Marc Dull posted a historic score to complete a dominant week in the 106th Florida Amateur.
The 37-year-old, 6-foot-6 career amateur from Lakeland posted a final-round 70 at the Turtle Creek Club in Jupiter on Sunday and won by seven shots over University of North Florida junior Cooper Smith of Tampa (71) and incoming University of Florida freshman Jay Brooks of Boca Raton (69) at 17-under-par 271.
“This means a lot,” Dull told the Florida State Golf Association website. “This is the one I wanted and I’ve been close so many times.”
Dull, a past Florida Amateur and Mid-Amateur player of the year and a former Florida Southern player, had the lowest winning score in the tournament since Doug Sanders shot 270 in 1956 at the Tallahassee Municipal Golf Club. He also is the first Mid-Amateur (25 years or older) to win the Florida Amateur since Richard Maddox of Panama City in 2003 at Bay Hill.
Florida Amateur live scoring
Dull has won the FSGA Mid-Amateur and Mid-Amateur Stroke Play in 2018, among six statewide titles, but has come up short of the Florida Amateur until now. He lost in a playoff to Gabriel Lench in 2018 at The Concession in Bradenton.
Dull did not have a blemish on his card until a double-bogey 6 at the par-4 15th hole. It came in the middle of a run of birdies at Nos. 12, 14 and 16 and Smith and Brooks never applied enough pressure to make it matter,
Blanton Farmer (70) of Bradenton and Jonah Wasserstrom (74) of Hollywood tied for fourth at 9-under. Sam Nicholson of Atlantic Beach, a Providence graduate and a senior at the University of South Florida, didn’t make a birdie until the 15th hole and with a 75 fell into a tie for sixth at 6-under with Carson Enright of Longboat Key, who played college golf at Oregon State and the University of San Diego.
Previous Florida Amateur coverage
Round one: Lake City’s Matthew Soucinek, UNF assistant coach Jeff Dennis among Florida Amateur leaders
Round two: Brett Schell’s long-distance ace kicks a 66 and a sprint up the leaderboard
Round three: Lakeland’s Marc Dull remains in command, Nicholson in the hunt
T8. Jason Duff, Elkton 70–283T13. Carson Brewer, Ponte Vedra Beach 70–285
Jason Duff of Elkton, the defending Jacksonville Amateur Champion and a junior at UNF, shot 70 to tie for eighth at 5-under. Carson Brewer (70) and Sam Ohno (72), both of Ponte Vedra Beach, and Matthew Soucinek (73) of Lake City tied for 13th at 3-under.
Area results in Florida Open
T6. Sam Nicholson, Atlantic Beach 75–282
T8. Jason Duff, Elkton 70-283
T13. Carson Brewer, Ponte Vedra Beach 70–285
T13. Sam Ohno, Ponte Vedra Beach 72–285
T13. Matthew Soucinek, Lake City 73–285
T20. Brett Schell, St. Augustine 76–287
T32. Connor Holcroft, St. Augustine 71–289
T32. Brody Stevenson, St. Augustine 71–289
T32. Jeff Dennis, Jacksonville 72–289
T42. Davis Lee, Ponte Vedra Beach 76–292
T50. Chase Carroll, Jacksonville 75–294
T50. Cody Carroll, Jacksonville 73–294
T55. Joe Stepnes, Atlantic Beach 73–295
T72. Pete Catanzaro, Jacksonville 81–301
77. Alexander Ramos-Fort, Jacksonville 77–307
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Marc Dull of Lakeland fires lowest Florida Amateur score in 67 years