 Cameron
Knight defeated Brent Dorman 1 up in the final match
to win the Florida State Amateur Match Play
Championship at the Country Club of Ocala.
After winning four matches each, Cameron Knight, of Dade
City, faced Brent Dorman, of Ocala, in the final
match of the Championship. Dorman, a two-time Country
Club of Ocala Club Champion, birdied the first hole to
take a quick lead. The 2003-2004 Florida Junior Tour (FJT)
Player-of-the-Year Knight said, “I just wanted to play
my game. I knew everyone was rooting for Dorman and the
pressure was on him.”
Knight went on to make back-to-back birdies on holes
three and four to take the lead 1 up. When Knight made
bogey on the seventh hole and Dorman followed with a
birdie at eight, the lead changed again and Dorman was
now 1 up. On the back nine, Dorman bogeyed 10 and 12 and
Knight birdied 13 to reverse the lead and to go 2 up. On
the 17th hole, Knight made bogey while Dorman made a
tremendous recovery for par to extend the match to the
18th. On the par five 18th hole, with Knight one-up,
both players hit their approach shots to seven feet.
Knight missed his birdie attempt that would have closed
out the match. Moments later, Dorman narrowly missing
his birdie putt that would have squared the match and
Cameron Knight became the Champion.
“This win gives me a lot of confidence that I hope to
carry over to my first season at Florida State
University,” said Knight. “I played solidly and was out
there to do the best that I could.” Knight upset top
seed and defending Champion Kelly Gosse in the
semifinals en route to playing Dorman in the finals. On
the FJT, Knight won two events and finished in the top
five seven other times.
The Country Club of Ocala hosted the Amateur Match Play
Championship on August 10-13. The Country Club of Ocala
is a tremendous supporter of amateur golf and the
Florida State Golf Association. The Match Play
Championship takes a field of 96 players to make up five
flights. All players were guaranteed an 18-hole seeding
round and at least one round of match play. After the
seeding round, the field was broken into a Championship
flight of 32 players and four additional flights of 16
players. A winner was decided in each of the five
flights. All non-exempt competitors played an 18-hole
stroke play seeding round on Thursday, August 10 to
determine their flights. Players earned exempt status by
one of three categories, 2005 Mid-Amateur Champion, 2006
State Amateur Champion or 2005 Match Play Semifinalists.
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