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The Gog Blog by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy, reporting all week from Olympia Fields Country Club, site of the 115th U.S. Amateur Championship.

The 115th U.S. Amateur Championship at Olympia Fields is winding down the field that 312 players on Monday, it’s now down to 8 as the sun sets on Thursday night.

The championship is on schedule after some early week weather delays, and no more are expected. The round of 32 and the round of 16 were both played on Thursday.

The top 16 seeds didn’t fare all to well, in fact headed into the match play, the 60+ seeds were doing better that the top 16.

The afternoon matches featured two of the already named Team USA Walker Cup players, Bryson Dechambeau and Maverick McNealy, both of California. DeChambeau of the SMU golf team in Texas, and McNealy a member of the Stanford University golf team.

McNealy got out to the early lead going 1 UP after and 1 hole and 1 UP again agter 3 holes. But DeChambeau made birdie on the par 3, 4th hole to square the match. DeChambeau took the lead on 7. The match went All-Square after a McNealy par won the 10th hole. But Dechambeau won three of the next four holes to take a lead he would not give up in route to a 3 & 2 win.

For the Illinois local players the day saw all of them head for the exits at Olympia Fields. Bloomington’s Alex Burge from the Illinois golf team was fighting to stay alive on 18, when his opponent Kyle Mueller holed a 65 foot putt with several feet of break to win the match. Moments later Burge’s Illinois teammate Tomas Detry from Belgium rallied to force extra holes, but lost his match on the 19th hole.

Illinois Open Champion David Cooke from Bolingbrook lost 2 UP to David Oraee, Cooke took the match to the 18th green, but when he missed his birdie and par putt the match was decided.

The lone Illinois player to make it out of the round of 32 was Bloomington’s Todd Mitchell a 3 & 2 winner in the morning. But in the afternoon Mitchell was quick to say he didn’t play his best golf in a 4 & 3 loss to Matthew Perrine of Austin Texas.

Mitchell was proud to be the last mid-amateur aged player in the field at 37. While he would have like to advanced further, he was proud of what he accomplished.

Click here to hear interviews with David Cooke and Todd Mitchell about their matches at the U.S. Amateur on Thursday.

Quarterfinal matches start at 1 PM on Friday, Semi-final matches at 8 Am on Saturday, and at 8:30 Am on Sunday for the 36 hole championship match.

For further coverage of the US-Amateur online visit UGSA.org.