Jake Albert is a wire-to-wire winner in the 68th Eastern Amateur closing with a final round 1-over 71 in gusty conditions. Albert took a 4-shot lead into the final round but stumbled at the start when his tee shot found the water on the 1st hole. He made double bogey and followed with a bogey on the 2nd and his lead was down to 2. The turning point in the round probably came on the 4th hole. After clipping a tree off the tee, he left himself over 300 yards for his second on the 473-yard par-4. A long iron left about 80 yards, and he converted a 15-foot par putt to preserve a 2-shot lead. Solomon Petrie, a Toledo University junior wasn’t able to mount a charge playing the first 12 holes without a birdie. Albert settled after the 4th and converted birdies at the 6th and the 8th. On the 8th his 2nd shot went just long, and he rolled in a 20 ft putt from off the green to stretch his lead to six shots over Petrie and University of Louisville sophomore Clay Pendergrass. Albert, who will head to Auburn next week to start his college career cruised the rest of the way playing the last 10 holes even par. Petrie and Pendergrass shared 2nd place at 14-under. Elon’s Landon Durham was a shot back in 4th and Campbell Skelly of Providence University was 5th after posting the day’s low round at 4-under 66. Scoring conditions were much tougher in the 4th round which saw the scoring average 3 1/2 shots higher than the previous day.
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The field is set for the 68th Eastern Amateur
The field for the 68th Eastern Amateur is set and posted. A few more invitations to the qualifier are going out now. A waiting list has been established, and we will notify those who are at the top of the list. Withdrawals after July 25th will be added to the spots available in the qualifier. An information sheet and schedule of events will be posted to the website shortly. We look forward to seeing you in a few weeks!
2025 Application
The application for the 68th Eastern Amateur will be available in early March. Please check back!
Trey Marrion wins 67th Eastern Am in a playoff
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.
Kentucky’s Gee leads after 63
The 1st round of the 67th Eastern Amateur is complete and Oakley Gee, a redshirt sophomore at the University of Kentucky birdied his last hole to take a one-shot lead at 7-under 63. Gee made 8 birdies against a single bogey. He started quick with birdies on his first 3 holes and turned in 4-under. Three more birdies on 12 thru 14 got him to 7-under through 14 before his only dropped shot on 15. Robb Kinder, former Division III All-American from Christopher Newport is a shot back at 64 that included 7 birdies. Six golfers are tied at 4-under including Trey Marrion from Chesapeake (Illinois commit), David Stanford from Virginia Tech, North Carolina State’s Cade McLaughlin, Bucknell golfer Andres Barraza, UNC Greensboro’s Branden Boyce and Grant Lester from Columbia.
Application Period Concluded
Acceptance emails have been sent for The 67th Eastern Amateur. We have received nearly 230 applications to date. Acceptances should be confirmed by the payment deadline of June 23rd. We have established a waitlist for those not offered acceptance during the first round of invitations and we will notify those at the top of the waitlist after June 23rd. As spots become available, we will begin offering them to those on the waitlist.
In addition, we will send invitations to those who indicated interest in our Tuesday July 23rd qualifier. There will be a max of 30 players in the qualifier with 4 guaranteed spots and we will fill WDs after July 19th with additional spots in the qualifier.
We look forward to hosting you next month!
