A long day of grinding golf ended the best way it could for Todd White.

He survived his morning match and breezed through his round of 16 match to be one of eight golfers left competing for the US Senior Amateur championship.

The morning match for White pitted the Spartanburg High School golf coach against the most recent winner of the British Senior Amateur championship, Brent Patterson from New Zealand.

In White’s first match in the round of 64 on Monday he took an early lead, but spent much of the match one-down., He finallye was able to tie Jerry Gunthorpe on the 17th hole and win the match on gthe final hole.

In his round of 32 match against Patterson, 18 holes was not enough..

For the second day in a row, White or his opponent never led by more than i-hole.

The 2013 Walker Cup team member trailed by a hole until his par on 16 evened the match. It would stay that way through the end of regulation and the first two playoff holes.

White was able to claim his second win with a par on the 21st hole.

The extra holes and the pressure of two straight tight matches didn’t seem to bother White in the afternoon round of 16 match against Ken Wade from Washington.

Wade, the 48th seed, in the tournament had won his morning match 4 & 3 to advance.

After a back and forth start White took the lead for good on the 5h hole and never looked back.

At the turn he held a 3 up advantage and closed out the match with a birdie on the 14th hole for a 5&4 victory.

White and his opponent, Mike Henry from Bloomington, Indiana, will be first off the tee at 7:15.in the quarter-final round.

Henry like White had an easier time in his round of 16 match taking a 4 &3 deciduous,

Scores from the USGA Senior Amareur https://championships.usga.org/ussenioramateur/2023/scoring.html