App’s Browning Wins CGA’s North Carolina Amateur Match Play – WHKY

An unbeaten weekend in Wilmington gave App State’s Colin Browning the Carolina Golf Affiliation’s North Carolina Newbie Match Play title.

Browning, who shall be a third-year sophomore this fall for the Mountaineers, posted a 3-and-1 victory Sunday in opposition to Michael La Sasso within the championship match on the Nation Membership of Landfall.

Seeded nineteenth, Browning went 5-0 within the occasion with App State teammate Josh Buxbaum serving as his caddie. Browning recorded a 6-and-5 victory in Spherical 1, a 2-and-1 victory within the Spherical of 16, a 5-and-4 win within the quarterfinal in opposition to Nolan Mills IV and a 2-and-1 semifinal victory in opposition to Carson Ownbey.

“I hit the ball very well, and my brief recreation was superb,” Browning stated. “My brief recreation freed me up this event. I might play aggressive tee to inexperienced.”

Browning gained the second and fourth holes Sunday morning in opposition to La Sasso, a rising freshman at NC State, to assert a fast 2-up lead within the championship match. La Sasso pulled even on the flip and, after each gamers birdied the tenth gap, Browning gained 4 of the following seven holes to clinch the victory.

A birdie on gap No. 11, adopted by a win at gap No. 12, pushed Browning to a 2-up benefit. La Sasso got here again to win gap No. 13 with a birdie, however Browning practically aced the par-3 fifteenth gap earlier than closing out the match with one other birdie at No. 17.

“At the moment’s match was fairly loopy,” Browning stated. “Michael and I have been each enjoying properly — we tied a superb quantity of holes with birdies, so it was an excellent match. I made a superb putt on 11, had a superb win on 12 and tried to maintain the hammer down. He made an incredible putt on 13 to make it 1 up for me. Once I about made a hole-in-one on 15, that just about sealed it.”

Unofficially, Browning totaled 26 strokes on the primary eight holes of the again 9 and 62 complete strokes over 17 holes. By his facet was Buxbaum, who shall be a redshirt freshman at App State this fall.

“Josh was nice on the bag,” Browning stated. “He stored me free, and we had lots of enjoyable on the market. He gave me confidence on the greens, which helped me rather a lot.”