Bai Continues his Summer of Success with Palmetto Am Win

8/5/2017 | by Art Stricklin of AmateurGolf.com

Zhengkai "Bobby" Bai After His Palmetto Am Win

Monday qualifier, Bobby Bai, capped off his 5-shot victory at the Palmetto Am with a 69 in Saturday's Final Round.

AIKEN, South Carolina (August 5, 2017) -- Zhengkai (Bobby) Bai summer of amateur golfing success rolled on nicely as he won the 46th annual Palmetto Amateur Saturday with a 69-268 total at historic Palmetto Country Club for a five-shot victory over Henry Shimp. Bai, a rising sophomore at UCF qualified for match play at the British Amateur earlier this summer and was named American Athletic Conference freshman of the year and all conference this spring at UCF. “I had a good day today and played a pretty good week. It’s exciting to win a prestigious tournament against a lot of good players,” he said. Bai, who had to Monday qualify to even get into the field this week, seized control of the tournament with a second round 64 and took a six-shot lead going to the final day. Despite going out in two over 36 Saturday, he never lost the lead and birdied three holes on the back nine to win going away. “The more I played the course, the better I got to know it,” Bai said. “I gained confidence from the way I played.” Shimp, a sophomore golfer at Stanford University, shot the low round of the final day to finish at 65-273 with birdies on three of the last five holes. Florida State golfer Jonathan Keppler was alone in third place at 69-277.

Results: Palmetto Amateur

Place	Player	Location	Pts	Scores
1	Bobby Bai	, China	700	66-64-69-69=268
2	Henry Shimp	Charlotte, NC	500	69-66-73-65=273
3	Jonathan Keppler	Marietta, GA	400	69-73-66-69=277
T4	Archer Price	Gastonia, NC	400	66-72-71-69=278
T4	Caleb Proveaux	Lexington, SC	400	67-74-67-70=278

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