Golf Week · Aug 8, 2015
Knapp prevails in marathon quarter match at Western Am
Jake Knapp during the quarterfinals at the Western Amateur. ( Courtesy of Western Golf Association )SUGAR GROVE, Ill. – The majority of Friday afternoon’s matches at the Western Amateur weren’t particularly close. Jake Knapp and Gavin Hall made up for it.
Knapp needed six extra holes at Rich Harvest Farms to outlast Hall but he did just that, holing a 4-foot birdie putt on the par-4 sixth to claim his victory. Those 24 holes represented the second-longest match since the Western Amateur moved to 18-hole contests in 1961. The current record is 26 holes, set in 1979.