Dallin Weierholt wins Hideout Amateur, two teams tie for Shootout title

by Jeff Simon
Hideout Golf Club PGA Professional
The Hideout Golf Club made quite a first impression on Dallin Weierholt. He did the same to the rest of the field this past weekend at the annual Hideout Shootout and Amateur.
The 22-year-old from Saratoga Springs, UT, in his first visit to Monticello, captured the 36-hole Amateur on Saturday and Sunday, July 26-27 with a two-day total of 151.
Weierholt opened the tournament with a 4-under-par 68 on Saturday and followed it up with a 73 on Sunday. The total gave him seven-shot victory over Boston Dixon who plays out of Green Springs Golf Club in Washington.
“This course is so good,” Weierholt said. “It’s very difficult and every hole is so different. It’s absolutely a hidden gem. I would have never guessed it would be so nice.” In difficult, windy conditions on Saturday, Weierholt put together the best round of the tournament.
He did it playing fairly conservatively, using his 4-iron to hit low shots under the wind on almost every tee shot on the par fours and par fives. His 4-under-par score the first day was five shots better than anyone else in the field.
Weierholt, who sported a Seattle Mariners hat on Saturday and a Seattle Seahawks hat on Sunday, said he was perfectly satisfied hitting approach shots on the greens and getting an occasional putt of ten feet or less for birdie.
There were no long putts for birdies or remarkable shots that got him the lead. It was just steady, patient golf for the Utah Valley University student.
“I hit a lot of good wedges that gave me a chance at birdie,” Weierholt said. Not only did Weierholt win the Amateur, he and partner Bowden Hunter were the net winner of the first flight with a net score of 9-under-par 63.
It was Hunter, who grew up in Monticello, who talked Weierholt into coming to Monticello for the weekend tournaments.
Locally, Rob Wilcox of Blanding was the net winner of the first flight and Traken Lee, who will be a senior at Monticello High School this year, was the second flight net winner.
Top-five finishers in their respective flights were Monticello’s Trez Perkins, Regan McDaniel, and Krieg Adair along with Blanding’s David Lacy and Jolly Bayles.
Trez Perkins and his father Kylor Perkins were one of the best teams in the best-ball format Shootout on Friday. The duo had the second-best round among the 84 teams in the field at 4-under-par 68.
They won the second flight by three shots over Michael Hinkle and Derek Daley who ended up winning the net division.
Tyler Weight and Zac Hansen, both from Utah County, shared the overall Shootout title with Joe Ligon of Page and Derek Ligon of Myrtle Beach, SC.
Both teams shot 5-under-par 67. Weight and Hansen have been one of the top Shootout teams for years winning multiple titles.
In the fourth flight, Lacy and Bayles were the low gross winners with Monticello’s Craig Leavitt and granddaughter Sara Teuscher finishing second. Dove Creek’s Quinton Martinez and Zach Martinez were third.
The low net winners in the fourth flight of the Shootout were Dove Creek’s Cody Alexander and Isaiah Martinez. Second was the mother-daughter team of Kimm Lacy and Mattea Lacy.