It’s Bedlam: Fang, Summy advance to Western Am final
[Your Name Here]Writing from Glencoe, Illinois
Saturday, August 2, 2025
The No. 3 and No. 9 players in world amateur golf will play for the championship of the 123rd Western Amateur.
On the first tee at Skokie Country Club at 1:20 p.m.: Ethan Fang of Plano, Tex., and Oklahoma State (he’s No. 3), and Jase Summy of Keller, Tex., and Oklahoma (he’s No. 9).
In other words, golf’s version of Bedlam.
Fang summarily dispatched Jacob Modelski of Notre Dame and Noblesville, Ind., 5 and 3 with a performance featuring six birdies in 15 holes. Fang won the par-3 second with a par and was never headed against the No. 18 amateur in the world rankings.
Swanwick, ranked No. 93, had more trouble with Jase Summy, a senior at Oklahoma from Keller, Tex., Summy was 2 down at the turn and won the 13th and 15th holes with birdies, losing the 14th to Swanwick’s birdie, to narrow the gap to one hole down the stretch. But Summy took advantage of Swanwick’s botched 18th hole – deep rough off the tee, a second to the fairway, a third spinning off the green, then two putts once on it, to win the last with a bogey to Swanwick’s double. That forced an extra hole, which Summy won with a par thanks to Swanwick three-putting from above the hole on the maddeningly-sloped first green.
– Tim Cronin
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