Liu becomes youngest U.S. Junior champion

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07/24/2010 - Ada, MI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jim Liu earned a 4 & 2 victory over Justin Thomas on Saturday to become the youngest winner in the history of the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship.

Liu rallied from an early deficit and never trailed after the seventh hole of their scheduled 36-hole match play final.

The 14-year-old from Smithtown, N.Y., beat Tiger Woods' record to become the youngest winner in championship history.

Woods, who won three straight U.S. Juniors from 1991-93, set the previous mark at 15 years, six months and 28 days when he captured his first championship. Liu doesn't turn 15 until the middle of August.

Liu wrapped up the victory on No. 16 at Egypt Valley Country Club when Thomas, 17, conceded his competitor's three-foot par putt after missing a five-footer of his own.

Despite the match ending on the 34th hole, it was actually the smallest winning margin for a U.S. Junior final since 2006.

Things got started 30 minutes late because of a steady morning rain. Once the players got going Thomas took an early 2-up lead with a winning par at No. 1 and a winning birdie at No. 3.

Liu battled back, however, and built a 3-up lead after the first 18 holes.

Fighting to square the match by the eighth hole, Liu took his first lead with a birdie at the 10th, then extended the advantage to 3-up with back-to-back birdies at the 12th and 13th.

Thomas won the 14th with a birdie, but Liu restored his 3-up advantage with a birdie at the 16th and carried it into the midway break.

Thomas climbed all they way back to 1-down by making birdies at Nos. 2 and 4 after the match resumed. But he fell 2-down after losing No. 6 with a bogey.

Liu moved 3-up with a par at the 11th, but Thomas cut that lead to one with back-to-back birdies at the 12th and 13th holes.

The momentum didn't last, however, as Liu came back with a winning par at the 14th. He was conceded a 15-foot birdie putt at the 15th when Thomas could only manage a bogey, then closed the match out at the next hole.

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