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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.

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. 

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!

We are receiving applications daily and expect to receive close to 250. We will begin notifying accepted players beginning May 15th. All players will be notified of status by June 9th and we will invite a maximum 30 players to the Tuesday qualifier. A waiting list will also be established at that point.

With record entries in 2023 we’re looking forward to a great field again for 2024. Be sure to check back here for open applications in March, we’ll see you there!

Kyle Haas two putted the par-5 18^th hole from just inside 30ft for birdie and a one shot victory over Brandon Robison of the University of Utah and Belmont’s Jack Schoenberger. 

The Eastern Amateur was the last tournament of the summer for Kyle Haas before he heads to Wake Forest in two weeks to start his freshman year as a member of the Demon Deacon golf team where he will play for his father Jerry.  Haas was the only player to post four rounds under par.  The final round saw gusty wind and firmer greens after three days of steady breeze and temperatures in the mid-90s.

Haas bogeyed the 1^st and 4^th holes before making back-to-back birdies on 7 & 8 to turn in even par.  He trailed Radford’s Bryce Corbett by two shots headed to the back nine.  Corbett made a double bogey on the 10^th and Haas was tied for the lead with Schoenberger and Corbett at 7-under par.  Haas hit driver on the middle of the green on the drivable par-4 13^th and two putted to get to 8-under.   Schoenberger bogeyed 14 and 15 and Corbett made bogeys on the 12^th and 14^th and Haas led by two with three to play.  A Haas bogey on 16 cut the lead to one over Schoenberger.  Robison made a late charge with a birdie on 17 from 15 feet to get to 5-under and two back.  Robison’s tee shot found the left rough on 18 but he managed to get to the front fringe on the par-5.  Haas found the green from 240 yards and had a downhill eagle putt.  Robison then produced the shot of the tournament when he rolled in his eagle putt from 81 feet to get to 7-under and force Haas to two putt.  Haas rolled the first putt down the hill to about three feet and made the birdie to post 8-under.  Schoenberger, playing in the final group also found the green and had the same downhill eagle putt as Haas.  He narrowly missed and tapped in to share 2^nd place with Robison.  Sihan Sandhu, a junior golfer from Ashburn, VA shared 4^th place with 3^rd round leader Bryce Corbett.  Nathan Piatt, also of Radford, was 6^th alone at 4-under par.  Virginia Tech’s Charlie Hanson finished another shot back in 7^th place at 3-under for his 3^rd consecutive top 10 finish in the Eastern Amateur.  Former Nansemond-Suffolk and Temple golfer Trey Wren was 8th at 2-under, Jennings Glenn from Elon finished 9^th another shot back.  Graham Chase of Temple, J.F. Aber from Wittenburg University, LSU’s Alex Price and Adam Horton from Chesapeake rounded out the top 10 at even-par.