August 2021 Ohio Golf Journal

115th Ohio Amateur Results After Ashland’s Max Watson and Dhaivat Pandya, from Dayton, finished the Ohio Amateur tied at three-under par, Watson won the playoff to win the 2021 Ohio Amateur at Avalon Golf & Country Club. Pandya a senior at Maryland University had made five birdies on the back nine of Avalon Golf Club to get himself into the playoff. Watson made a bogey at the 15th, bounced back with birdies at both 16 and 17 before a double-bogey at the final hole left him tied with Pandya. Watson, a redshirt freshman at Eastern Michigan University, started the 72nd hole with a two-shot lead and needed only a bogey to win outright, but his ensuing double-bogey made the playoff a necessity. Bill Williamson from Cincinnati missed out on the playoff when he bogeyed both 17 and 18 to finish solo third. Cade Breitenstine a member of the Kent State Golf Team tied for fourth with 2021 OHSAA Division I State Champion, Jordan Gilikison, who will be joining Breitenstine at KSU, Luke Wells, a junior at Rutgers, and Ken Keller fromYoungstown State. Ohio Golf News 2021 Ohio Amateur Top 10 1 Max Watson 2 Dhaivat Pandya 3 Bill Williamson T4 Cade Breitenstine T4 Jordan Gilkison T4 Ken Keller T4 Luke Wells 8 Josh Gilkison 9 Tom North T10 Drew Salyers Ashland Dayton Cincinnati Akron Springboro Youngstown Springfield Springboro Bowling Green Howard 68 – 73 – 72 – 72 = 285 70 – 72 – 75 – 68 = 285 70 – 74 – 71 – 71 = 286 69 – 72 – 74 – 72 = 287 70 – 70 – 74 – 73 = 287 71 – 77 – 67 – 72 = 287 69 – 76 – 70 – 72 = 287 73 – 69 – 71 – 75 = 288 73 – 72 – 75 – 69 = 289 79 – 72 – 69 – 70 = 290 Ohio Golf Journal