Bracket holds mostly to form at Inaugural Oregon Four-Ball
The Inaugural Oregon Four-Ball is being held at Eagle Crest Resort
(OGA Photo)
EAGLE CREST, OR (August 28, 2016) -- The match play
portion of the Inaugural Oregon Amateur Four-Ball
began for all three divisions on a toasty Sunday at Eagle
Crest Resort’s Ridge Course. Teams, seeded after
Saturday’s stroke play qualifying, faced off in two-on-
two matches with the winners advancing to the next
round and the losers going home.
In the Open Division, the medalist squad of Jim
Dunlap (Beaverton, Ore.) and Jay Poletiek (Portland,
Ore.) had a first round bye. The second seeded team of
Concordia University players Ryan Melnychuk (Grants
Pass, Ore.) and Tanner Huddleston (Woodland, Wash.)
was dominant in the opening match, recording a 7&6
romp over the thirty-first seeded team of Brandon
Schmidt (Clackamas, Ore.) and Chris O’Hern (Hubbard,
Ore.). Local players Ron Seals (Bend, Ore.) and James
Chrisman (Bend, Ore.), the twentieth seeded team,
earned a one-up victory in one of the closest matches of
the day over the thirteenth seeded team of Matt Doud
(West Linn, Ore.) and Michael Hoopes (Beaverton,
Ore.).
The top three seeds in the Women’s Division earned
byes, and so the quarterfinal match between the team
of Debbie Friede (Washougal, Wash.) and Lisa Smego
(Olympia, Wash.) and the team of Rachelle Ryan (Bend,
Ore.) and Sandy Cameron (Redmond, Ore.) was the
only women’s match of the day. Friede and Wright
triumphed 2&1. The four remaining women’s teams will
all play their semifinal matches tomorrow.
The Senior Division featured a series of blowouts in
its opening round matches. Five out of the eight
matches in the division needed fourteen holes or less to
determine a winning side. The medalist duo of Charley
Griswold (Bend, Ore.) and Don Orrell (Bend, Ore.)
breezed past the sixteenth seeded team of Roland Wolfe
(Redmond, Ore.) and Dave Miller (Redmond, Ore.),
winning 5&4. The second seeded team of David Lydell
(Beaverton, Ore.) and Mark Bowler (Portland, Ore.) also
earned an easy victory, posting a 4&3 win over the
fifteenth seeded pair of Kurt (Portland, Ore.) and Kevin
(Beaverton, Ore.) Hiersche.
Match play continues tomorrow for each division,
with the first matches teeing off at 7:30 a.m. PST.
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ABOUT THE Oregon Four-Ball
18-hole stroke-play qualifying round followed by low
32
match play for Men and low 16 match play for
Women
and Senior Men (ages 50 and over). There is a
consolation flight after the first round of matches. All
contestants must be members in good standing of
an
OGA Member Club.
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