Broomfield’s Steve Ziegler completed a sweep of Colorado’s two biggest amateur golf tournaments Sunday after he carded a second consecutive round of 4-under-par 67 to win the Colorado Golf Association Stroke Play Championship at Lakewood Country Club.
Ziegler, who also won the CGA Match Play title in July, became the first player to win both events in the same year since Brandt Jobe in 1985.
Ziegler finished at 11-under 273, three strokes ahead of former University of Colorado golfer Tom Gempel, who also finished second at Match Play.
A junior-to-be at Stanford and former two-time state prep champion at Legacy, Ziegler had to rally past 15-year-old Wyndham Clark of Cherry Hills.
Clark held the final-round lead through the front nine, but he bogeyed Nos. 10 and 11. Ziegler then holed a 23-yard bunker shot on the par-5 12th for eagle to take a three-shot lead. Clark fell to third place, tied with Denver’s Jon Lindstrom at 278.
Ziegler joins a 72-year-old list of past CGA Stroke Play champions that includes Hale Irwin, Steve Jones and Les Fowler.
Former Ram misses cut.
Former Colorado State athlete Rob Watson missed the cut in qualifying rounds for the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the IAAF World Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Berlin. Watson, racing for Canada, finished in 8 minutes, 44.73 seconds.
Wyoming diver 12th at nationals.
University of Wyoming diver Mark Murdock finished 12th in the platform board event at the National Diving Championship in Tallahassee, Fla.
