DENVER, CO (July 13, 2011) -- Several CGA champions, including Steve Irwin and Jonathan Marsico, advanced to the quarterfinals of the 111th CGA Match Play Championship with two wins on Wednesday at Bear Creek Golf Club in west Denver.
Irwin, the 2004 Match Play champ, and Marsico, the 2008 Stroke Play winner, will square off in one of the quarterfinals on Thursday. Irwin, the top seed this week, scored two 2 and 1 victories on Wednesday. Marsico won 2 up and 3 and 1, with the latter coming over Andy Dannewitz, who made a hole-in-one in his Wednesday morning victory over eighth-seeded Cameron Brown.
The other quarterfinalists are Derek Fribbs and John Ahern, who will be University of Colorado teammates beginning this fall, Colorado State University golfer Zahkai Brown, Colorado School of Mines’ Jim Knous, Michael Lee of Greeley Country Club and Spencer Sheets, who will play golf for Oral Roberts.
Participants in the final four matches Wednesday had to wait out a weather delay before completing play shortly before sunset.
Both the quarterfinals and semifinals are scheduled for Thursday, with the 36-hole final set for 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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