Hokie ClubHokie golfer Drew Weaver shot a second round eight-over-par 78 and finished with a two-day total of 153 at the 2008 British Amateur Championship at Turnberry, Scotland. He finished stroke play tied for 102nd and missed the cut at the championship. Weaver, a rising senior from High Point, N.C., is the defending champion in the event.
Former teammate Jurrian van der Vaart advanced into the match play rounds with a two-day total of 147, tying for 15th place. Van der Vaart completed his eligibility in May, as he finished tied for ninth at the NCAA Men’s Golf Championship in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Van der Vaart, from Almelo, the Netherlands, will play his first round match at 1:35 p.m. local time Wednesday afternoon against Tommy Fleetwood of the United Kingdom.
The field of 288 competitors played two rounds of stroke play. Following completion of the second round, the top 64 players advanced to match play, which will culminate in a 36-hole final on Saturday.
In an update from an earlier report, upon further research, van der Vaart’s ninth place finish at the 2008 NCAA Championship was the third-best individual performance by a Tech golfer in the NCAAs. The top two finishes by Virginia Tech golfers in the NCAA Championship each were recorded by Tim Collins. Collins finished tied for fifth at the 1967 Championship at Shawnee-on-the-Delaware in suburban Philadelphia. Two years earlier, in the 1965 event in Knoxville, Tenn., Collins tied for seventh overall.