After shooting an even-par 70 Monday, Lancaster's Brandon Detweiler gave a repeat performance Tuesday, shooting 70 at Pinehurst, N.C. Resort and Country Club during round two of the U.S. Amateur Golf Championship.
Detweiler closed the stroke play phase of the tournament in a 10-way tie for 10th place, six shots behind leader Robbie Fillmore of Provo, Utah. Zak Drescher, also of Lancaster, shot 6-over par 76 Tuesday to finish with a two-day total of 155, 10 shots off the cut.
Detweiler, the 19th overall seed, will face No. 46 seed Conrad Shindler (73-70—143) of Westlake, Texas at 12:10 p.m. today in the first round of match play.
Detweiler opened with par on the first and moved to 1-under par on the round with a birdie on the 469-yard, par-4 second hole. After a par on the third, Detweiler birdied the 565-yard, par-5 fourth hole to get his round to 2-under par. Detweiler would par the last five holes of his front nine to finish with 33 on the opening nine.
Detweiler gave shots back to par on the back nine, bogeying the par-4 12th and par-3 15th to finish again at even par.
Drescher started his round with a birdie on the 398-yard, par-4 opening hole of Pinehurst No. 4. He bogeyed the par-4 fourth hole and par-4 seventh hole to go out with a 36.
On the back nine, Drescher was four-over for the round after a double-bogey at the par-4 13th hole but would birdie the 378-yard, par-4 15th. Drescher bogeyed No. 16 and 18 to close with 76 and miss the cut.
Fillmore, who never touched a club during two years away from golf, shot 5-under 65 on Tuesday.
The lowest score in two days of qualifying came on the No. 4 course at Pinehurst and followed Fillmore's opening 69 on Pinehurst No. 2, giving him a total of 6-under 134.
Fillmore leads the group of 64 players who will start the match-play portion today. The final two qualifiers will be determined in a playoff among 26 players who tied at 5-over 145.
A junior at BYU, Fillmore left golf behind during his Mormon mission to Chile but quickly made up for lost time when he returned in 2006. He went to the golf course about three hours after his plane landed in Salt Lake City.
Fillmore finished two strokes better than first-round leader Wesley Bryan, an 18-year-old South Carolina freshman who shot 1-under 69 on Pinehurst No. 4.
Among those also moving on were top-ranked amateur Danny Lee (141), Kevin Tway (143) and Jamie Lovemark (143), runner-up at the North & South Amateur earlier this summer at Pinehurst and one of the top college golfers in the nation.
Brady Exber, a 52-year-old member of the Southern Nevada Golf Hall of Fame, was the oldest to advance. He made it through qualifying for the first time in his fourth U.S. Amateur, narrowly missing a hole-in-one on his final hole, the par-3 ninth at Pinehurst No. 2. His 7-iron caught the left lip of the hole and rolled a couple of feet past.