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The Latest from the 2025 WIsconsin State Amateur Championship

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Rob Hernandez

10:03

Final group of the final round of the 124th State Am is on the course

9:59

Badger teammates Will Harned & Jacob Beckman in the next-to-last group with K.C. Nickel

9:45

Early indications are birdies will again be hard to come by

9:37

Vince Sigl, Adam Miller & Michael Addie

9:33

Sebastian Kasun has Mom on the bag again today.

9:27

9:26

The group that includes Max Brud, Sebastian Kasun & Cody Guetzke is on the first tee.

9:15

Fifth to last group is on the tee in this final round of the Wisconsin State Amateur

9:10

Your pin sheet for the final round

9:05

Defending champion, Garrett Jones said to tee off in round four of the Wisconsin state amateur

8:35

I maintain that par will be a very good score today and, for anyone within three shots of the lead, it could be a winning final-round score. The last three State Amateur champions have all been 30-somethings. The closest we have is 28-year-old Adam Miller, a Sand Valley caddie who finished runner-up at the State Am at the Sand Valley layout three years ago. With Drake Wilcox turning pro this year and Jacob Beckman having one more year at UW, I would look to them to fit the previous demographic of champion when golfers like Harrison Ott, Piercen Hunt, Thomas Longbella, Hunter Eichhorn, etc., collected their victories.

Stay tuned! Updates here all day!

Randy also reports that they played the National Anthem before the first groups teed off. Between the five players (three off the front and two off the back), there were four pars and one bogey. We'll see if that is a harbinger of scoring things to come.

8:30

From the great Randy Warobick, who is working as a rules official this week at the State Am, the trophy sits on The Lido starter's podium off the first tee. You can see the cloud cover. The cooler temperatures will be nice, but we'll see if any of the golfers notice while they grind their way through 18 more holes.

8:22

It is 73 degrees with 92 percent humidity in the Lake Arrowhead/Sand Valley area. Winds have shifted from a strong southerly wind Wednesday to a light west/southwesterly wind this morning. There is rain in the area and the forecast so we'll see how conditions impact play today at The Lido.

8:14

Good morning and welcome to Championship Thursday at the 124th Wisconsin State Amateur Championship. Gary and I will be heading over to The Lido shortly ahead of the 10:01 a.m. pairing of the final group.

There are 19 golfers within five shots of the lead and some very capable golfers -- including four-time Wisconsin men's player of the year Jack Schultz -- lurking six shots back.

*** Thursday, July 24 ***

Rob Hernandez

5:46

5:27

5:13

Course average today was 77.77 -- higher than Monday and barely lower than Tuesday with more than half the field having been cut. Can't wait to see what Thursday holds.

5:12

Nickel, a rising sophomore at Siena (N.Y.) College, is tied for second with Milwaukee's Garrett Schultz, an industrial engineer who had the low round of the day (1-under 71) and Badgers golfers Jacob Beckman of Middleton and Charlie Erlandson of Madison.There are 23 golfers within six shots of the lead.

5:09

Wilcox plans to turn professional for the Wisconsin State Open so, after taking the lead into the back nine last year at the Legend at Merrill Hills in Waukesha, this will be another opportunity to exit the amateur ranks as a State Amateur champion.

5:07

Quick update after the chaos of the final groups finishing: Drake Wilcox and K.C. Nickel each finish bogey-bogey-par and, despite a 75, Wilcox will take a one-stroke lead into the final round.

3:34

Wilcox and Nickel both bogey. Wilcox is now 1-under and Nickel even for the week.

3:32

And the Thomson Twins (no, they are not twins nor are they related) finally got to play together. Iron River, Mich. golfer Nathan Thomson and Badgers associate head coach Ross Thomson

3:28

3:27

The flags are moving but the leaderboard is not. It’s still Drake Wilcox and KC Nickel 1-2

1:44

Just saw Drake Wilcox double-bogey 9 to go from 4-under to 2-under. K.C. Nickel gets up and down from behind the green to save par and stay at 3-under

1:23

I saw KC Nickel make Birdie on number seven, but then he threw putted from behind the hole on number eight to fall one shot behind Drake Wilcox, who also birdie number seven and part number eight. He is four under, nickel is three under.

12:54

During the third round down to four golfers under par

12:23

Badgers golfer Will Harned for birdie to get to 1-under and just two back.

12:07

as hard as the wind is blowing right now, probably 20 to 25 miles an hour, be fun to screenshot this stuff every five or 10 minutes where where? Where are you goingfor the next three or four hours

Gary D’Amato captured Ryan Farris‘s predicament quite well. He made birdie while KC Nickel up and down from behind the green to save par to wind up tied with Drake Wilcox, who made birdie.

12:04