Club, won their first-round matches Tuesday in the 111th CGA Match Play Championship at Bear Creek Golf Club in west Denver.

Irwin, the 2004 Match Play champion who competed in the U.S. Open last month, defeated Jack Cummings of Omni Interlocken Golf Club 7 and 6 in the round of 64. University of Colorado golfer Derek Fribbs also advanced easily, 4 and 3 over David Harris of Eagle Vail Golf Club.

However, the third and seventh seeds were ousted Tuesday. Spencer Sheets of Glenmoor Country Club, who played in the 2010 U.S. Junior Amateur, defeated No. 3 Jim Doidge of Pueblo Country Club 2 and 1. And Gus Lundquist of The Club at Pradera beat No. 7 Andy Moore of the Olde Course at Loveland 4 and 3.

Two rounds of matches will be played both Wednesday and Thursday to set up Friday’s 36-hole final.

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ABOUT THE Colorado Match Play

The CGA Match Play Championship will be played using the PGA TOUR style match play Pod Play system at gross scoring. This means that any player who qualifies for the championship will be guaranteed at least three (3) matches in the championship at CommonGround Golf Course. After each player is ranked (see below), all players will be distributed into their pod with three (3) other players. This will yield 16 pods of four (4) players. Each player will play all three other players in their pod (see schedule below). The winner of each pod will advance to the Round of 16 and a single elimination knockout round will be played at CommonGround Golf Course. The top 8 players will advance to complete the championship at Colorado Golf Club in a single elimination bracket.

Player Seeding: All 64 players will be ranked 1 – 64. The defending champion will be ranked #1. Exempt players will be ranked next based on their 2020 CGA Player of the Year points standings. The rest of the field of 64 will be made from qualifying players that came from an off-site qualifier. Qualifying players will be ranked in order of their qualifying score at their given site.

Pod Assignments/Seeding: The pods will follow the PGA TOUR style of randomized drawing. Once players have been seeded 1 - 64, players will be drawn at random so that each pod will consist of a player ranked 1 - 16 (Player 1), 17 - 32 (Player 2), 33 - 48 (Player 3) and 49 - 64 (Player 4).

Pod Play Scoring: There will be no extra holes during the pod play portion of matches. Scoring during pod play will be as follows: Match Won – 1 point | Match Tied – ½ point | Match Lost – 0 Points.

Note: If there is a tie for the pod winner, a sudden death playoff will determine the person advancing from that pod.

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