On a blustery day where just one player finished with a score under-par, Hatley was able to snag the lead after three holes and never looked back. Hatley had started today’s final round in solo second place, one shot behind leader Jacob Koppenberg of Bellingham, Wash. who finished in second place.
“I’m proud of myself for hanging in there; this was one of those days where you can kind of let things get away from you.”
Hatley and Koppenberg were the only players in the full field of 120 to finish the championship under-par.
This marks the second time in three years that Hatley has won this championship, after winning previously in 2016. Hatley has been named the WSGA Mid-Amateur Player of the Year the past three years (2015-17) and last week qualified for the 2018 U.S. Mid-Amateur. Earlier this year, he tied for sixth in the Mexican Amateur, made it to the quarterfinals of the PNGA Men’s Amateur, and was a member of the three-man WSGA team that won the Morse Cup competition of the 2018 Pacific Coast Amateur, held last month at The Olympic Club in San Francisco.
Koppenberg, a former collegiate standout on the Western Washington University Men’s Golf Team, and current volunteer assistant coach, was the qualifying co-medalist last week for the U.S. Mid-Amateur, and earlier this summer was the medalist in qualifying for the 2018 U.S. Amateur. In July, Koppenberg made it to the quarterfinals of the PNGA Men’s Amateur.
