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MIDWAY — Nearly 800 golfers started out their journey to become the 2015 Utah State Amateur champion.
After 10 qualifying tournaments, the top 288 players arrived at Soldier Hollow Golf Course on Monday.
Jordan Rodgers survived them all by Saturday afternoon, a moment that was captured by KSL Sports in the video above as he traversed the weather, former collegiate rivals, and a previous amateur champion to finish No. 1 at the end of the long week.
The recent BYU graduate held off previous champion Darrin Overson of Provo, 3 and 1 during Saturday's 36-hole final match in Midway.
Overson went 1 up on the seventh hole with a birdie on the par-3, 204-yard hole and held the advantage until Rodgers' birdied No. 14 to put the duo back to all square.
Rodgers, who played in the NCAA Regional Tournament last spring for the Cougars, kept his 1 up lead through 18 holes before dropping back briefly and coming back to all-square 23 holes into the event.
But fatigue finally caught up to the 1998 amateur champion Overson, who conceded after Rodgers birdied four of the final eight holes. His birdie on the 35th hole fo the round gave him a three-hole advantage with one to play, and capped off his first Utah amateur championship.
Rain threatened for most of the week at Soldier Hollow, but the final round stayed warm and dry as the pair battled it out for the top spot in the Beehive State.
Rodgers defeated Utah State's Seokwon Jeon, 1 up in the semifinals, and Overson took down Utah's Brandon Kida to advance to the final.
Contributing: Sean Walker