McGatha advances
- Updated: September 3, 2014
Nick Pollard won the final two holes on the front nine to cut his deficit in half, but couldn’t overcome the early lead built by Jeremy McGatha (cover photo).
No. 3 seed wins four of the first five holes coming out of a weather delay and defeats Nick Pollard
By East Alabama Sports Today
Jeremy McGatha won four of the first five holes coming out of a weather delay and defeated Nick Pollard 5 & 4 Wednesday in the Calhoun County Match Play Championship.
The No. 3 seed now plays No. 11 Daniel Black in the second round.
“It was nothing spectacular; neither one of us played great great,” McGatha said. “Match play is a different format. Sometimes you’ve got to do what it takes to get by.”
The players halved the first hole then were chased into the cart barn by weather for 45 minutes. When they returned to the course, McGatha won 2, 3, 4 and 6 with pars to take control of the match. Pollard cut his deficit in half with birdies at 8 and 9, but McGatha eventually closed it out with a birdie on 14.
While McGatha and Pollard waited out the weather, Adrian Geeting and Andrew Brooks gave up the ghost. They will play the final match of the first round Thursday.
Calhoun County Match Play Championship
First-round matches
Buddy Moore Bracket
No. 1 Gary Wigington def. No. 16 Jeff Borrelli, 6 & 5
No. 8 Matt Rogers def. No. 9 Scott Martin, 2 & 1
No. 13 Billy Thompson def. No. 4 Grant Hockman, 2 & 1
No. 5 Jaylon Ellison def. No. 12 Lance Evans, 2 & 1
Chris Banister Bracket
No. 15 Clay Calkins def. No. 2 Ty Cole, walkover
No. 7 Adrian Geeting vs. No. 10 Andrew Brooks, Thursday
No. 3 Jeremy McGatha def. No. 14 Nick Pollard, 5 & 4
No. 11 Daniel Black def. No. 6 Ott Chandler, 19 holes
Second-round matches
Wigington vs. Rogers
Thompson vs. Ellison
Calkins vs. Geeting-Brooks winner
McGatha vs. Black
SCOREBOARD WATCHING: The team of Chris Hubbard, Jerry Cobb, Ben Padgett, Charles Padgett and Dameon Goode shot 15-under-par 57 and won a three-team scorecard playoff with a birdie on No. 14 to win the Labor Day Scramble at Pine Hill CC.
The team of Trevor Lane, Ricky Hurst, David Lane, Christine Pearson and Tucker Pearson finished second with a par on 14. The team of Dennis Austin, Josh Reynolds, Blake Studdard, Steve Arnold and Bart Smith fell out of the playoff on 17.
Dennis Reaves and Doug Bragg shot 11-under 61 and won the monthly Indian Oaks Senior Scramble. They won by four shots over club pro Ron McClellan and Vernon Marcoullier.
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