Match Play
- Updated: October 18, 2025
Travis tops defending champion, achieves breakthrough to Sunday. Wigington, McGatha and Wells also make semifinals.
County Match Play scores
NOTE: Seeds reflect where players finished in the 2025 Calhoun County Golf Tour points standings.
SATURDAY
First round
No. 4 Gary Wigington def. No. 40 Jeff Noah, 5&4
No. 15 Randy Lipscomb def. No. 16 Vance Lewis, 1 up (22 holes)
No. 10 Andrew Brooks def. No. 12 Greg Shultz, 5&4
No. 8 Jeremy McGatha def. No. 26 Cam Hurst, 3&2
No. 6 John Rollins def. No. 29 Mason Dennis, 4&3
No. 11 Dustin Travis def. No. 20 Robin Wood, 4&3
No. 19 Caden Wood def. No. 14 Dalton Chandler, DQ
No. 5 Tanner Wells def. Nio. 34 Justin Graveman, 4&3
Second round
Wigington def. Lipscomb, 3&2
McGatha def. Brooks, 2&1
Travis def. Rollins. 2&1
Wells def. Wood, 3&1
SUNDAY
Semifinals
Wigington vs. McGatha, 10 a.m.
Travis vs. Wells, 10:10 a.m.
Finals
TBD, 1 p.m.
By Joe Medley
East Alabama Sports Today
ANNISTON — Dustin Travis doesn’t consider himself the best match-play player round, but he’s a Calhoun County Match Play semifinalist for the first time.
Travis beat Robin Wood 4&3 in the first round then beat defending champion John Rollins 2&1 in the second round Saturday at Anniston Municipal.
Travis, who finished the 2025 Calhoun County Golf Tour 11th in points and holds the tournament’s No. 6 seed, will play Tanner Wells at 10:10 a.m. Gary Wigington will play Jeremy McGatha at 10 a.m. in the other semifinal.
Travis, whose best finish in a Tour points event was second place at Twin Bridges in 2023, will see Sunday at Match Play for the first time.
“I’m not a very good match play player,” he said. “I don’t make a ton of birdies usually, so I struggle a little bit in match play. …
‘It’ll be fun. There’s four good players playing on Sunday, as you’d expect.”
The County Match Play Championship is the County Tour’s de facto postseason all-star event. It seeds the top 16 points winners available to play. Of the top 16 in the 2025 points, 10 are playing on The Hill.
Wigington, who finished fourth in points, is Match Play’s top seed. Wells, who finished fifth in points, is the tournament’s No. 2 seed.
Rollins, sixth in points, was seeded No. 3 in Match Play, and McGatha (eighth in points) is No. 4.
Travis got his first Match Play match victory in the first round in 2023, beating Randy Lipscomb 6&5. He lost to McGatha in the second round.
Travis had four birdies on the back nine against Rollins on Saturday, clinching the match with birdies on Nos. 16 and 17.
Travis’ Match Play breakthrough comes on the heels of second place finishes in two club championships, finishing behind Brennan Clay at Cider Ridge and Cam Hurst at Pine Hill.
“I haven’t had a great year this year,” he said. “I have one good round just about every tournament we have. I don’t ever have two. I can’t ever put two days together.
“It’s the same thing with this. It’s always hard for me to have two good rounds of golf back to back, but I did today, for once.”
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