It’s been quite the summer for Baylor players. On Saturday, Cooper Dossey became the latest Bear to win a major amateur tournament when he defeated Noah Norton for the North & South Amateur title.

Last week, Dossey’s teammate Garrett May won the Northeast Amateur. The week before that? Ryan Grider won the Texas Amateur.

Now it’s Dossey’s turn. The North & South is not only a major feather in the cap of Dossey, who will be a senior at Baylor this fall, but it potentially bodes well for another event this summer. The long-running North & South, played at Pinehurst No. 2 (but with a stroke-play round at No. 4 included this week), is like a preview for the U.S. Amateur. That tournament, the pinnacle of the amateur summer, will be played in August. Dossey still must qualify in.

For now, the North & South title is a major milestone.

“It’s number one,” said Dossey, when asked about where the North & South title ranks among his career accomplishments. “I haven’t really won outside of college golf on my own. I’ve actually only made two cuts before this amateur tournament, so I had no expectations, but it was a fun week, a special week.”

On a double-round Saturday, Dossey first defeated Blake Taylor, 2 and 1, in the semifinals, then caught Georgia Tech’s Noah Norton in the final match. Dossey won four of the first eight holes, and eventually prevailed, 5 and 4.

“He’s a great player, and I didn’t want to give him any holes,” said Dossey, whose younger brother Luke was on his bag for the second-straight day. “I didn’t make a bogey all day. I just hit it well in the middle of the greens, putted great; it was a really good round.”

Quotes from Pinehurst Resort used in this article

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