30 players started the tournament and were seeded according to their Golfweek Senior Ranking. The top two seeds, Jim Starnes and Steve Hudson, received byes into the second round. The other 28 played a round of morning matches.
Starnes was knocked out by Gary Robinson, who in the first round beat Jim Hegarty 6&4. Robinson's 7&6 win over Starnes meant that he had to play only 26 holes on the day.
Hudson's stay was not much longer. Mac McGee won by default in his morning match, which meant that he arrived as fresh as Hudson did for their afternoon tilt, and it went 22 holes before McGee took the win.
The defending champion Mike Arnold won his morning match with George Adams, 5&3, but was knocked out in the afternoon by Kevin Macy, 2 up.
The following quarterfinal matches will be played on Sunday:
Gary Robinson v. Kevin Macy
Mark Nickerson v. Scott Smith
Mac McGee v. Michael Wharton-Palmer
Jack Hall v. John Fritz
Super Senior quarterfinal matches:
Gary Kirwan v. Phil McDade
Berger Warner v. Mike Jackson
Rick Kline v. Wyatt Meyer
Evan Long v. Neil Spitalny
In the Legends Division, 16 players started the tournament, and two rounds were played to narrow the field down to the final four.
The #1 seed George Washburn won two matches today to advance to the semifinals.
Legends semifinal matches:
George Washburn v. Walt Martin
Gary Shimmin v. Edward Craig
