Two-Time Amateur Champion Sigel Loses to Meeks; Alexander Out, Too

Two-time champion Jay Sigel and 1986 winner Buddy Alexander were ousted as the 88th U.S. Amateur Golf Championship field was trimmed from 32 to 8 players Friday.

Sigel, a Philadelphia insurance executive who in 1983 became the last man to successfully defend his U.S. Amateur title, needed 19 holes in his first match of the day for a 1-up victory over University of Washington junior Orrin Vincent, the 1988 Pacific 10 champion.

In the afternoon, Sigel went 21 holes over the Cascades course at The Homestead resort before losing to Eric Meeks, a recent Arizona graduate from Walnut, Calif.

Alexander, the golf coach at Florida, beat one of his Gator players, Chris DiMarco, by a 4-and-3 margin in the morning but was a 1-up loser in the afternoon to David Lind of Chicago. Lind won a playoff Thursday morning for the final spot in match play and then eliminated qualifying medalist Tom McKnight in the first round.