Josh Greer – file photo USGA
Two of the three Australians who advanced to the match play phase of the Amateur (British) Championship at the Hillside Golf Club in Southport have moved through to the third round of the knockout phase following victories this morning.
That’s the good news, the bad news however is that both players will face off in round three, thus allowing only one Australian to remain in the event after tomorrow’s third round
21 year old West Australian Greer, who qualified in 5th place in the 36 hole strokeplay stages of the event, was up against Italian Matteo Cristoni today and accounted for him 2&1 while Victorian, Jasper Stubbs, just crept home against Japan’s Minato Oshima by a narrow one hole margin.
Greer has already qualified for the PGA Tour of Australasia having successfully negotiated his way through Tour School for next season so this last few weeks of his amateur career appear to be going well.
Stubbs is the current New Zealand Amateur Champion having won in Dunedin last November.
Gold Coast youngster Billy Dowling was up against Frenchman Clemente Charmasson but agonisingly lost at the 4th extra hole in their 18 hole encounter.
Dowling, who qualified in 40th place was forced to play an eliminator against Max Kristoffer of Denmark and did well to advance to the main field before being beaten today.
The surprise amongst the many Australians in the field was that former NSW Open and Asia Pacific Amateur Champion Harrison Crowe missed out on a place in the match play phase by one shot.
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