Bradley Kauffman wins 42nd SC Amateur Match Play Championship

SEABROOK ISLAND, SC – Final Match results of the 42^nd South Carolina Amateur Match Play Championship of the Carolinas Golf Association hosted by Seabrook Island Club in Seabrook Island, SC on Sunday, June 8, 2014 (6765 yards, par 36-36—72, 73.1/144).

Winthrop University golfer Bradley Kauffmann defeated stroke play qualifying medalist Brian Langley in impressive fashion Sunday morning. He defeated Langley by a 7 & 5 margin to win the 2014 South Carolina Amateur Match Play Championship, his first CGA Championship.  The rising sophomore, and Greer, SC native, never lost a hole and won the 4^th hole with a par then won five holes in a row starting on 7, doing it with 4 pars and a bogey.  The 12^th hole was halved with pars and Kauffman clinched the match with a conceded birdie on #13.

 

Kauffman said his strategy changed on the third hole Wednesday in stroke play qualifying when he hit his tee shot with a driver in the water hazard.  “I didn’t hit driver the rest of the week, just more worried about hitting fairways than hitting it a long way.  It was all about the gameplan.” Kauffman was steady all day ending up one-under after 13, and had his lone bogey on #10.

Seabrook Island was a very tight golf course that played hard and fast and most of the time in 15mph winds. 

Bluffton, SC native Brian Langley was trying to go from stroke play medalist to champion for the first time since Todd White pulled the double in 2010.  Langley, who will be turning pro at the end of the year, just said he ran out of steam at the end.  “I had grinded all week in my matches and got three-down today and just couldn’t recover.”

Kauffman’s win earned him an exemption into the 2014 Carolinas Amateur Championship that will be played July 10-13, 2014 at Greenville Country Club (Chanticleer Course) in Greenville, SC.

Interview with 42^nd South Carolina Amateur Match Play Champion, Bradley Kauffman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_7_LK_c-n8

Scoring for the final match can be found here:  https://www.ghintpp.com/carolinasgolf/TPPOnlineScoring/MatchCard.aspx?ID=511&mgid=60&mid=1852

 

For more information on the 2014 South Carolina Amateur Match Play Championship please visit: https://www.carolinasgolf.org/championship/home/14scmatch/year/2014

                                                         

This championship is conducted by the Carolinas Golf Association which is its 105^th year of serving amateur golf in the Carolinas.

Championship Match Results

Bradley Kauffman, Greer, S.C.  (11) def. Brian Langley, Bluffton, S.C.  (1), 7 and 5