Eastlake graduate wins men’s amateur golf championship
July 7, 2010
By Christopher Huber
Sammamish resident Jeremy Wendelken won the 84th Washington State Golf Association Men’s Amateur Championship June 25, held at White Horse Golf Club in Kingston, according to the WSGA.
Kevin Penner, also of Sammamish, tied for fourth with a 292. Wendelken, an Eastlake High School grad and sophomore at Sonoma (Calif.) State University, scored a 2-under par 286 overall after firing a 70-stroke final round. He beat Tacoma’s T.J. Bordeaux, who shot a 289.
Wendelken was the only golfer to break par, according to the association.
Wendelken started the final day one stroke behind then-leader Chris Williams, of Moscow, Idaho. But he birdied the first hole and eventually birdied two more on the front nine.
Four bogeys on the front nine negated the progress against Williams, but Williams struggled on the back nine. Wendelken came back, paring holes No. 10-15.
He was tied after 15 holes with Bordeaux and Sammamish’s Kevin Penner, a 2009 Eastlake graduate. Wendelken stepped it up with three birdies over the final three holes and capped the 18th with an eight-foot putt.
The win earned Wendelken an exemption into the Sahalee Players Championship July 7-9, as well as an invitation onto the WSGA Morse Cup team at the Pacific Coast Amateur Championship, played the end of July.
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