{"id":2447830,"date":"2019-08-21T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-golfer-lucas-lee-wins-montrose-tournament-with-long-birdie-putt-in-playoff\/"},"modified":"2019-08-21T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T01:12:00","slug":"aspen-golfer-lucas-lee-wins-montrose-tournament-with-long-birdie-putt-in-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-golfer-lucas-lee-wins-montrose-tournament-with-long-birdie-putt-in-playoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen golfer Lucas Lee wins Montrose tournament with long birdie putt in playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lucas Lee had never faced a pressure putt quite like this one and he made it look easy.<\/p>\n

The Aspen High School sophomore drained a 30-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to win the Black Canyon Invitational on Thursday, hosted by Montrose, for his first tournament win.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was awesome. I was going up against two seniors, so it was pretty cool,\u201d Lee said. \u201cI felt pretty confident when they both missed the green.\u201d<\/p>\n

The playoff hole was played on the Par 3 ninth near the clubhouse and a handful of onlookers. Competing against Durango\u2019s Ethan Whidden and Nathan Smith of Pagosa Springs \u2014 all three players shot 75 over 18 holes \u2014 Lee was the only one to hit the green off the ninth-hole tee box in the playoff.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey both chipped up, and then Lucas drained about a 25-, 30-foot birdie putt and ended it right there,\u201d AHS assistant coach Coulter Young said. \u201cIt was a great way to finish and it was really exciting because it was right there next to the clubhouse, so all the parents and other teams who were still there were able to watch. So it was almost like a little gallery for the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Skiers tied for second as a team with Gunnison, with both teams shooting 246. Durango won the tournament by shooting 231.<\/p>\n

Outside of Lee, it was a quiet day from Aspen, who sent what they are calling their \u201cVarsity B\u201d team to Montrose. Top players Jack Pevny and Nic Pevny did not compete.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think any of the players really had their best stuff, except for Lucas,\u201d Young said. \u201cThese kids are pretty good. They have the ability to go low, like Lucas did today. But they are not quite doing it on a consistent basis.\u201d<\/p>\n

They will have another chance at it Thursday when Montrose hosts a second tournament.<\/p>\n

Basalt also competed Wednesday in Montrose, with Blake Exelbert leading the Longhorns by shooting 7-over 77 to tie for fifth place. Tyler Sims and Braden Exelbert each shot 86 to tie for 22nd.<\/p>\n

Basalt finished in fourth place as a team, shooting a collective 249.<\/p>\n

acolbert@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aspen High SchoolCourtesy Lucas Lee had never faced a pressure putt quite like this one and he made it look easy. The Aspen High School sophomore drained a 30-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to win the Black Canyon Invitational on Thursday, hosted by Montrose, for his first tournament win. \u201cIt was awesome. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 12:27:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}