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Two years ago, Salt Lake City\u2019s Devin Tovey watched a lifelong dream of winning the Richard C. Kramer Salt Lake City Amateur golf tournament slip away, as teenager Bowen Mauss made a clutch 15-foot birdie on the 17th hole at Bonneville Golf Course and edged Tovey by a stroke to take home the trophy.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s why winning the 2026 City Am on Sunday night meant so much to the 32-year-old club-fitter at Impact Golf Center in Draper and part-time Bonneville employee.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, man, I can\u2019t even tell you how much this means,\u201d Tovey said. \u201cIt is just the monkey off the back.\u201d<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t come easily.<\/p>\n

After Tovey and Kenny Palmer both shot 6-under 138 in the 36-hole event, they began their sudden-death playoff on the easy par-5 1st hole.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOh, man, I can\u2019t even tell you how much this means. It is just the monkey off the back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 \u00a0SLC Amateur winner Devin Tovey<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tovey hit a 9-iron from 164 yards to within 5 feet of the hole, and made the eagle putt. Palmer hit a better drive and had about 150 yards to the hole, but his approach spun back and off the green. His par wasn\u2019t nearly good enough, and Tovey was able to scratch off the No. 1 item on his bucket list.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat has been the entire goal, to win this,\u201d said Tovey, who has been playing at the course near SLC\u2019s Hogle Zoo since he was 5 years old. <\/p>\n

\u201cAll my friends right here, they know how badly I wanted it. To finally do it, it is unreal. It is crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nikko Taggart made a birdie on the 18th hole to place third at 5-under, while Hayden Howell and Daniel Holmberg tied for fourth at 4-under.<\/p>\n

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Palmer, 40, lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, and spends his summers in Utah, playing out of Glenwild Golf Club. He plays in several USGA and UGA events each year and was second in the Utah Mid-Amateur and Utah Winterchamps this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery frustrating finish today, but excited for what is to come,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Palmer shot 64 on Saturday and entered Sunday with a one-shot lead over Taggart and a four-shot lead over Tovey, who played high school golf at Highland and college golf at Cameron University in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

Palmer was cruising Sunday until a double-bogey on the par-4 11th hole gave Tovey and the others some hope. Then on No. 17, the short, downhill par-3, Tovey hit his tee shot over the green and Palmer\u2019s tee shot settled on the green some 20 feet below the pin.<\/p>\n

Tournament over, right?<\/p>\n

Hardly.<\/p>\n

Tovey got up and down for the par, while Palmer 3-putted for a bogey, and there was a tie atop the leaderboard.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was surprised when he 3-putted, but, I mean, Bonneville\u2019s greens, they get a little bumpy,\u201d Tovey said. \u201cAnything can happen. Once he missed it, I was like, \u2018Oh man, now I gotta make mine.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Both golfers made routine pars on No. 18, and the City Am went to a playoff for the first time since 2021, when Cooper Jones defeated Zack Neff, also with an eagle on the first playoff hole.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was due. I was due,\u201d Tovey said, holding back tears, in what had to have been one of the most emotion-filled City Am finishes ever.<\/p>\n

With his PGA teaching professional, Terry Myers, looking on, Tovey took his instructor\u2019s advice and got aggressive on the playoff hole.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe talked a lot about just hitting stuff close,\u201d Tovey said. \u201cYou know, a lot of times, just going for it, being aggressive and playing to win. You can\u2019t have any regrets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not anymore.<\/p>\n

Tovey said next up on his bucket list is the Art City Amateur at Springville\u2019s Hobble Creek Golf Course. That 36-hole tournament is next weekend. His best finish there is third place.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, the State Am is the big one, but my expectations are not to ever (win it),\u201d he said. \u201cThere are so many good players in that field. Obviously, there were good players in this field, too. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat one is a little bit harder to win, but if I can win just the top two-day tournaments here in the state, I would consider that a great golfing career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richard C. Kramer<\/h3>\n

Salt Lake City Amateur<\/h3>\n

At par-72 Bonneville Golf Course<\/h3>\n

Championship Flight Results<\/h3>\n

138 \u2014 Devin Tovey (68-70), Kenny Palmer (64-74)<\/p>\n

(Tovey defeated Palmer in one-hole playoff for title)<\/b><\/p>\n

139 \u2014 Nikko Taggart (65-74)<\/p>\n

140 \u2014 Hayden Howell (71-69), Daniel Holmberg (70-70)<\/p>\n

141 \u2014 Benjamim Wright (70-71)<\/p>\n

142 \u2014 David Liechty (74-68), Ty Brady (74-68), David Jennings (73-69), Kent Karlstrom (72-70), Jack Kuemmel (71-71)<\/p>\n

143 \u2014 Stuart Gold (73-70), Dan Horner (73-70), Stockton Penman (71-72), Stephen Lindsey (68-75)<\/p>\n

144 \u2014 Peyton Hastings (73-71), Cameron Crawford (72-72), Tyler Ewell (72-72), Bryson Hirabayashi (72-72), Matthew Berzovich (72-72)<\/p>\n

145 \u2014 Jake DeBry (74-71), JT Timmons (72-73), Jaxon Erickson (71-74), Noah Moody (71-74), Jack Summerhays (70-75)<\/p>\n

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Flight 1 Low Gross<\/h3>\n

141 \u2014 Ty Anderson (73-68)<\/p>\n

Flight 2 Low Gross<\/h3>\n

151 \u2014 Spencer Hunt (77-74)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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