WESTMINSTER, Colo. (July 7, 2014) -- The 64-man match-play field was set Monday for the oldest continuously held statewide golf tournament in Colorado.
With defending champion David Oraee of Colorado National Golf Club automatically earning the No. 1 seed, Steven Kupcho of CommonGround Golf Course and Dylan Mitchell of Lakewood Country Club shared medalist honors in Monday's stroke-play qualifying round for the 114th CGA Match Play Championship at Heritage at Westmoor in Westminster.
Oraee, a University of Colorado golfer, shot a 2-over-par 74 Monday but he had already been guaranteed the top seed in the match play bracket thanks to his victory last year.
Kupcho, the University of Northern Colorado golfer who won the 2012 CGA Stroke Play Championship, and Mitchell, who plays for CU-Colorado Springs, posted the best rounds on Monday, 3-under-par 69s. Kupcho (pictured above) made five birdies and two bogeys on the day, while Mitchell carded four birdies and a bogey.
The only other players to break par Monday were Minkyu Jeon of Raccoon Creek Golf Course Justin Allenback of Elmwood Golf Course, who each fired 71.
Former Colorado State University golfer Parker Edens, runner-up in the Match Play each of the last two years, shot a 73 on Monday. Steve Irwin of Lakewood Country, the 2004 Match Play champ, posted a 75.
Father and son competitors Ray and Jimmy Makloski also easily made match play with scores of 76 and 77, respectively.
Round-of-64 matches will take place on Tuesday. The 36-hole final will be contested on Friday.
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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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