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see also: Preston Summerhays, View results for Sahalee Players Championship, Sahalee Country Club
Summerhays leads by two shots in his title defense while Arizona State leads the team competition by five shots
After winning the 2023 individual competition and earning a spot in the Fortinet Championship, Preston Summerhays of Arizona State is looking to get the job done once again.
Summerhays leads the 2024 Sahalee Players Championship at Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Wash., by two shots over the field with 18 holes remaining.
The two-time All-American carded rounds of 71-68 to get to 5-under and lead by two shots heading into the final round.
Summerhays is currently ranked No. 9 in the Golfweek/AmateurGolf.com World Rankings and recently finished T2 at the European Amateur and made the match-play portion of the U.S. Amateur.
2024 U.S. Amateur champion and Summerhays teammate at Arizona State Jose Luis Ballester is T2 at 3-under, along with Aiden Krafft of Oregon, Akshay Anand of Northwestern, and William Walsh of Pepperdine.
In addition to winning the U.S. Amateur in August, he made the match play portion in the British Amateur and T8 at the European Amateur. He is currently ranked No. 17 in the Golfweek/AmateurGolf.com World Rankings.
Griffin Rhoads of Arizona and Scott Roden are T6 at 2-under. Eight golfers are T8 at 1-under, and six golfers are T16 at even par.
In the team standings, Summerhays and Ballester have led Arizona State to the 36-hole team score lead at 10-under after carding team scores of 282-284 to lead by six shots.
Pepperdine is in second place at 5-under and Oklahoma State is in third place at even par.
| Place | Player | Location | Pts | Scores |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Albuquerque, NM | 800 | 71-70-71=212 | |
| T2 | , Spain | 500 | 69-72-72=213 | |
| T2 | Scottsdale, AZ | 500 | 71-68-74=213 | |
| T4 | , Germany | 400 | 76-68-70=214 | |
| T4 | Orlando, FL | 400 | 73-70-71=214 |
Inaugurated in 1992, the Sahalee Players Championship (SPC) was a major summer amateur event until 2019 when it was discontinued. In 2023, it was converted into a college event hosting the top men's teams in the country. Team (best four scores out of...
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