ATLANTA, Georgia (August 17, 2014) -- Midway through their 36-hole final, Gunn Yang of Korea and San Diego State has a narrow 1- up lead over Correy Conners of Canada. Yang was 2-up through 17 holes, but lost the 18th to a birdie. Both players are over par on the day -- Yang birdied the 512-yard par 4 second hole and the 426 yard 9th.
Conners birdied all three of the par 5s, all three are over 550 yards.
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SATURDAY'S SEMI-FINAL STORY
Corey Conners, 22, of Canada, and Gunn Yang, 20, of Korea, each won their semifinal- round matches to advance to Sunday’s 36- hole championship match of the 2014 U.S. Amateur Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club’s 7,167-yard, par-71 Highlands Course.
Conners, who also reached the semifinals in 2013, beat University of Virginia All-American Denny McCarthy, 21, of Rockville, Md., 1 up. He is Canada’s first U.S. Amateur finalist since Gary Cowan won the title for the second time in 1971.
“It feels pretty good to have made it a little bit further than last year,” said the recent Kent State graduate, who lost to eventual champion Matt Fitzpatrick in the 2013 semifinals. “It was a lot of fun last year and I learned a lot. But yeah, I’m just really excited about this year. I am playing some nice golf and I am really pumped up for tomorrow to have some fun and try and finish it off.”
Yang, playing in his first U.S. Amateur, defeated Pepperdine University junior Frederick Wedel, 19, of The Woodlands, Texas, in 19 holes.
-Story by Pete Kowalski, photo courtesy of the USGA