SUGAR GROVE, Ill. – The majority of Friday afternoon’s matches at the Western Amateur weren’t particularly close. Jake Knapp and Gavin Hall made up for it.
Knapp needed six extra holes at Rich Harvest Farms to outlast Hall but he did just that, holing a 4-foot birdie putt on the par-4 sixth to claim his victory. Those 24 holes represented the second-longest match since the Western Amateur moved to 18-hole contests in 1961. The current record is 26 holes, set in 1979.
“The extra holes were like nothing else I ever played,” Knapp said in the aftermath of his victory.