Trey Marrion from Chesapeake VA wins the 67th Eastern Amateur in a playoff over Robb Kinder, a former All-American from Christopher Newport University. Both players finished at 10-under par 270. Marrion, who will join the University of Illinois golf team in a few weeks, started the day 2 shots behind the leaders and shot 3-under 67 including a final hole birdie. In the playoff both players missed the fairway. Kinder played first from the right rough and his second was just long and left. It kicked hard off the side of the green and into the hazard. Marrion played his second from the left rough to 15 ft and 2 putted for the win after Kinder’s par chip missed. Kinder, playing in the last group had a chance to win outright in regulation but his 9-foot birdie putt slid just by the hole. Kinder and Marrion shared the lead at 11-under thru 11 holes. Kinder bogeyed the 12th and closed with 6 straight pars including an 18-foot par saving putt on the 16th. Marrion bogeyed the 15th and 17th before closing with birdie. UNC-Greensboro’s Branden Boyce who shared the 54-hole lead eagled the 18th to finish 3rd alone. High school junior Smith Summerlin from Raleigh played the 13th through 15th in 4-under to jump into contention at 8-under and shared 4th place with Radford’s Bobby Dudeck. Dudeck missed a long eagle putt on the par-5 18th to join the playoff before settling for par. Michael Vick from NC State (7-under), Oregon’s Tom Jenkins, Jr (6-under), Solomon Petrie from Kentucky (6-under), Grant Lester from Columbia (5-under) and TCU’s Charlie Wylie (5-under) rounded out the top 10.
