Oklahoma State University Athletics
Peter Uihlein Moves Into U.S. Amateur Final
August 28, 2010 | Cowboy Golf
Aug. 28, 2010
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. - Oklahoma State's Peter Uihlein defeated Patrick Cantlay, 4 and 3, on Saturday at the U.S. Amateur to advance to the championship match at Chambers Bay.
The Cowboy junior played steady all day, making just one bogey against two birdies and 12 pars en route to his victory. Uihlein won the first hole of the day with a par and never surrendered his lead.
After the two players halved the next four holes, Uihlein's par at the sixth gave him a 2-up advantage. Cantlay sandwiched birdies at the 8th and 10th around a Uihlein birdie at the ninth to trim the lead back to one, before Uihlein's par at the 11th pushed the margin back to 2-up.
The duo halved the next two holes with pars before Uihlein extended to a 3-up lead with a par at the 521-yard, par-4 14th. The Orlando, Fla., native closed out the match with another par at the 246-yard, par-3 15th.
Uihlein will face Stanford's David Chung in tomorrow's 36-hole final at 7:00 a.m. (PST).
The 2010 first-team All-American is OSU's first finalist since the Cowboys had back-to-back championship-match participants in Hunter Mahan (2002) and Casey Wittenberg (2003).
OSU has had three players win the U.S. Amateur with Labron Harris, Jr. (1962), Bob Dickson (1967) and Scott Verplank (1984) all hoisting the Havemeyer Trophy.
