Two golfers…one? In the most fascinating competition of the year

Edison, NJ – Ramsey's frustration began to show as hopes of John Ramsey and partner Chadd Slutzky dwindled in the second round of the U.S. Amateur Four Championships on Tuesday, with Ramsey's frustration starting to show off.

After failing to pull the ball from the fairway bunker with a second swing on 16-4, Ramsey hastily shot his third shot, looking as if he had surrendered. Several shots, Ramsey threw the ball into Fescue behind the green, surfaced again. After Ramsey's third shot, long-standing 4 17, even more unsatisfied, it was a wrong chip that grabbed a ramp in front of the green and radiated from its mark. Ramsey has no impression of himself.

“Like you've never played golf before,” he growled.

Ramsey, 45, is a star on the Illinois Amateur Tour, of course a lot of Golf and extremely high level; without serious competition, you won't get into this stage of one of the elite amateur activities of the game. However, on the first tee Tuesday morning, he and Chicago's Slutzky met something of a competitive four-ball partner they hadn't seen in years: not two opponents, but one, only one, Marc Dull, 39, a garden seat in Florida, who also won his memorial as Stream Caddy.

“We kind of hoped both of us were here today,” Ramsey told me Tuesday afternoon to Dull and his partner Chip Brooke. “But he was one.”

Ramsey flew alone as Brooke had to bring Orlando back to Orlando's daughter to graduate from high school after he and Brooke advanced in the first round. Brooke's exit means Ramsey will get the curious difference to be the first player to compete sans Teammates in this championship match are now in their 10th year.

There are two with one that may work in the basement table tennis match or WWE, but this is not suitable for the format of elite amateur golf. “In 100 times, 99 times, they will win the game,” Duer later told me his opponent. He paused and adjusted his estimate. “Or 90 out of 100 points.”

They are long regardless of the odds. real Long. When you allow two scratch or touch players to pencil with the best score of two scores, it's very likely that they won't be worse than par and at least look at the birds well. As a case study, take the 2024 American Women’s Amateur Four Goals, former Drake University golfer Haeri Lee played by her loneliness in the second round when her partner had to quit the AP exam. After 10 holes, Li 6 fell down. She admitted the game.

On a breeze, sunny New Jersey morning, Ramsey and Sruzky looked as if they might have beaten Dull's 2 and 3 on Donald Ross Design at the flight field in Plainfield, thus jumping out of the 2-point lead.

But then dug it. He has 4 birds and recovered a hole. Save from the green at 5 o'clock; then, two more birdies were made at 6 and 7 o'clock to seize the lead. “They might assume I'd miss one or two of them,” Duer said of his birdie attempt, including breaking 2 feet at eight feet of the seventh foot. “Like, we work for a living, we are not professional golfers, but I go all out.”

Depressed to Ramsey and the slut? What's wrong?

Dull is a strong talent – ​​he is the Florida Golf Association’s two Amateur of the Year and finished second in the 2015 American Midseater – but he still has no business to make this game interesting. Instead, he made it a full tone. After a sluggish swamp piece at 10, the score was tied up again and remained that way until he was 13 years old, with his fourth-round birdie gaining another lead in the round. He has nothing to lose. His Ramsey and the slut can't say that.

“I think this may put more pressure on us,” Ramsey said of 2-VS.-1. “You don't want to be two guys who lost one person.”

Then there is the dagger. After tying 14 together with 15-15, Rammsey crashed home with a 35-foot (100 miles per hour) and Ramsey later said of the speed of the ball that it could have gone through 10 feet if it didn't disappear into the hole. If you’ve ever been a victim of putters like this, you know it instills incredible despair.

This brings us back to Ramsey’s grumpy temper at 16 and 17. “Because, I mean, I get it. If I'm playing a guy – if my partner and I are playing a guy – I'll be frustrated too. Why don't we kill this guy? You know what I mean? The idea is, he can't keep doing that. Like, he has to mess around somewhere.”

But boring is not. Instead, he threw a hayman again and again. “Not even missed a shot,” Ramsey said. “It’s incredible.”

The game ended when Ur calmly occupied 17 from the back of the green, while neither Ramsey nor the slut could manage the birdies.

After his historic 2 and 2 wins, while bored preparing lunch on the clubhouse terrace, he said he was in good health but was “mentally exhausted.” The break isn't in the near future, though – another 2-VS.-1 showdown was his afternoon quarterfinal against Maryland's outstanding figures, Hunter Powell and Carson Looney. If Dure can somehow make it to Wednesday’s semifinals, his partner Brooke is ready to jump back from Orlando, but until then, Dure was alone.

Can he fight again? Boy, he can. After another early deficit – he fell 2 times in 5 holes – Dumbo caused two birdies and an eagle in 5 holes to recover to 10 holes. The eagle was on 4th 10, and in a separation hole in the fairway there, he stayed the second from 132. Later, his second hole was stabbed in 17 holes, and the game, the game was very obvious. But it won't last long. In the driveable 4-18-18 match, Duer smashed his T-shirt ball into a green bunker, but two additional swings were needed to find the green. He earned 5 on his opponent – Sorry, opponent – Let 3 win 1 and win a place in the semifinals.

Powell and Looney were delighted on the 18th green, but also awe of the boring stuff they witnessed. “To get him out, repeat, not only repeat, but play better is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen,” Powell said. “When we shook hands, we told him he was the best golfer we’ve ever seen.”