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University of North Carolina Athletics
Three Tar Heel Golfers To Participate In U.S. Amateur
August 19, 2005 | Men's Golf
Aug. 19, 2005
Chapel Hill, N.C. - Three members of the 2005-06 North Carolina men's golf team, Martin Ureta, Jonathan Jackson and Robert Riesen, will be among the partcipants of the 2005 U.S. Amateur which will be played August 22-28 at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa.
Stroke play of the famed event be take place on Monday and Tuesday (Aug. 22-23). Match play begins on Wednesday and continues through Sunday (Aug. 24-28). The championship course (East Course) at Merion Golf Club will feature a par 70, 6,846-yard layout. The Philadelphia Country Club (Spring/Mill Course) will be used for the first two days of stroke play and features a par 70, 6,967-yard layout.
Ureta, a rising junior on this year's golf team, qualified for this year's amateur by being a finalist at the 2005 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship in Lebanon, Ohio, earlier this summer. Ureta was the runner-up in that event, losing to Clay Ogden 1-up in the 36-hole final. Ureta, from Santiago, Chile, also played in the 2003 U.S. Amateur. He was an honorable mention PING All-America last year, the 2004 North and South champion and made it to the Sweet 16 of that event this year. He also picked up his first collegiate win last year, the 2004 Duke Fall Classic.
The other two Tar Heel participants, Jackson and Riesen, qualified at local qualifiers earlier in the summer. Jackson, a rising senior from Chapel Hill, tied for fourth place at the qualifier at Old Chatham Golf Club in Durham while Riesen, an incoming fresham from Pinehurst, tied for second place at the qualifier at Stonebridge Golf Club in Monroe. Earlier this summer, Jackson tied for runner-up honors at the Eastern Amateur in Portsmouth, Va., and tied for 11th place at the Cardinal Amateur in Greensboro. Riesen, who played at Pinecrest High School, was three-time conference player of the year, played in the U.S. Junior three years (2002, 2003, 2004) and was a quarterfinalist in `04. He was a member of the 2004 Canon Cup and named to the 2004 Rolex/Polo Junior All-America second team.
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