{"id":50171,"date":"2026-08-14T03:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/50171\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T03:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:54:14","slug":"logan-reilly-goes-overtime-again-in-u-s-amateur-to-be-among-8-players-to-advance-at-merion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/50171\/","title":{"rendered":"Logan Reilly goes overtime again in U.S. Amateur to be among 8 players to advance at Merion"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) \u2014 Logan Reilly<\/a> and Carter Loflin each lost 2-up leads with two holes to play and atoned by winning their matches in extra holes Thursday at Merion, sending them to the quarterfinals of a U.S. Amateur that no longer has anyone from the top 10 in the world amateur ranking.<\/p>\n

Joining them will be Michael Lugiano, the Pennsylvania native who has won all three of his matches on the 18th hole to be among the final eight players.<\/p>\n

\u201cPretty nerve-wracking,\u201d said Lugiano, a junior at Liberty University. \u201cIt’s just been stressful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reilly, the Auburn<\/a> sophomore who won the clinching point for the Tigers when they captured another NCAA golf championship, three-putted the par-3 17th for a bogey and then took four shots to get down from the front of the troublesome 18th green.<\/p>\n

That sent his match with Oklahoma senior Ryder Cowan<\/a> \u2014 who shared low amateur honors in the U.S. Open<\/a> at Shinnecock Hills \u2014 back to the first hole. Both narrowly missed sharp-breaking birdie putts in the 12-foot range.<\/p>\n

On the par-4 second, Cowan’s drive found a bunker, he came up well short of the green and hit a bold flop over the sand to 15 feet. Reilly two-putted for par, and won the match when Cowan’s par putt drifted to the right. Cowan is No. 8 in the amateur ranking.<\/p>\n

Reilly now has won two matches that went extra holes, winning his first-round match in 19 holes.<\/p>\n

Loflin, who just finished his fourth year at Georgia, also gave away the final two holes with bogeys against William Jennings<\/a>, the junior at Alabama and No. 5 in the world amateur ranking. On the first extra hole, Loflin hit wedge to 5 feet for birdie to advance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was trying my hardest to shoot myself out of it,\u201d Loflin said. \u201cI hit a great wedge shot in there, and thankfully it (the putt) went in.\u201d<\/p>\n

The highest-ranked player remaining Thursday was Tyler Watts<\/a> at No. 3 in the world, an 18-year-old incoming freshman at Tennessee. He was 2 up early against Stanford junior Jay Leng Jr. until Leng won four of the next six holes and never trailed the rest of the way, winning 1 up.<\/p>\n

In other matches, Texas Tech senior Adam Bresnu<\/a> of Morocco, the first Arab-born player to make the cut on the European tour, overwhelmed Max Herendeen<\/a>, 5 and 4; Colorado senior Brandon Knight rallied for a 1-up victory over Gaven Lane; Jack Whaley of England, a senior at Florida State, cruised to a 4-and-3 victory over Christian Cavaliere; and Florida senior Jack Turner beat fellow Gator Joshua Bai of New Zealand, 5 and 3.<\/p>\n

At stake for the winner of the 126th U.S. Amateur is a spot in U.S. Open next year at Pebble Beach, and in the Masters and British Open if he stays an amateur.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

See AP\u2019s full golf coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) \u2014 Logan Reilly and Carter Loflin each lost 2-up leads with two holes to play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4253,19403,19405,5225,144,9704,14023,1288,19404],"class_list":["post-50171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-u-s-open-championship","tag-event_recap","tag-logan-reilly","tag-max-herendeen","tag-pga-u-s-open-06-18-2026","tag-pga-tour","tag-ryder-cowan","tag-tyler-watts","tag-u-s-open-championship","tag-william-jennings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}