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NBC Sports
13 hours ago
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- NBC Sports
In battle of tour pros' sons, Gutschewski beats Kuchar for Western Junior title
Trevor Gutschewski proved Thursday that winning golf is never that far away. Gutschewski, the incoming Florida freshman and son of tour pro Scott Gutschewski, had mostly struggled since capturing the U.S. Junior Amateur last July. But fresh off a missed cut at the U.S. Open at Oakmont, Gutschewski got back to his victorious ways with a one-shot win over another son of a PGA Tour veteran, Cameron Kuchar, Matt Kuchar's oldest. With three birdies in his last six holes at the Harvester Club in Rhodes, Iowa, Gutschewski carded a closing 2-under 70 to finish at 7 under. Kuchar, who is committed to TCU for 2026, joined Gutschewski in playing his back nine in 2 under, though a second-round 74 proved too costly after his leading 67 after the first round. Gutschewski beat recent Sunnehanna Amateur winner Tyler Watts in last summer's U.S. Junior final, but he followed with a missed cut at the Korn Ferry Tour's Pinnacle Bank Championship, T-262 at the U.S. Amateur, T-55 at the AJGA Junior Players, T-13 at Nebraska Open and T-24 at the Jones Cup Junior to close the year. Then last March he beat only four players at the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley. He followed with a T-71 at the Terra Cotta Invitational and then posted back-to-back 80s last week at Oakmont. He now joins a list of past Western Junior champions that dates to 1914 and includes Bobby Clampett (1978), Willie Wood (1979), Jim Furyk (1987), Trip Kuehne (1991), Hunter Mahan (1999), Rickie Fowler (2005), Patrick Rodgers (2010), Collin Morikawa (2013) and Kevin Yu (2015).
Yahoo
5 days ago
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- Yahoo
Championship Golf Network to livestream portions of final two rounds
Championship Golf Network (CGN) Network will livestream the Sunnehanna Amateur Tournament for Champions via YouTube Friday and Saturday during portions of the third and fourth rounds, respectively. 'The Sunnehanna Amateur is more than a tournament. It's a proving ground for the game's future elite,' CGN Vice President Douglas Rios Ceballos said Wednesday. Advertisement 'CGN is proud to deliver on-site coverage of one of the most historic and talent-rich events in amateur golf, bringing fans closer to the action from Sunnehanna Country Club in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.' Rios Ceballos and camera operator Beau Atwood spent much of Wednesday afternoon setting up a makeshift studio in the President's Room on the second floor of Sunnehanna Country Club. CGN will stream the Amateur from 3 to 6 p.m. Friday at the 18th green. On Saturday, the network will cover the final group from No. 8 through the final hole. On-air coverage will be provided by Dave Marr, the voice of the Champions Tour on the Golf Channel for 17 years. Advertisement In addition to the on-site stream, CGN will provide real-time updates via X and Instagram as well as interviews and features on emerging amateur standouts. Leaderboard graphics and post-round recaps will be included. 'The Sunnehanna Amateur Committee felt working with CGN and streaming two days of the tournament was an important step in the tournament's evolution,' said John Yerger, Sunnehanna Amateur co-chairman. 'While great for the tournament and our players, it is also a way to highlight Sunnehanna Country Club and our community, which has been incredibly supportive for 84 years. 'Collectively, we all take pride in hosting the Sunnehanna Amateur. 'We want people across the country and internationally to watch the best players in amateur golf and see for themselves what makes our tournament and community special.' Advertisement Mountain Cats milestone: Pitt-Johnstown rising sophomore Lucas Smith, of Lynden, Ontario, tied for first place in the Sunnehanna Amateur qualifier held Sunday and Monday. Smith, whose 3-under 67 matched qualifier co-leader Zachary Radtke of Dublin, Ohio, was among six players who advanced to the 84th Sunnehanna Amateur. According to Mountain Cats golf coach Cody Trabert, Smith made history as the first active or alumni player in Pitt-Johnstown history to qualify for the Sunnehanna Amateur. He shot a 4-over-par 74 in Wednesday's opening round. 'Lucas is coming off an impressive freshman season where he garnered PSAC freshman player of the year and also second team all-conference honors,' Trabert said in an email. Advertisement 'He set a Pitt-Johnstown record for having the lowest freshman scoring average in program history and tied for fifth place individually at the PSAC championships in the fall.' Smith played at Ancaster High School in Ontario before joining the Pitt-Johnstown program. In Wednesday's first round, Smith had a challenging start, but recovered to shoot a respectable 74. He made bogey on No. 2 and had a double bogey on No. 3 before closing the front nine with another bogey to make the turn at 4-over 39. On the back nine, Smith made birdies on 11 and 13, but had two more bogeys on 14 and 17. Advancing through the 105-player Sunnehanna qualifier, which was extended a day due to wet weather, were Smith and Radtke as co-medalists; and a four-way tie for third place among Tyler Sabo, of Ashland, Ohio; Adam Horn, of Cincinnati; Ashton McArthur, of Rexburg, Indiana; and Areen Aggarwal, of Columbia, Missouri. Mike Mastovich is a sports reporter and columnist for The Tribune-Democrat. He can be reached at 814-532-5083. Follow him on Twitter @Masty81.
Yahoo
5 days ago
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- Yahoo
Tyler Watts, 17, becomes youngest winner of Sunnehanna Amateur with record-breaking score
Saturday was the conclusion of the 84th Sunnehanna Amateur, and never in the event's history has there been a younger winner than Tyler Watts. The 17-year-old punctuated the biggest win of his career with a closing 6-under 64 to win by four shots at Sunnehanna Country Club in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, about an hour and a half from the site of this week's U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club. Watts fired consecutive 64s in the third and final round, and the 2026 Tennessee commit beat Boise State's Cole Rueck by four shots to win the first event of the Elite Amateur Golf Series. Advertisement Watts, who's ranked sixth in the AJGA rankings, carded five straight birdies on Nos. 4-8 to turn in 30 during the final round. He added a pair of birdies on the back nine, and one lone blemish on the card didn't change the result. His 19-under 261 mark is the lowest 72-hole score in the history of the Sunnehanna Amateur. "This is my first year here, and it's an honor to be able to walk away with the trophy," Watts told Ben Adelberg with The Back of the Range. "I just know after this week that there's a lot of history behind this tournament, and it's a true honor to win." Earlier this year, Watts finished T-6 in the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley and then T-5 at the Team TaylorMade Invitational earlier this month. Last year, he made the final of the U.S. Junior Amateur, falling 4 and 3 to soon-to-be Florida freshman Trevor Gutschewski, who played in the U.S. Open this week thanks to his win. Advertisement The Sunnehanna Amateur is the first of seven events in the Elite Amateur Golf Series, which features the top amateur events of the summer, concluding at the Western Amateur. Past Sunnehanna champions include Collin Morikawa, Rickie Fowler, Webb Simpson, Lucas Glover and more. The next event in the Elite Amateur Golf Series is the Northeast Amateur, which begins Wednesday, June 18 at Wannamoisett Country Club in Rhode Island. This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Sunnehanna Amateur 2025: Tyler Watts sets scoring record with win
USA Today
5 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Tyler Watts, 17, becomes youngest winner of Sunnehanna Amateur with record-breaking score
Tyler Watts, 17, becomes youngest winner of Sunnehanna Amateur with record-breaking score Saturday was the conclusion of the 84th Sunnehanna Amateur, and never in the event's history has there been a younger winner than Tyler Watts. The 17-year-old punctuated the biggest win of his career with a closing 6-under 64 to win by four shots at Sunnehanna Country Club in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, about an hour and a half from the site of this week's U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club. Watts fired consecutive 64s in the third and final round, and the 2026 Tennessee commit beat Boise State's Cole Rueck by four shots to win the first event of the Elite Amateur Golf Series. Watts, who's ranked sixth in the AJGA rankings, carded five straight birdies on Nos. 4-8 to turn in 30 during the final round. He added a pair of birdies on the back nine, and one lone blemish on the card didn't change the result. His 19-under 261 mark is the lowest 72-hole score in the history of the Sunnehanna Amateur. "This is my first year here, and it's an honor to be able to walk away with the trophy," Watts told Ben Adelberg with The Back of the Range. "I just know after this week that there's a lot of history behind this tournament, and it's a true honor to win." Earlier this year, Watts finished T-6 in the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley and then T-5 at the Team TaylorMade Invitational earlier this month. Last year, he made the final of the U.S. Junior Amateur, falling 4 and 3 to soon-to-be Florida freshman Trevor Gutschewski, who played in the U.S. Open this week thanks to his win. The Sunnehanna Amateur is the first of seven events in the Elite Amateur Golf Series, which features the top amateur events of the summer, concluding at the Western Amateur. Past Sunnehanna champions include Collin Morikawa, Rickie Fowler, Webb Simpson, Lucas Glover and more. The next event in the Elite Amateur Golf Series is the Northeast Amateur, which begins Wednesday, June 18 at Wannamoisett Country Club in Rhode Island.
Yahoo
6 days ago
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- Yahoo
Former Golf Channel analyst Dave Marr provides voice of Sunnehanna Amateur livestream
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Dave Marr III stood amid a large television monitor, multiple laptops and other high-tech gadgets in a makeshift digital production room at Sunnehanna Country Club in Westmont. The respected former Golf Channel analyst watched as a group of eight young men and women maneuvered tripods and cameras, prepped a drone and reviewed the game plan for a livestream during the third round of the 84th Sunnehanna Amateur Tournament for Champions. Advertisement Marr smiled as the group buzzed around the room at a sometimes hectic pace Friday afternoon. The activity took him back to 1983 during another big golf tournament in western Pennsylvania. 'It's interesting to me because 42 years ago, I was working with ABC Sports at Oakmont for the U.S. Open,' said Marr, who will provide Championship Golf Network livestream, insight and commentary at Sunnehanna. 'They had three different mobile units, millions of dollars of technical equipment, different crews to do producing of the front nine and back nine, different broadcast teams. My dad was on the broadcast team and I was on the production team.' CGN will livestream portions of the final two rounds, adding another layer to the Sunnehanna Amateur's digital imprint. Advertisement The CGN team spent the past few days assembling a control room. The crew covered the course through two rounds, collecting player interviews, behind-the-scenes content and producing leaderboard graphics and recaps. 'We've got a group of golf-loving guys and gals coming together and doing what we did 42 years ago,' Marr said of the similarities between 1983 and 2025. 'It looks like it's out of the back of a van with unbelievably high-tech equipment. 'That is going to allow this – one of the most important amateur events in the game anywhere, not just this country – to be broadcasted and enjoyed by people all over the world,' Marr said. Advertisement Marr spent 17 years at the Golf Channel, filling roles such as tower announcer, interviewer and play-by-play host for the network's PGA Tour Champions coverage from 2000-17. He also hosted PGA Tour Champions Learning Center, a weekly 30-minute series. A native New Yorker who now resides in Florida, Marr is the son of the late Dave Marr, who won the 1965 PGA Championship at Laurel Valley Golf Club in Ligonier. Dave Marr III's father also was a respected broadcaster. 'My perspective on Sunnehanna has changed since I got here,' Marr said. 'I went to school at Bucknell University right here in central Pa., so I always knew what Sunnehanna was all about. 'My dad was pals with Jay Sigel,' Marr said of the former three-time Sunnehanna champion who died in April. 'Jay was always nice to me and always talked highly about Sunnehanna.' Advertisement This year's Sunnehanna Amateur is dedicated to Sigel's memory. 'Many of my friends who played amateur golf highly competitively, this event, the U.S. Amateur, the North and South, the Western, those are the tournaments they all wanted to win, all the time,' Marr said. 'My dad played professional golf from an early age so he never got a chance to play, but he always missed coming here.' The rolling hills and the layout of the historic Sunnehanna course impressed Marr. 'I knew it was a Tillinghast design, so I knew it was going to be a beautiful place,' Marr said of golf course architect A.W. Tillinghast. 'But are you kidding me? Up here on this hilltop, this mountaintop. It's such a beautiful location to have such a fantastic course and a great event. It all dovetails together and makes sense.' Advertisement His role on the livestream will have Marr looking both to the future and the past. 'I'm more of a historian,' Marr said. 'A lot of times, people focus in amateur golf on who's going to be on the PGA Tour in the future. If you look back just a decade ago, all four major championship winners from last year were in the (Sunnehanna Amateur) field a decade prior (in 2014). 'There are some great up-and-comers. 'The overall amateur game is focusing a little bit more toward college golf, the PGA U program, all of those things that are gearing those rare few to the tour, but there is a lot to be celebrated about amateur golf in general.' Advertisement Marr pointed to an interview PGA Tour winner Collin Morikawa did earlier this week on the eve of this year's U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club in Pittsburgh. The 2016 Sunnehanna Amateur champion, Morikawa reflected on his time in the Westmont tournament. 'Collin Morikawa just this week called it pure golf,' Marr said. 'To celebrate pure golf for all of those others in the field that are not going to play the PGA Tour or win major championships, I think it's an important thing for the overall strength and soul of the game. Sunnehanna is right in the middle of all of that.' Mike Mastovich is a sports reporter and columnist for The Tribune-Democrat. He can be reached at 814-532-5083. Follow him on Twitter @Masty81.
