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In the men's US Am, with half of the field done with their first round, Michael Thorbjornsen is tied for the lead at 3 under. Our other Stanford golfer in the field, Karl Vilips, shot 2 over and will have to shoot par or better tomorrow to have any hope to be under the cut line. After two rounds, the top 64 players move to match play on Wednesday.

Thorbjornsen tied for medalist honors. Had a chance to win it himself, but scuffled his final hole of the day. Regardless, congrats to him and it shows he is in good form.

Vilips will be in a playoff to make it to match play - 15 guys vying for 10 spots. 

I assume that will happen early tomorrow before the match play. It's quite the scene - all 15 play the same hole. If say, 5 guys bogey the hole, they are eliminated and the rest move on to match play. If 6 bogey the hole, then the guys who parred or better move on and the 6 bogeys move on to the second hole - now playing for a single spot in match play. I witnessed this at the US Am in 2017 (there were three Stanford guys in the playoff); I think they had to go 5 holes to get it all sorted out.

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In the men's US Am, with half of the field done with their first round, Michael Thorbjornsen is tied for the lead at 3 under. Our other Stanford golfer in the field, Karl Vilips, shot 2 over and will have to shoot par or better tomorrow to have any hope to be under the cut line. After two rounds, the top 64 players move to match play on Wednesday.

Thorbjornsen tied for medalist honors. Had a chance to win it himself, but scuffled his final hole of the day. Regardless, congrats to him and it shows he is in good form.

Vilips will be in a playoff to make it to match play - 15 guys vying for 10 spots. 

I assume that will happen early tomorrow before the match play. It's quite the scene - all 15 play the same hole. If say, 5 guys bogey the hole, they are eliminated and the rest move on to match play. If 6 bogey the hole, then the guys who parred or better move on and the 6 bogeys move on to the second hole - now playing for a single spot in match play. I witnessed this at the US Am in 2017 (there were three Stanford guys in the playoff); I think they had to go 5 holes to get it all sorted out.