After he birdied the final hole for a tie of the lead at the 112th B.C. Amateur Championship, Jordan Lu won an exciting, can’t-take-your-eyes-off-the-ball five-hole play-off to win the Bostock Trophy at the Seymour Golf and Country Club July 18.
After four rounds, Lu, a 17-year-old Prince of Wales graduate who moved from Taiwan to live with relatives, finished even-par at 284 to force the sudden-death play-off but he needed five more holes to clinch the win over Burnaby’s Michael Belle, 22.
Lu, who started the final day four strokes behind Belle, finally won the tournament on No. 10 with a putt for par and the title.
“Before [Belle] putt, I was thinking just [to] make my putt because I know he’s not going to miss, but after he missed it I thought, ‘OK, now I really have to get this,’” Lu told the B.C. Golf Association.
“In the fourth play-off I pulled my putt really hard, which was not good, so I was just trying to focus and make sure I made a good stroke. And I did.”
Lu, a member of the Marine Drive Golf Club, will compete for the University of Washington next year.
He will represent B.C. along with Belle and Vancouver’s Jacob Vanderpas, 19, who finished third, at the Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship in Winnipeg Aug. 4 to 7.
