UPSETS UP AND DOWN THE BRACKET

Top-four seeds advance in an otherwise wild day in Men’s Champs

By Eric Morken emorken@echopress.com

The Men’s Championship Division had a little bit of everything on Wednesday during the opening round of qualifying.

Top-seeded Donald Constable overcame an early one-hole deficit in his match to move to the sweet 16. But there were plenty of seeding upsets throughout the bracket as 28th-seeded Mitch Holm beat fifth-seeded Geoff Klein, 25th-seeded Alec Heinen beat 8th-seeded Zak Jones, 24th-seeded Lincoln Johnson beat 9th-seeded Brian Choe, 23rd-seeded Ben Strauman beat 10th-seeded Kyle Cox, and 22nd-seeded Jacques Wilson beat 11th-seeded Jerry Rose. Secondseeded and defending champion Austin Vukovits also survived a scare in a 2-1 final.

Here is a look at how all the matches went before these players vie for a spot in the quarterfinals with matches starting back up at 1:35 p.m. from the first tee on Thursday. Constable def. Woodhull, 5-4

Alex Woodhull got off to a good start with a birdie win at No. 2 that gave him the early advantage against the 2010 champion in Donald Constable. That just ignited Constable, though. He countered by getting birdie wins at 3, 4, 6 and 7. Both players were on their game as Constable shot a 31 on the front to lead by two at the turn after Woodhull made him work for it with a 33.

Once on the back, Constable pulled away with three straight wins on 12, 13 and 14. Two

Ben of those came by birdies as Constable played a bogey-free round and shot 7-under through 14 holes.

Galvin def. Vanyo, 3-2

Josh Galvin will get the next shot at Constable as he beat