Rice Planters Amateur: Four tied atop first-round leaderboard
Will Long
MT. PLEASANT, S.C. (June 24, 2015) — Two
Charleston college golfers are among the four-
way tie
for the lead at the Rice Planters Amateur at
Snee
Farm Country Club. Julian Keur (Charleson
Southern)
and College of Charleston’s William Rainey
(College of
Charleston) both fired 65 and are tied with Will
Long
and Cameron MacKay of University of
Connecticut.
Keur birdied half the holes today, recording
four
ont the front nine and five on the back against
bogeys
on Nos. 1 and 8. As for Long, who plays for
Auburn,
his round was a bit more exciting -- out in 36
and
back in 29. And how's this for a closing 7 holes?
Birdie, birdie, par, birdie, eagle, birdie, birdie.
We're
betting that Long can't wait to get to the first tee
tomorrow.
Giving chase are 2014 U.S. Open participant
(remember him from Pinehurst?) Will Grimmer
of Ohio
State (66), and Hayden Wood of Oklahoma State
(67).
2013 champion Maverick Antcliff and last
year's
runner-up Andrew Novak are tied with three
other
players in seventh place. Defending champion
Rigel
Fernandes opted to play the Northeast Amateur
in
Rhode Island this week instead of defending his
title.
ABOUT THE
Rice Planters Amateur
The Rice Planters Amateur was the inspiration of
amateur golfer, Dick Horne. During his first Porter
Cup
at the Niagara Falls Country Club in 1973, Horne
befriended the tournament's chairman Dick Harvey.
Harvey encouraged a receptive Horne to develop his
own southern tournament and, consequently, along
with other Porter Cup officials, shared enough useful
information to get Horne started in the South. The
Rice Planters quickly grew to become one of the top
amateur events in the country.
FORMAT AND ENTRY
INFORMATION
The Rice Planters is played over
54 holes of stroke play. While
entries are
by invitation only, the tournament typically
holds a 90-player qualifier for the final five spots in
the
field.
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