Adrien Dumont de Chassart didn’t like the way things were looking at Purdue’s Kampen Course on Saturday morning. He played his first 12 holes of a 36-hole day at the Golfweek Purdue Amateur in 2 over.
“I made some adjustment of my putting and started putting better,” the Illinois junior said.
From there, things got considerably better. He cut out the bogeys, played the next six holes in 2 under, the went bogey-free on the second 18 for a second-round 67.
“Today one of my goals was to play a bogey-free card again and that’s what I did,” he said of a final-round 68 that sealed a four-shot win over Nico Lang and James Imai.
It was a grind at the Kampen Course, Dumont de Chassart said, even though the weather was nearly perfect and the greens were rolling nicely.
Scores: Golfweek Purdue Amateur
Despite the fact that Big 10 teams are not competing this fall, the German Dumont de Chassart is seeing plenty of on-course action. After going home for the summer, where he played the GTGA Invitational, he came back to play the U.S. Amateur in August. He finished 80th at Bandon Dunes, missing the match-play cut.
But since then, Dumont de Chassart has finished third in a GCAA Amateur Series event at the University of Illinois Golf Club in September and 11th at the Golfweek Indiana Amateur last week.
“I came back on campus, practiced hard with my teammates,” he said. “I played two tournaments before this one. I played pretty good in one, struggled in the other one and made some good adjustments before this one and it paid off.”
Lauren Hartlage is improvising similarly. The fifth-year Louisville senior returned this year as an Honorable Mention All-American but the ACC is not competing in fall golf, either.
After a summer lineup that included the North & South Women’s Amateur, Ladies National Golf Association and U.S. Women’s Amateur, Hartlage teed it up among a collegiate field last month at the Golfweek Caledonia Amateur. She finished seventh.
At Purdue’s Ackerman-Allen Course, Hartlage fired rounds of 68-67-74 for a one-shot win over Irene Kim.
“It’s awesome being able to finally able to play some more collegiate athletes, and a lot of good players here for sure,” she said of the confidence this title brings.
Hartlage hit the ball well both days at Purdue, but struggled with her putter on Sunday. If there’s a silver lining, it’s that she has the time to go home to work on the weaknesses.
“It’s been tough not being able to play with the team but we’ve still been having practices and workouts and still working on our games and it’s good to have a couple of these tournaments in there so we’re working toward that and being able to fix the things that we might not be able to if we had a season.”
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