Crump Cup: Stewart Hagestad two wins away from defending his title
The semi-final matches are set in the 99th Crump Cup. The top seed in the Championship flight, Brad Tilley, will face off against
Andrew Price. In the other semi-final, last year’s champion,
Stewart Hagestad, will play 2022 runner-up
Jimmy Ellis.
Hagestad won the rain-shortened event last season, taking down Stephen Behr, the 2022 winner, in a one-hole playoff after both men shot 73 on Saturday in the one-round sprint to the Cup.
Hagestad is ranked No. 3 in the AmateurGolf.com Mid-Amateur Rankings.
Brad Nurski, the top seed in the Second Flight, also made it to the semi-finals; however, Patrick Duffy, the top seed in the Third Flight, lost to 16-seed Taylor Wood. Wood, who was the last man into the match play after matching of cards between nine players for two spots, is still alive after also winning his quarterfinal match.
Another top seed who lost was Bob Royak. The medalist in the Senior Division lost to Rupert Kellock in the quarterfinals.
Royak is ranked No. 1 in the AmateurGolf.com Senior Rankings.
On Sunday, all five flights in the Open and Senior Divisions will have their semi-final and final matches.
ABOUT THE
Crump Cup
The George A. Crump Memorial Tournament --
named
for the
hotelier and course architect most famous for
building
Pine Valley -- is arguably the premier mid-
amateur
event in the United States. The invitational field
is
made of of top players from around the United
States
and the UK. The format for the four days is two
rounds
of stroke play qualifying, followed by four
rounds
of
match play. Players are flighted according to
their
qualifying position, and a separate Senior flight
includes three of those flights. Jay Sigel has won
the
event the most times, with nine victories
between
1975 and 1993.
Normally, the public is invited to attend the Sunday
final matches but that tradition has been suspended.
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