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MIDWAY \u2014 The annual Utah Men\u2019s State Amateur is supposed to be a young man\u2019s golf tournament to win, but organizers apparently failed to get that message across to 38-year-old Cameron Crawford this week.<\/p>\n

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Crawford, a former Utah Tech golfer when that St. George institution was known as Dixie State College 16 years ago, won both his matches on Friday at Soldier Hollow Golf Club \u2014 including one that went five extra holes \u2014 in the quarterfinals and semifinals despite entering the day as the only golfer older than 25 remaining in the longest continuously held golf tournament in the world. <\/p>\n

Crawford won both his matches in spectacular fashion, albeit in entirely different ways. After he outlasted BYU sophomore Jackson Mauss with a par on the 23rd hole of their quarterfinal match, he edged Utah State golfer Noah Moody in the semifinals by making an eagle 2 on the par-4 18th hole.<\/p>\n

After Moody squared the match with a birdie on No. 17, Crawford drove the green on the 347-yard, downhill 18th hole and made a 10-footer for eagle to win it.<\/p>\n

On the other side of the bracket stands the defending champion, Arizona State sophomore Bowen Mauss, a Draper native and former Corner Canyon High star. Bowen is the younger brother of Jackson, who came up two wins short of engineering the first matchup of brothers in State Am finals history.<\/p>\n

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Mauss is Boss: Draper’s Bowen Mauss wins State Am title at Logan CC<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Bowen Mauss, who won the 127th State Amateur title last year at Logan Country Club, defeated two fellow collegians Friday to advance.<\/p>\n

The 36-hole championship match pitting Bowen Mauss and Crawford will begin at 7:30 a.m. Saturday and will be contested entirely on Soldier Hollow\u2019s Gold Course.<\/p>\n

Returning to defend his title \u201cis definitely something that I wanted to do,\u201d Bowen Mauss said after rolling past Lehi\u2019s KJ Ofahengaue in the semifinals. \u201cI have no reason not to play in this. It is one of the best events of the year, and I want to win it as much as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bowen Mauss closed out Ofahengaue, who is transferring from Utah Tech to Utah Valley, 3 and 2 with a par on the 16th hole after Ofahengaue hit his approach shot into the weeks left of the par-3 hole and conceded the match. <\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I\u2019m really excited (to be in the championship match again),\u201d Bowen Mauss said. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the funnest matches you can possibly be in, and I hope to repeat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mauss\u2019 quarterfinal win in 19 holes over Layton\u2019s David Liechty, who is transferring from Utah Tech to BYU, was a rematch of last year\u2019s semifinal match at Logan CC and just as competitive. Liechty led by two holes on the front nine, the first time all week that Mauss has trailed in a match. But Mauss rallied to tie it with a birdie on 11.<\/p>\n

On the par-3 14th hole, Liechty took the lead again when Mauss missed a tricky 6-footer for par, and held it through the 17th hole. Mauss made a clutch putt on No. 17 to stay alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I was just hoping he\u2019d give me another chance, and I luckily made that \u2026 12-footer, and then I made a good birdie on 18, and, yeah, it was good,\u201d Mauss said.<\/p>\n

To win 18, Mauss had to drive the par-4 hole \u2014 just as Crawford would do some eight hours later \u2014 and get the easy birdie. Liechty missed the green left and lost the hole, and the lead, with a par.<\/p>\n

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On the first playoff hole, Liechty\u2019s tee shot was short and found the right rough.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou gotta be kidding, dude,\u201d he yelled at himself after what was ostensibly his only bad shot of the day. \u201cWhat are we doing?\u201d<\/p>\n

Mauss won the hole with a par when Liechty\u2019s 15-footer just missed, and moved on to the semifinals for the second straight year.<\/p>\n

All four quarterfinal matches went to at least the 18th hole, and two went beyond that, as previously noted.<\/p>\n

Crawford needed 23 holes to eliminate Jackson Mauss, and what a match it was. <\/p>\n

Jackson Mauss, a returned missionary who will be a sophomore at BYU this fall, made a birdie on the 18th hole to force extra holes, nearly driving the green and then getting up and down to prolong the match. <\/p>\n

Crawford looked dead on the second playoff hole, but rolled in a 20-footer for birdie to halve the hole.<\/p>\n

Twice on the next two holes, the 21st and 22nd holes of the match, Jackson Mauss figured a long birdie putt was going to drop, and started walking towards the holes only to see both attempts slide just past the hole.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I had made both of those,\u201d he acknowledged in the clubhouse after the match.<\/p>\n

On the fifth playoff hole, the par-4 fifth hole, Jackson Mauss hit his tee shot into a fairway bunker, then his approach settled off the green and above the hole. He couldn\u2019t get up and down from there \u2014 his 5-footer for par lipped out \u2014 and Crawford was the winner of the longest match to date in the tournament, a match that lasted a bit more than six hours.<\/p>\n

Moody fell behind Brigham City teenager Kanyon DeRyke by two holes early in their quarterfinal match, but finished with a flash, making an eagle on the aforementioned short par-4 18th to win 2 up. Coincidentally, Crawford turned the tables on Moody on the 18th hole in the semifinals.<\/p>\n

Moody was 4 up through 13 holes on DeRyke, but the Box Elder High star won holes 14, 15 and 16 to close the gap.<\/p>\n

Moody is the son of Riverside Country Club head professional Chris Moody and recently completed his sophomore season playing for Utah State after beginning his college career at North Idaho College.<\/p>\n

Ofahengaue never trailed in his 2 up victory over Carter Frisby in Friday\u2019s other quarterfinal match, but never had a lead larger than two holes against Lehi\u2019s Frisby, a former golfer at the University of Idaho.<\/p>\n

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