PLAYER BIO’S:
Ryan McCarthy and Patrick McCormick:
Former college roommates and teammates at Loyola University in Maryland who graduated in 2012. Both are members at Baltimore Country Club, and helped lead their team to a victory in the Maryland State Team Championship. The team shot a qualifying round of 62 at Argyle Country Club to qualify for the USGA Four-Ball Championship. Patrick McCormick won the Maryland Open Championship in 2014 after defeating Denny McCarthy.
Trevor Randolph and Keith Unikel:
Both are members at Congressional Country Club in Potomac, Maryland. The team shot a qualifying round of 64 at Hackensack Golf Club in New Jersey to qualify for the USGA Four-Ball Championship. Unikel won the Maryland Open Championship in 1998 and was the runner-up in both the Maryland Amateur and Maryland Open 2010.
ROUND OF 16:
The last of five Maryland entries still in contention in the inaugural USGA men’s Four-Ball Championship was ushered to the sidelines, May 5, as Baltimore Country Club members Ryan McCarthy and Pat McCormick were beaten, 2 and 1, by Sherrill Britt, West End, N.C., and Greg Earnhardt, Greensboro, N.C., in a second-round match at The Olympic Club in San Francisco.
ROUND OF 32:
Maryland teams won one and lost one during the first round of match play in the inaugural USGA’s men’s Four-Ball Championship at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. Thirty two pairings from an original field of 128, played the opening round, with two rounds scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday to determine a champion.
Ryan McCarthy-Pat McCormick, from Baltimore Country Club, advanced with a 2-and-1 triumph over brothers Daniel Day, North Haven, Conn., and Benjamin Day, Clemson, S.C., while Congressional CC members Trevor Randolph and Keith Unikel lost to Tim Mickelson (Phil’s brother), from Scottsdale Arizona, and Jake Yount, TPC Potomac member, 2 down.
QUALIFYING ROUND:
Five players from Maryland were among the 32 qualifying for match play in the inaugural men’s USGA Four-Ball Championship at The Olympic Club in San Francisco, May 3. Five rounds are scheduled with play ending Wednesday afternoon.
The pairings of Congressional Country Club members Trevor Randolph-Keith Unikel and Baltimore CC members Ryan McCarthy-Pat McCormick each shot 135 to tie for eighth place. The latter two improved their position dramatically with a second-round 65, while the other pair ended 69-66. Jake Yount, a member of TPC Potomac also qualified for the round of 32 with partner Tim Mickelson (Scottsdale, AZ) and tied for 18th place with 68-69. Yount-Mickelson will meet Randolph-Unikel during the round of 32.
The others were college coaches Chris Baloga (Loyola Maryland) and Jeff Castle (Towson) who finished with 70-70–140, one stroke out of an eight-for-three playoff Monday morning. They were followed by Chevy Chase Club members Walter Egloff-Lee Detmer, 71-70–141, and Brian Hicks-Matthew McCormick, from Rockville, 73-75–148.
Medalist honors went to Maverick McNealy-Viraat Badhwar with 64-66–130. The pair are sophomore roommates and teammates at Stanford, helping the Cardinal to win the Pac-12 Championship.
-Reported by John Stewart
