6/23/26
(DuPont, WA) The 105th Washington Men’s Amateur Championship heads to The Home Course for the first time ever. 120 players will look to join an illustrious list of past champions that includes former and current PGA Tour players like Fred Couples, Joe Highsmith, and Joel Dahmen, and other figures like John Bodenhamer, the Chief Championships Officer for the USGA. After 36 holes, a cut will bring the field to the top 60 and ties for Thursday’s final round. The winner receives World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) points and an exemption into the 2026 U.S. Amateur Championship, held at the legendary Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, in August, among other exemptions.
Last year, Collin Hodgkinson won the title by one shot over five players at Bear Creek Country Club in Woodinville. Hodgkinson will look to be the first person to successfully defend their title since Don Scott won back-to-back Washington Men’s Amateurs in 1968 and 1969.
First Round
21 players finished the first round under par, but it would be Spokane’s Bradley Mulder who came through with a six-under 66 to surge to the top of the leaderboard through 18 holes. Mulder birdied the 1st, bogeyed the 3rd before rattling off three straight birdies to close out the front nine. He added a fourth in a row when he birdied the 10th and had back-to-back birdies on 16 and 17 to close out a near-perfect day.
One shot back is a quartet of players who all shot five-under rounds of 67. Mill Creek’s Henry Kippenhan, Centralia’s Von Wasson, Lake Tapps’ Brock Maulding, and Newcastle’s Kai Lambro all had very impressive starts to their Championship. Andy Hobson from East Wenatchee is in solo sixth place after a four-under 68. Jacob Kang, out of Mill Creek, was the lone player to fire a three-under 69 and sits in seventh.
Rounding out the top ten are nine players tied for eighth after two-under rounds of 70. Wenatchee’s Callan Anderson, Tacoma’s David Sibbett, Scottsdale, Arizona’s Elias Tunison, Gig Harbor’s Theodore Snyder, Seattle’s Erik Heggelund, Brulington’s Wyatt Brownell, Canada’s Wyatt Brook, Cle Elum’s Gordon Rounds, and Everett’s Nick Ennis all completed their days just four shots back of the leader.
The hardest hole of the day was the first hole, which saw a scoring average of 4.46, only nine birdies and 38 bogeys with nine doubles or worse. Meanwhile, the par 5 8th was the easiest, with a scoring average of 4.79, one eagle, 42 birdies, and only 16 bogeys or worse. The 42 birdies were 14 more than the next highest holes, which were the 3rd and 5th holes with 28 birdies each. The front nine played slightly easier than the back, with a scoring average of 36.97 for the first nine and 37.31 for the closing nine. Three of the four par 5s played under par, while the second and third hardest holes on the course were the tricky 12th and 14th holes, which are both par 3s.
The action continues tomorrow, as the 36-hole cut will trim the field to the top 60 and ties before trophy day on Thursday.
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