Denny McCarthy of Burtonsville fell in the second round of match play in the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship Thursday at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.
McCarthy lost 3 and 2 to Yosuke Asaji of Japan. McCarthy, a junior this fall at Georgetown Prep, lost three of the first four holes and never got closer than 2 down in the match.
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McCarthy qualified for match play by shooting a 72-74 — 146 in the opening rounds of metal play Monday and Tuesday, tying for 15th place in a field of 156 players. Locals Sean Bosdosh of Clarksburg (81-77—158), Paul Warnquist of Rockville (74-85 — 159), and Tyler Wingo of Fairfax (81-84 — 165) missed the cut. The top 64 players advanced to match play.
McCarthy, a member at Argyle Country Club, defeated Garrett Moss of Arizona in the opening round Wednesday, 3 and 1.
McCarthy had an incredible week last month (June 22-28) starting with a runaway victory at Columbia in the Frank Emmet Schoolboy (70-73-67 — 210), where he won by 14 strokes, following with a successful defense of his Middle Atlantic Junior title at Lakewood (73-70 — 143), and concluding with the Argyle stroke-play championship (67-63 — 130).
St. Maxens dazzles at Gorin
Colin St. Maxens of the District played 3-under-par for 13 holes and that’s all it took for him to roll to a 6 and 5 victory over Richie Steinwand of Silver Spring Wednesday in the 50th Bobby Gorin Memorial at Woodmont Country Club. St. Maxens, a member at Columbia and a recent graduate of the Maret School, will play at Pennsylvania next year.
In the 14-15 Division, Alex Church (Timonium/Calvert Hall) edged Keegan Boone (Bethesda/Gonzaga), 2 and 1, after upsetting medalist Maclain Huge (Lovettsville/Notre Dame Academy) in the semifinals, 5 and 4.
In the 13-and-under Division, T.J. Boyle (Laytonsville/Gaithersburg) defeated Jonathan Carr, 1 up.
It was the first Gorin played without patriarch Lou Gorin, who created the event in memory of his nephew, Bobby Gorin, an elite junior player who died in a car crash in his freshman year at the University of North Carolina. Lou Gorin died earlier this year.
Hoffman leads Virginias
Springfield’s Mimi Hoffman was one of the stars for a team of women from Virginia and West Virginia in their decisive 66.5-41.5 victory over their counterparts from North and South Carolina in the 53rd Virginias-Carolinas Women’s Team Matches at Snowshoe, W.Va. It was the sixth time in the last seven years Virginia has prevailed.
In the four-ball format, Hoffman teamed with three different players Monday-Wednesday with her and her mates accounting for 7.5 points. In each match, three points are up for grabs – one for each nine and one for the 18.
Other locals who played were Manassas’s Sherry Bowman (2.5 points) and Alexandrians Shelly Savage (6 points), Katie Cox (4 points), Susan Podolsky (3.5 points), and Linda DiVall (3 points).
