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NBC Sports
6 days ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Top-ranked amateur Miles Russell survives upset bid in opening U.S. Junior match
The top-ranked player in junior golf was on the ropes Wednesday at the 77th U.S. Junior Amateur. Miles Russell, the hotshot 16-year-old from Jacksonville Beach, Florida, who is also ranked 18th in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, drew Jackson Ormond in the opening round of match play at Trinity Forest in Dallas. It was Ormond, the 2026 Florida commit from Webster, New York, who an evening earlier had birdied his penultimate hole of stroke play to move the cut line and ensure that there would be no match-play playoff for the first time since 2008. That momentum carried over for Ormond, who jumped on Russell, a recent Florida State commit for 2027, taking a 2-up lead after just three holes. Russell trailed for much of the match, including 2 down with three holes remaining. He clawed back with a birdie at the par-5 16th and then drained a birdie bomb from nearly 40 feet at the par-4 18th to force extra holes. Two holes later, Russell was advancing to Thursday's Round of 32, where he'll face Lucas Latimer, an incoming freshman at D-III Mary Hardin-Baylor who was one of nine Texans to make match play this week. Texas claims eight of the last 25 U.S. Junior titles with its winners during that span including Jordan Spieth (twice), Scottie Scheffler and Will Zalatoris. Two other Texans, Henry Guan and Luke Colton, won early matches on Wednesday. Guan, a reclassified 2025 signee for Oklahoma State, took down medalist Mason Howell, a Georgia commit, 1 up, ensuring that Matthew Rosenfeld, another Texan, is still the last medalist to go on to lift the U.S. Junior trophy (2000). Guan advances to meet Chase Bauer, a 15-year-old from Gotha, Florida, in the Round of 32. Bauer, a 2028 recruit, upset defending champion and incoming Florida freshman Trevor Gutschewski, 3 and 1; Bauer won a Florida Junior Tour major at the Gators' home club, Mark Bostick Golf Course, in January. Colton, a Vandy commit who is ranked 25th in WAGR, was 3 up through three holes before Jace Benson rallied to tie the match after 13 holes. Colton eventually won, 2 up, and will face yet another Texan, Texas A&M signee Shiv Parmar, in the next round. The third top-50 amateur in the field, Tyler Watts, made easy work of Indonesia's Rayhan Abdul Latief, who is ranked No. 118 in WAGR. Watts won, 8 and 7, to continue his hot summer, which has included a record-breaking win at the Sunnehanna Amateur, top-10 at the Northeast Amateur and runner-up at the North and South Amateur. Watts, a Tennessee commit for 2026, was runner-up to Gutschewski at last year's U.S. Junior. More than half of Wednesday's 32 matches are still undecided. Check back for updates...
Irish Examiner
20-06-2025
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
Andrew Ormond finding his feet in the Tipperary senior ranks
Such are the competing narratives in the Tipperary attack, the achievement of Andrew Ormond is finding space to tell and have his story heard, never mind finding space in the company of Cian Galvin and Tadhg de Búrca to torment and thrive. There is Darragh McCarthy's debut summer of red mist and razor accuracy. There is John McGrath's rejuvenated summer of relentless green. There's older brother Noel's summer of record appearances and ageless vision. And we could hardly omit Jake Morris' coming-of-age summer. And so you'd think, from that, that the Tipp forward unit was already busy enough and sufficiently stuffed with championship plotlines and performers. Think again. Andrew Ormond's story, up until 6pm on May 10, was of a decorated underage talent that failed to achieve the senior breakthrough. His story was that of a Tipp minor, a Harty Cup and Croke Cup winner with Our Lady's Templemore, all in 2017, and a Munster and All-Ireland U20 winner in 2019. From 1-2 in the 2019 U20 final victory over Cork and 1-3 in the Munster U20 final defeat to the same opposition a year later, Liam Sheedy saw enough to bring Ormond into the senior panel in 2021. It was, however, four seasons later in February 2024 before his senior competitive debut arrived. His 2024 championship involvement, meanwhile, amounted to 20 minutes at the end of a Limerick lashing and a first start for their already-eliminated final-round clash against Clare. Forgive the chronological nature of the piece thus far but it is necessary to paint the clearest picture possible of his silverware-laden teenage years, his in-the-wilderness early 20s, and his stunning senior announcement of recent weeks. He started Tipp's first two League games of 2025 and didn't start again for another 97 days until the aforementioned May 10. A fortnight earlier he was the first sub introduced against Cork in a game long gone from them. In 31 minutes on the field, the JK Brackens clubman had four possessions. A goal shot saved, a point, a handpass intercepted, and a wide. Nothing spectacular there and yet still enough felt Cahill to promote him for the must-win spin to Ennis. From centre-forward, he had six first-half possessions. Two goals, a secondary assist and defence-opening pass for John McGrath's opening goal, and an assist to Morris for a goal shot that ended as a converted 65. Arguably more important was his contribution in the first 11 minutes to a second half where Tipp, against the elements, managed only three points. Ormond assisted the first, nailed the second himself, and was fouled for the third. Fast forward to the 70th minute and Tipp's lead wobbling at the minimum, Ormond was found drawing another foul, but this time way back in his own half. Ken Hogan was invited onto the Irish Examiner Dalo's hurling show podcast the Monday after to explain the Tipp result and explain the origins of Ormond's out-of-nowhere influence. 'He's highly rated in Tipp. Has all the underage medals. Low to the ground, great centre of gravity. Probably not the greatest finisher, they would say in Tipp. But by God he got his chances on Saturday and buried two goals. That's a huge fillip; you brought in a new guy in Andrew Ormond and you brought in the old guy in John McGrath, and both contributed hugely,' said the former Premier goalkeeper. That 'not-the-greatest-finisher' perception was further punctured a week later against Waterford. The centre-forward's numbers were incredible. Between the 15th and 20th minute, he laid off the final pass for a pair of John McGrath points, clipped his second point, and was fouled for another. Across six minutes early in the second period, he was fouled on three occasions, two of which were converted, and added to his own tally with another white flag. His numbers had Anthony Daly asking Liam Sheedy in the makeshift RTÉ studio, 'where have you been hiding this fella'? Across the two starts and 28 possessions, he registered 2-4 and was directly involved in another 1-10. 'He first came in in 2021, was in around the group, but never really featured. To see where he is now; the Clare match gave him massive confidence,' said Sheedy on a recent edition of the Examiner hurling podcast. Ormond and his underage buddy Jake Morris rotate and drift in and out of the No.11 slot. A double centre-forward if you will, even if at times neither are occupying that slot. Waterford were far too slow to either press up or sit a midfielder deep during their Round 4 defeat in Thurles. If Gavin Lee is retained at centre-back for Galway and is tasked with offering protection to an injury-hit full-back line not overloaded with pace, then a David Burke or a Ronan Glennon or whichever midfielder is not obsessed with pushing forward must be obsessed with limiting the influence of a confidence-high bolter whose hit 2-7 across his three starts this summer. 'We took our learnings from last year, said at the start of the year, this is the year now, there's no better time than the present, we're not looking back, it's all about looking forward now,' Ormond remarked following his man of the match display against the Déise. He was talking about Tipp's 2025 story. He could easily have been talking about his own.
The Irish Sun
20-05-2025
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
Andrew Ormond ignites Tipperary revival as patience pays off in style
ANDREW Ormond has had to be patient for his Tipperary opportunities. The livewire centre-forward started the first two league games this year but didn't get another start for three months. Advertisement 2 Andrew Ormond of Tipperary knows that patience is key as they hope for a long run in the All-Ireland 2 Andrew Ormond of Tipperary after the Munster GAA Championship clash against Waterford When it came He scored 0-3, assisted 0-2, and was fouled six times by the bamboozled Déise defenders. For More importantly, it secured their progress to the All-Ireland Series. Asked about those landmarks, Ormond replied: 'Look, 2019, I don't know what age I was. That's a long time ago. Advertisement READ MORE ON GAA 'We're just focusing on this year. We took our learnings from last year and said at the start of the year, this is the year now. 'There's no better time than the present. We're not looking back. It's all about looking forward now. 'Every game is going to be a titanic battle from here on in. We had to win today, and I'm fairly sure we're going to have to win the rest of the games we play as well for the summer to be as good as we want it to be. 'The buzz is good. It's a dream to be playing hurling with Tipperary, a dream to be playing in Semple Stadium. Today is a great day, but onwards and upwards.' Advertisement Most read in GAA Hurling It was a fantastic week for the whole Ormond family. Andrew's younger brother Jamie scored off the bench as Tipp won the Munster U20 hurling title against Clare on Wednesday. Ormond said: 'We're hurling mad in Templemore. The 20s had a super win the other night. We were delighted for them. Limerick GAA fans troll RTE pundit Donal Og Cusack after win over Cork 'We'll get behind them now for the All-Ireland coming up. Hopefully, the Tipp fans can stay coming to those games and we'll all get things back going the way they should be in Tipperary.' Ormond believes the group has built an impressive understanding, backed up by a powerful bench. Advertisement He added: 'I'm old enough and wise enough to know it mightn't happen like that every day. "I've got lucky the last two games,' 'I've great lads around me. Darragh (McCarthy) popped a few balls to me. Jason (Forde) as well. 'Lads are working so hard. On another day, it could be me popping the ball out, and we'd have other lads getting the scores. Advertisement 'It's a team effort. The subs that came on again, Oisín (O'Donoghue)'s goal, Seánie (Kenneally) getting on the ball, Séamus Kennedy, Noel (McGrath)'s point, we had that impact from the bench again. 'It was a great fillip last week against Clare. Again today, you could hear the Tipperary supporters. They really willed us over the line, and fair dues to everybody who came.'
Irish Independent
18-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
All the GAA action as it happened – Cavan shock Mayo as Tipperary and Limerick make All-Ireland play-offs
Tipperary are through to the All-Ireland playoffs at least after their first Semple Stadium championship win for six years. Not since their last All-Ireland winning year, when they beat Limerick in their last round robin game, has a home crowd celebrated in Thurles but here they were dominant and energetic as they withstood Waterford's best shots early on and in the third quarter to finish strong to win by 1-30 to 1-21. With 28,758 in attendance, the Tipp crowd, back in huge numbers, were treated to another stellar show from centre-forward Andrew Ormond who burned the Waterford defence with his pace and evasiveness to score three points but also create havoc. With Bryan O'Mara and Michael Breen so strong in defence and Robert Byrne restricting Dessie Hutchinson to a point, Tipp had a platform for their first championship win over Waterford since 2019. Waterford made a great start with Stephen Bennett deceiving Breen to whip in a goal after just 13 seconds and by the fourth minute they were 1-3 to 0-1 ahead, worrying times for Tipp. But they responded well and by the 17th minute Ormond had them level, 1-5 to 0-8. Waterford would lead once more but Tipp took over and were 0-16 to 1-10 ahead at half-time, a lead they stretched to six points by the 45th minute. But then Waterford hit them for six unanswered points, among them two frees which Bennett converted for apparent thrown balls seen by referee Sean Stack. Stack could well have given two penalties to Tipperary, one in the first half when Ian Kenny pulled down Ormond just on the line in the 30th minute. John McGrath tidied up for a point but it could have been more. And Kenny pulled down Darragh McCarthy in the second half for what could have been a penalty and black card with a converted McCarthy free scant reward for the opportunity created. McCarthy was back on the starting team after suspension and nailed 11 frees from 12. And he teed up Oisin O'Donoghue, just on the field in the 68th minute, for a goal that put the result beyond doubt as they re-established a six-point lead. For Waterford the challenge to escape Munster now rests on other results and also their ability to regroup and get a win against Cork in the final round. But for now Tipp, with their campaign complete, can look to a preliminary quarter-final or even a Munster final in three weeks' time.
Irish Independent
18-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
All the GAA action as it happened – Cavan shock Mayo as Tipperary ease past Waterford
Tipperary are through to the All-Ireland playoffs at least after their first Semple Stadium championship win for six years. Not since their last All-Ireland winning year, when they beat Limerick in their last round robin game, has a home crowd celebrated in Thurles but here they were dominant and energetic as they withstood Waterford's best shots early on and in the third quarter to finish strong to win by 1-30 to 1-21. With 28,758 in attendance, the Tipp crowd, back in huge numbers, were treated to another stellar show from centre-forward Andrew Ormond who burned the Waterford defence with his pace and evasiveness to score three points but also create havoc. With Bryan O'Mara and Michael Breen so strong in defence and Robert Byrne restricting Dessie Hutchinson to a point, Tipp had a platform for their first championship win over Waterford since 2019. Waterford made a great start with Stephen Bennett deceiving Breen to whip in a goal after just 13 seconds and by the fourth minute they were 1-3 to 0-1 ahead, worrying times for Tipp. But they responded well and by the 17th minute Ormond had them level, 1-5 to 0-8. Waterford would lead once more but Tipp took over and were 0-16 to 1-10 ahead at half-time, a lead they stretched to six points by the 45th minute. But then Waterford hit them for six unanswered points, among them two frees which Bennett converted for apparent thrown balls seen by referee Sean Stack. Stack could well have given two penalties to Tipperary, one in the first half when Ian Kenny pulled down Ormond just on the line in the 30th minute. John McGrath tidied up for a point but it could have been more. And Kenny pulled down Darragh McCarthy in the second half for what could have been a penalty and black card with a converted McCarthy free scant reward for the opportunity created. McCarthy was back on the starting team after suspension and nailed 11 frees from 12. And he teed up Oisin O'Donoghue, just on the field in the 68th minute, for a goal that put the result beyond doubt as they re-established a six-point lead. For Waterford the challenge to escape Munster now rests on other results and also their ability to regroup and get a win against Cork in the final round. But for now Tipp, with their campaign complete, can look to a preliminary quarter-final or even a Munster final in three weeks' time.
