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U.S. Mid-Amateur 7The Final: Lewis vs. Cook1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 185 4 4 3 4 5 3 4 5 4 3 4 4 5 4 4 3 54 4 4 3 4 3 3 4 6 4 3 4 4 5 4 4 3 55 5 4 2 4 4 3 4 5 4 4 4 3 4 4 5 3 7HoleParLewisCookHoleParlewiscook19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 365 4 4 3 4 5 3 4 5 4 3 4 4 5 4 4 3 54 4 4 3 5 3 2 5 4 4 3 4 3 5 4 44 3 4 4 4 3 3 4 5 4 4 4 5 4 4 4– Won holeMid-Am2011 Championship NotesLeadersRound 1 – Paul Simson, at 5-under-par 67 (Houstonian Golf& Country Club), by one stroke over John Engler and KevinPomarleau, who played Shadow Hawk Golf Club. Round 2 –Engler was medalist at 5-under-par 139, by one stroke overPomarleau and Simson.CutAt 5-over-par 149, with 20-for-3 playoff that lasted four holesfor the final match-play berths.WeatherPartly sunny and hot for both stroke-play rounds. OnSaturday, a thunderstorm delayed play for 2 hours, 32 minutes,and 99 golfers failed to complete their first round whendarkness suspended play for the day. On Sunday, anotherearly afternoon thunderstorm suspended play for 3 hours, 45minutes at 1:55 p.m. CDT. None of the golfers in the afternoonwave completed their second stroke-play qualifying roundwhen darkness suspended play for day at 7:18 p.m. CDT.The re-start of stroke-play qualifying on Monday morningwas delayed 30 minutes by a morning thunderstorm. It thenbecame partly cloudy to partly sunny for the rest of the day.The first round of match play eventually was suspended dueto darkness with 10 of the 32 matches yet to be completed.Fog on Tuesday morning delayed the re-start of round oneof match play and the start of the round of 32 by 30 minutes,with play beginning at 8 a.m. CDT. The rest of the week, itwas sunny to partly sunny and humid with temperatures in theupper 80s.NotesThere were four past U.S. Mid-Amateurs in the field, includingtwo-time defending champion Nathan Smith. Smith and2005 champion Kevin Marsh advanced to match play, whileGeorge Zahringer (2002) and Dave Womack (2006) failedto qualify … Tim Hogarth, the 2010 Mid-Amateur runner-upand 1996 U.S. Amateur Public Links champion, also failed toqualify … Paul Simson, 60, of Raleigh, N.C., the 2010 USGASenior Amateur champion, was the oldest player to makematch play … The youngest to make match play was TerenceBegnel, of Tulsa, Okla., who turned 25 three days prior to thestart of the competition. Begnel was also the youngest playerin the field … The oldest player in the field was 63-year-oldRick Tenbroeck … Smith (2009 and 2011) and Zahringer (2003)were the only two past USA Walker Cup Team members inthe field … Thirty-seven of the 64 match-play qualifiers werereinstated amateurs and there were 93 reinstated amateurs inthe entire field … Match-play qualifier Nicholas Biesecker, ofStaunton, Va., serves as a player-agent for Blue Giraffe Sports,the management company which represents 2008 U.S. Girls’Junior champion Alexis Thompson, who on Sept. 18 at theage of 16 became the youngest champion in LPGA Tour history… Former major league baseball pitcher Mike Ignasiakwas among the 20 golfers in the playoff for the final four spots.He also was in a playoff at the U.S. Amateur in August. In eachinstance, Ignasiak failed to get into the match-play draw …The average age of the 264 competitors was 37.09 … Matchplayqualifier Gary Robinson of San Diego, Calif., celebratedhis 33rd birthday during the first day of match play … A totalof 83 golfers were participating in their first USGA championshipand 129 were competing in their first U.S. Mid-Amateur... Mike McCaffrey, of League City, Texas, shot 68-68—136.However, he was disqualified after the championship upondiscovery that he had forfeited his amateur status due toactions prior to the championship.