6/26/25
(Woodinville, WA) It was a topsy-turvy day at Bear Creek Country Club for the final round of the 104th Washington Men’s Amateur Championship. The leaderboard was so tight you could throw a blanket over the top seven players.
Beaverton, Oregon’s Collin Hodgkinson hung on to win the title by one shot over five players who tied for second. Hodgkinson shot a 1-over 73 in the final round for a three-day total of 213, 3-under. Hodgkinson got off to a nervy start, with bogeys on four of his first six holes, but quickly recovered with a birdie on seven to go out with a 3-over 39. Hodgkinson birdied the 10th and 12th holes, while rattling off six consecutive clutch pars to shoot 2-under on the back and win the title. Hodgkinson is going into his junior year at Oregon State and last year won the Northwest Open Invitational. With the win, Hodgkinson is exempt into the 125th U.S. Amateur Championship at The Olympic Club in San Francisco, California. He is also exempt into the 2025 Pacific Coast Amateur Championship, 2025 Rosauers Open (Champion must reside in the Pacific Northwest Section), 2025 Northwest Open (Champion must reside in the Pacific Northwest Section), 2026 Washington Champion of Champions, 2026 Pacific Northwest Men’s Amateur Championship, 2026 Washington Open (Champion must reside in the Pacific Northwest Section), and a lifetime exemption into the Washington Men’s Amateur Championship.
The group of five who tied for second was Spokane’s Guillermo Polo Bodart, Enumclaw’s Jaeger Christian, Stanwood’s Conrad Chisman, Seattle’s Charlie Kern, and defending champion Woodland’s Dane Huddleston. The group all finished at 214, 2-under for the week. Bodart shot one of two sub-70 rounds in the final round, with a 3-under 69. Christian shot a pair of 1-under 35s en route to a final round 70, and improved his score every round this week. Chisman shot a 3-over 39 on the front but made a furious rally on the back nine with a 4-under 32 to jump into the tie for second. Kern had a final round 71, which featured a stretch from the 10th to 14th holes where he birdied 10, doubled 11, then birdied 12, 13, and 14 as part of his back nine of 34. The reigning champ, Dane Huddleston, made a good run at being the first back-to-back champion of the tournament since the 1960s, but his even par 72 put him one shot out of a playoff. All five players receive an exemption into Final Qualifying for the 2026 U.S. Amateur Championship.
Johnny Carey from Seattle finished solo seventh with a three-day total of 215, 1-under for the week. Tied for eighth were Mill Creek’s Jacob Kang, Spokane’s Ty Anderson, and Seattle’s Kevin Hollomon at 217, 1-over par. Spokane’s Benjamin Mulder had the low round of the day with a 4-under 68 to finish tied for 17th with his twin brother, Bradley.
The hardest hole of the final round was the hardest hole of the week, the par-4 6th hole. The hole had an average score of 4.63 and only one birdie was made in the final round, compared to 22 bogeys and 7 doubles. There were only 11 birdies all week long at the 6th. The easiest hole was the 12th hole, which was the easiest hole of the week. For the week, the 12th played under par, with a scoring average of 4.98. In the final round, there were an eagle, 19 birdies, and only 7 bogeys.
The front nine played a stroke harder than the back nine, with four of the five hardest holes of the week being on the front. The back nine surrendered 92 more birdies than the front nine. There were only 25 rounds under par for the week, with 258 rounds over par.
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