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Amateur golf: Badgers golfer Eddie Wajda III withstands the Marquette mystique at Erin Hills to win his first Wisconsin State Amateur

Eddie Wajda III carried the University of Wisconsin golf banner into enemy territory Thursday and came away with the "W." Make that a motion "W."

Wajda, who will be a sophomore at UW this fall, won the 114th Wisconsin State Amateur Championship with a come-from-behind victory at Erin Hills in Erin, one of the courses the Marquette men's golf team calls home. And Wajda fought off a flock of Golden Eagles to win it.

His final-round 70 — mistake-free until a bogey on the final hole — gave him a 72-hole total of 5-over-par 293 and a one-stroke victory over current Marquette golfer Patrick Sanchez (72) and future Golden Eagle Matthew Bachmann (70), 17, a senior-to-be at Sheboygan Falls.