Colorado Match Play: Defending champ Oraee moves on
From the Colorado Golf Association
WESTMINSTER, Colo. (July 9, 2014) -- University of Colorado golfer David Oraee won two matches on Wednesday and advanced to the quarterfinals in his title defense at the 114th CGA Match Play Championship at The Heritage at Westmoor in Westminster.
Oraee, from Colorado National Golf Club, defeated Cody Vance of Raccoon Creek Golf Course 5 and 4 in the round of 32, and Matt Porter of CommonGround Golf Course 3 and 1 in the Sweet 16.
But what could have been a rematch of last year's final was avoided when Cole Cunningham of Valley Country Club edged Parker Edens of Greeley Country Club, 1 up in the round of 16. Edens was a finalist in the Match Play each of the last two years. So Cunningham will be Oraee's quarterfinal opponent, not Edens.
Also ousted in a day of upsets Wednesday were both of Monday's stroke-play co-medalists -- Steven Kupcho of CommonGround Golf Course and Dylan Mitchell of Lakewood Country Club -- who both fell in the round of 32.
In fact, Oraee (pictured) is the only one of the top 14 seeds to make the quarterfinals.
Joining Oraee and Cunningham in the quarterfinals are Jacob Allenback of Walking Stick Golf Course, Gus Lundquist of Colorado Golf Club, Colin Prater of the Broadmoor Golf Club, Cody Kent of the Country Club at Castle Pines, Zach Tripp of Foothills Golf Course and Jeffrey Gravina of Pinehurst Country Club
In the round of 32 matchup of brothers from Pueblo, Allenback needed 22 holes to defeat younger brother Justin.
Another two rounds of matches will be played on Thursday, leaving two players for 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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