SAN FRANCISCO – John Daly II and Neil Shields Dodegan gained two video games on the Olympic Membership on Thursday, reaching the US beginner quarterfinals as extra top-ranked gamers have been eradicated.
Daly, son of two-time main champion John Daly, defeated Nate Smith 2 and 1 within the morning within the thirty second spherical and handed South African 3 and a couple of Daniel Bennett within the sixteenth spherical.
Daly, a sophisticated Arkansas participant, arrange a match towards 18-year-old Mason Howell from Georgia.
Howell beat Virginia senior Ben James 1 and Max Helenden 2 and 1 in second place.
Donegan gained two one, topped with ninth place Christian Mars from South Africa and 4th place Preston Stout, a junior from Oklahoma who was a stroke play medalist.
Donegan, who performs below the Scottish flag and lives within the Bay Space, took the lead with a 20-foot birdie putt in par 5 sixteenth place, even stouting alongside birdie on the par 3 fifteenth.
“I used to be overjoyed, I used to be elated,” Donegan stated. “Yeah, superb. I am simply attempting to benefit from the second proper now and put together for tomorrow.”
Donegan was among the many 17 gamers who superior from the 20-man playoffs Wednesday morning to determine the ultimate 64 gamers within the recreation. His father, Lawrence, was a longtime golf correspondent for the Guardian.
Donegan will face two winners of China’s Paul Chang, Jacob Modresky. Modleski, No. 15, is the highest participant on this planet’s beginner rankings.
Russell, 16-year-old mile from Jacksonville Seaside, Florida, additionally made it to the quarter-finals, beating Pepperdine’s Mahant Chirabli 2 and 1. Russell is ranked sixteenth within the rankings.
Russell will face twenty ninth place Eric Lee. Eric Lee is Josh Duane Manny’s two winners when Duane Manny loses the ball from the tee on the ultimate gap. Within the different quarterfinals, Jimmy Abdo will play Jackson Herrington.
“As a loser, I really feel I’ve little strain to work,” stated Abdo, who completed his freshman season with Gustavas Adolphus in Minnesota. “I really feel like I am on the market and have a reasonably free time to play, and that is what we did due to many of the holes we’re there.”
