6/24/26

(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.

Second Round

The field has been trimmed to the top 63 amateur players in the state, with the second round cut taking place at the Washington Men’s Amateur. Still in the lead is Spokane’s Bradley Mulder, who backed up his first round 66 with another low round of 67. His five-under round tied for the best round of the day. Today, Mulder went bogey-free, with birdies on the 3rd, 9th, 10th, 14th, and 16th holes for a clean card. Mulder holds a three-shot lead going into the final round at 11-under par for the championship.

Brock Maulding from Lake Tapps is in second, after he shot a three-under round of 69 to vault up to solo second. Maulding also went bogey-free, with birdies on the 2nd, 15th, and 16th holes. Maulding is currently at eight-under par for the championship. In solo third place is Kai Lambro from Newcastle. Lambro shot a two-under 70 to get to seven-under par and will join Mulder and Maulding in the final group. Bend, Oregon’s Sam Renner is in solo fourth place at six-under after a scintillating round of 67, which featured a run of four straight birdies and an eagle on the 10th hole.

The defending champ, Collin Hodgkinson from Beaverton, Oregon went on a charge today, firing a five-under round of 67, highlighted with an eagle at the 16th. He’s in a tie for fifth place at five-under with Everett’s Nick Ennis, Lynnwood’s Dalton Dean, and Centralia’s Von Wasson. In a tie for ninth is Spokane’s Benjamin Barrett and Wenatchee’s Callan Anderson, who each sit at four-under par for the week.

The front nine nearly played half a shot harder in the second round compared to the first. The scoring average was 37.38 while the back nine was slightly easier in round two, seeing a scoring average of 37.16. The hardest hole again was the 1st hole. The scoring average was barely easier today, down to 4.38, but only surrendered 12 birdies, while seeing 28 bogeys and 12 doubles or worse. The easiest hole was the par 5 16th hole, which saw a scoring average of 4.67. There were five eagles, 37 birdies, and only 7 bogeys or worse. There were six eagles on the par 5 10th hole, which was the third easiest hole of the day. The par 5 8th hole saw the most birdies with 46 and has played as the easiest hole of the week thus far, with a scoring average of 4.78.

The cut was at four-over par, and there were nine players who made the cut right on the number. 2015 champion, Charlie Kern from Seattle, shot two-under today with a birdie on 17 to just sneak inside the cut line. Canada’s Max Osten played his way in by firing a one-under round of 71 to make it to tomorrow.

Tomorrow, a champion is crowned, and the temperature will be roughly 20 degrees cooler than players have seen in the first two rounds.

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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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