Top eight seeds advance at Colorado Match Play
Nick Nosewicz
AURORA, Colo. — All of the top eight seeds, including defending champion Cody Kent of The Club at Ravenna and stroke-play medalist Nick Nosewicz of Meadow Hills Golf Course, won their first-round matches Tuesday in the 115th CGA Match Play Championship at CommonGround Golf Course in Aurora.
Kent defeated Jeffrey Leavitt of the Omni Interlocken Resort, 3 and 1, to advance to the round of 32. And Nosewicz, runner-up in the 2014 CGA Stroke Play, topped David Lindquist of CommonGround, 6 and 5.
Also among the top seeds who won Tuesday were Alex Kephart of Eisenhower Golf Club (No. 3 seed), Braden Baer of Legacy Ridge Golf Course (No. 4), Spencer Painton of Green Valley Ranch Golf Club (No. 5), 2014 Match Play runner-up Jacob Allenback of Walking Stick Golf Course (No. 6), Chris Korte of Lone Tree Golf Club (No. 7) and Steve Irwin of Lakewood Country Club (No. 8).
The only top-10 seed to lose his first-round match Tuesday was ninth-seeded Andrew Tapia of Elmwood Golf Course, who fell 3 and 2 to former state high school champion Gus Lundquist of Colorado Golf Club.
One former champion was ousted in the round of 64 as Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Kent Moore of Cherry Hills Country Club lost to Painton 2 up.
Two rounds of matches will be contested on Wednesday, reducing the field to the final eight. The 36-hole final of the Match Play is set for Friday.
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ABOUT THE Colorado Match Play
The CGA Match Play Championship will be played
using the PGA TOUR style match play Pod
Play system at gross scoring. This means that any
player who qualifies for the
championship will be guaranteed at least three (3)
matches in the championship at
CommonGround Golf Course. After each player is
ranked (see below), all players will be
distributed into their pod with three (3) other
players. This will yield 16 pods of four (4)
players. Each player will play all three other players
in their pod (see schedule below). The
winner of each pod will advance to the Round of 16
and a single elimination knockout
round will be played at CommonGround Golf Course.
The top 8 players will advance to
complete the championship at Colorado Golf Club in
a single elimination bracket.
Player Seeding: All 64 players will be ranked 1 – 64.
The defending champion will be
ranked #1. Exempt players will be ranked next based
on their 2020 CGA Player of the Year
points standings. The rest of the field of 64 will be
made from qualifying players that came
from an off-site qualifier. Qualifying players will be
ranked in order of their qualifying score
at their given site.
Pod Assignments/Seeding: The pods will follow the
PGA TOUR style of randomized drawing.
Once players have been seeded 1 - 64, players will
be drawn at random so that each pod
will consist of a player ranked 1 - 16 (Player 1), 17 -
32 (Player 2), 33 - 48 (Player 3) and
49 - 64 (Player 4).
Pod Play Scoring: There will be no extra holes during
the pod play portion of matches.
Scoring during pod play will be as follows: Match
Won – 1 point | Match Tied – ½ point |
Match Lost – 0 Points.
Note: If there is a tie for the pod winner, a sudden
death playoff will determine the person
advancing from that pod.
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