TRUCKEE, Calif. | Spencer Painton’s run at the 66th U.S. Junior Amateur Championship golf tournament came to an end Wednesday in the opening round of match play.
The Regis Jesuit High School senior-to-be survived a playoff Tuesday to qualify for the field of 64 to make match play at Martis Camp Club, but Scottie Scheffler of Dallas, Texas, knocked the Aurora golfer out with a 7 & 5 victory Wednesday.
The third-seeded Scheffler won the first hole over the 62nd-seeded Painton and didn’t look back, building his lead to five holes at the turn and winning holes 11-13 to give himself a margin of seven with just five holes to play. Painton halved four holes and won the par 5, Hole No. 10, before he dropped three straight par 4s to end the match.
Scheffler advanced to the round of 32, where he drew a matchup with 35th-seeded Maverick McNealy of Portola Valley, Calif., on Thursday.
The tournament — which started with 165 qualifiers from across the U.S., plus Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, England, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Venezuela and Zimbabwe — moves on without any Colorado players left in the field. Castle Rock’s Josh Seiple also lost in the first round of match play Wednesday, falling to Nick Heinen of Edmond, Okla., in 19 holes.
Painton’s Regis Jesuit teammate, Jake Kelley, missed the playoff by a single shot after two rounds of stroke play.
Reach Sports Editor Courtney Oakes at sports@aurorasentinel.com or 303-750-7555
66TH U.S. JUNIOR AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
Match play results, July 25 at Martis Camp Club
No. 1 Jim Liu (Smithtown, N.Y.) def. No. 64 Matthew Lowe (Farmingdale, N.Y.), 19 holes
No. 33 John Augenstein (Owensboro, Ky.) def. No. 32 Matthew Perine (Austin, Texas), 5 & 4
No. 49 Brad Dalke (Hobart, Okla.) def. No. 16 Alvaro Ortiz (Mexico), 4 & 3
No. 48 Brian Carlson (Madison, Conn.) def. No. 17 Lucas Herbert (Australia), 4 & 3
No. 8 Sam Horsfield (England) def. No. 57 Dean Sakata (Diamond Bar, Calif.), 7 & 6
No. 25 Nick Hardy (Northbrook, Ill.) def. No. 40 Will Grimmer (Cincinnati, Ohio), 3 & 2
No. 9 Aaron Terrazas (Bluffton, S.C.) def. No. 56 Wes Artac (Kingwood, Texas), 20 holes
No. 24 Sean Crocker (Zimbabwe) def. No. 41 Austin Connelly (Irving, Texas), 7 & 5
No. 4 Zachary Bauchou (Forest, Va.) def. No. 61 Coleman Self (Greenwood, S.C.), 19 holes
No. 36 Sahith Theegala (China Hills, Calif.) def. No. 29 Patrick Murphy (Canada), 1 up
No. 52 Zecheng Dou (People’s Republic of China) def. No. 13 Tyler Moore (Escondido, Calif.), 4 & 3
No. 20 Ryan Ruffels (Australia) def. No. 45 Theo Humphrey (Greenwich, Conn.), 4 & 2
No. 5 Davis Riley (Hattiesburg, Miss.) def. No. 60 Chase Johnson (Barberton, Ohio), 3 & 1
No. 37 Luis Gagne (Costa Rica) def. No. 28 Brian Mogg (Sammamish, Wash.), 2 & 1
No. 53 Trevor Phillips (Inman, S.C.) def. No. 12 William Register (Burlington, N.C.), 4 & 3
No. 21 Daniel Connolly (San Francisco, Calif.) def. No. 44 Jacob Joiner (Albany, Ga.), 2 & 1
No. 2 Cameron Young (Scarborough, N.Y.) def. No. 63 Matt Echelmeier (Columbia, Mo.), 3 & 1
No. 34 Tyson Reeder (Edmond, Okla.) def. No. 31 Jeremy Wall (Brielle, N.J.), 5 & 4
No. 15 George Cunningham (Tucson, Ariz.) def. No. 50 Mitchell Schow (Ogden, Utah), 1 up
No. 47 Jeffrey Swegle (West Des Moines, Iowa) def. No. 18 Cheng Jin (People’s Republic of China), 1 up
No. 7 Corey Eddings (Roseville, Calif.) def. No. 58 Will Bernstein (New York, N.Y.), 19 holes
No. 39 Jooho Lee (Canada) def. No. 26 Thaddeus Obecny II (Wheeling, W.Va.), 20 holes
No. 55 Doug Ghim (Arlington Heights, Ill.) def. No. 10 Adam Wood (Zionsville, Ind.), 2 & 1
No. 23 William Gordon (Davidson, N.C.) def. No. 42 Jake Shuman (Needham, Mass.), 2 & 1
No. 3 Scottie Scheffler (Dallas, Texas) def. NO. 62 SPENCER PAINTON (AURORA, COLO.), 7 & 5
No. 35 Maverick McNealy (Portola Valley, Calif.) def. No. 30 Cole Berman (Rosemont, Pa.), 2 & 1
No. 51 Corey Shaun (Encinitas, Calif.) def. No. 14 Jack Comstock (Jacksonville, Fla.), 1 up
No. 46 Justin Suh (San Jose, Calif.) def. No. 19 Benjamin Griffin (Chapel Hill, N.C.), 6 & 4
No. 6 Jorge Antonio Garcia (Venezuela) def. No. 59 Andy Zhang (People’s Republic of China), 3 & 1
No. 38 Nick Heinen (Edmond, Okla.) def. NO. 27 JOSH SEIPLE (CASTLE ROCK, COLO.), 19 holes
No. 11 Wilson Furr (Jackson, Miss.) def. No. 54 Keenan Huskey (Greenville, S.C.), 1 up
No. 22 P.J. Samiere (Kailua, Hawaii) def. No. 43 Sam Meuret (Brunswick, Neb.), 4 & 3
