Northwestern University Athletics
Tom Johnson Loses in First Round at U.S. Publinx
7/11/2001 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
July 11, 2001
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Tom Johnson fell in the first round of match play at the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship Wednesday, 3-and-2, to Michael Austin of Burton, Mich.
Johnson had bettered Austin by five strokes in the two rounds of stroke play Monday and Tuesday at the par-71 Pecan Valley Golf Club in San Antonio, but that was no consolation in the match-play competition. Austin moves on to Thursday morning's second round and a meeting with Jason Winter of Camarillo, Calif.
The U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship is one of 13 national championships sponsored by the United States Golf Association (USGA). It is open to amateur golfers who, since Jan. 1, 2001, have been bona fide public course players and have not held privileges of any course that does not extend playing privileges to the general public, or privileges of any private club maintaining its own course and hold a USGA Handicap Index not exceeding 8.4. A bona fide public course player may hold incidental privileges of a course not open to the public when such privileges are provided by (1) an educational institution at which he is a student, or (2) a federal armed service of which he is member, or (3) an industry by which he is employed.
