After 1st Round of Stroke-Play Qualifying, leaderboard crowded near the top; Simmons leads Men at 5-under, Inglis tops Women with 2-under with 18 holes to play before cut.
Woodburn, Ore. (June 13, 2014) – Kurt Simmons (Hermiston, Ore.) sits alone atop the leaderboard after the first round of the 105th Oregon Amateur Championship qualifying after firing a bogey-free, five under par.
It’s anyone’s medalist honors to earn, as bunched up just back of Simmons are a slew of players poised for contention including Tye Gabriel (Portland, Ore.), Tim O’Neal (Vancouver, Wash.) and Justin Wiles (Klamath Falls, Ore.) all at four-under par, Gerrit Chambers (Brush Prarie, Wash.) at three-under par and Scott Hval (Portland, Ore.), Justin Kadin (Corvallis, Ore.) and Taylor Schmidt (Boise, Ore.) all two-under par. An additional 12 players sit at even par or better making it a total of twenty players at even-par or better.
In the Women’s Division, Caroline Inglis (Eugene, Ore.) leads after a first round two-under par 70, sitting just ahead of Aram Choi (Surrey, B.C.), defending champion Kendall Prince (Lake Oswego, Ore.) and 2010 Champion Monica Vaughn (Reedsport, Ore.) all at 1-under par 71 and 2013 Oregon Junior Girls Amateur Champion Gigi Stoll (Beaverton, Ore.) just three back at 1-over par 73.
The OGA Golf Course, softened by intermittend downpours, is playing to 6,531 yards with a slope and rating of 72.0/141 for the men and 5,938 yards with a slope and rating of 75.3/141 for the women. The weather for the rest of the week is expected to improve becoming dryer and warmer.
The OGA Golf Course last hosted the Oregon Amateur Championship in 2003 and each year hosts numerous OGA, Oregon Junior Golf, Collegiate & High School tournaments.
CLICK HERE for Monday's Men's scores. CLICK HERE for Monday's Women's scores.
The Oregon Golf Association (OGA) is a 501(c)(6) non-profit membership association. Founded in 1924, the OGA was originally established with the sole purpose of conducting the Oregon Amateur Championship. Since its founding in 1924, the OGA works tirelessly to promote, foster and grow the game of golf providing a multitude of benefits and services to approximately 42,000 individual men, women, senior, and junior members at over 270 member golf clubs and 190 golf courses throughout Oregon and SW Washington.
