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The Gog Blog by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter @GogBlogGuy. With the US Amateur Havemeyer Trophy at Olympia Fields Country Club.

The week started with 312 golfers and now the 115th U.S. Amateur at Olympia Fields has only two players remaining.

Derek Bard from New York and member of the University of Virginia Golf Team, defeated Kenta Kinoshi from the Japanese National Team by a score of 3 & 2.

Bard will play the 36 hole championship match against Bryson DeChambeau of California and member of the Southern Methodist Golf Team. DeChambeau defeated fellow Californian Sean Crocker, member of the University of Southern California Golf Team by a score of 4 & 3.

The championship match will tee off at 8:30 Am on Sunday morning, weather permitting (rain expected early in the day and then clearing) for the first 18 holes. Then after a lunch break then second 18 holes will start around 1:30 local time.

In the first match between Kenishi and Bard, bard got an early lead with a birdie on the first hole and held the lead through the front nine.But Kenishi won two holes and had the match All-Square at 11.

The Par 4, 12th hole (this week) at Olympia Fields, where both semi-final matches changed in the direction of the winners.

Then on the 12th hole Kenishi got in trouble of the tee and that lead to Bard taking a 1 UP advantage.

Bard kept the momentum by then winning 13 and 15, when the players halved the 16th hole Bard had closed out the match.

DeChambeau had an early lead on Crocker, but gave up his early 2 UP lead by losing holes 5 & 6 to go back to All-Square.

DeChambeau regained the lead on the 8th hole, by making par, and then quickly went back to 2 UP after winning 9. Crocker made birdie with a short putt on 11, to close within 1 again, but from there DeChambeau turned it up a notch, winning holes 12-13-14.

With Crocker now Dormie, DeChambeau hit the green on the par 3 15th hole, Crocker hit his tee shot on the green and much closer to the hole, but it spun back off the green rolling into the fairway in front of the green. Both players from there made their par’s and the match was over.

For both players it will be the first time in a championship match, at a USGA Championship.

Click here to hear interviews with in order Derek Bard, Bryson DeChambeau, and Sean Crocker.

DeChambeau is the current NCAA Champion, with a win in the U.S. Amateur final match, he would be come only the fifth player in history to win the NCAA Championship and the U.S. Amateur in the same year, joining Jack Nicklaus, Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, and Ryan Moore.

For more online coverage of the U.S. Amateur please visit USGA.org.