KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Cal teammates Aaron Du and Sampson Zheng capped off a powerful week at Kiawah Island with a 2-and-1 victory over Drew Kittleson and Drew Stoltz to win the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship on Wednesday.

The victory comes every week after the Golden Bears missed advancing to the NCAA championship by three pictures. Du and Zheng, each seniors subsequent 12 months at Cal, turned the primary No. 1 seed to win the title.

Du and Zheng took the lead for good on the par-5 eleventh on the Cassique course when Du hit a 52-degree wedge from 96 yards into the wind to 4 ft for birdie. Two holes later, Zheng hit 6-iron to simply inside 15 ft and transformed the birdie.

They seized management when Zheng hit 6-iron to 12 ft for birdie on the sixteenth to revive a 2-up lead, and Kittleson and Stoltz did not win the seventeenth to increase the match.

Kittleson, a reinstated newbie, was a runner-up for the third time in USGA occasions. He and Stoltz misplaced within the championship match of the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball final 12 months, and Kittleson was runner-up to Danny Lee within the 2008 U.S. Amateur.