LOUISVILLE, KY (July 14, 2020) – Day one of the 2020 Kentucky Match Play Championships is complete, and compelling matches are now set for the knockout stage of the competition. Tuesday’s play featured stroke play qualifying in each division excluding the Senior Net Division, which played its quarterfinals matches today. The results from that division’s matches are as follows:

• (8) Jerry Dowdy def. (1) Brian James 10&8 (James was disqualified for not reaching the starting tee in time)
• (5) Jeffrey Ramsey def. (4) Jerry Edwards 2&1
• (2) Kenny Bates def. (7) David Dewilde 2&1
• (3) David Biddle def. (6) Jason Parroco 1 UP

It will be Dowdy versus Ramsey and Bates versus Biddle tomorrow morning in the semifinals with spots in Thursday morning’s championship match on the line.

For the Open Division, it was forty players gunning for thirty-two spots to start the competition. Joshua Rhodes of Paducah led the pack to clinch the number one seed by virtue of a 65 (-7). He will face Leif Neathery in the first round who secured the final spot in match play with 77 (+5). In all, nineteen players from this division broke par and ten recorded sub-70 rounds. The high caliber of players advancing guarantees there will be a surplus of exciting matches to come the next three days.

Buddy Bryant had an eye-catching performance to claim the top seed in the Senior Division. A 68 (-4) from Bryant bettered the next closest player, Jim Murphy, by four strokes. Allen Hayes will be tasked with the assignment of facing Bryant in tomorrow morning’s Round of 16 match after Hayes earned the final spot with 81 (+9).

NOTES AND STATS

• Fog briefly delayed play in the morning by 24 minutes as a thick layer came over Nevel Meade Golf Club shortly before the first group teed off.
• The shot of the day came from Jonathon Ice on the par-four 6^th hole when he drove the green and came reasonably close to holing out from the tee. Ice would capitalize on the short eagle putt on his way to shooting 67 (-5) while getting the fourth seed in the Open Division.

WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE

MORNING

Open Division: Round of 32 matches.

Senior Division: Round of 16 matches.

Senior Net Division: Semifinal matches.

AFTERNOON

Open Division: Round of 16 matches.

Senior Division: Quarterfinal matches.

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