Playing The Home Course Tuesday, Rice senior golfer Michael Whitehead shot a 78 to finish his first U.S. Amateur Championship with a two-round score of 166. The Sugar Land native will not make the cut and advance to medal play which begins Wednesday at Chambers Bay in University Place, Wash.

Whitehead began the tournament with an 88 at Chambers Bay on Monday. While par at Chambers Bay was 71 the course yielded an average score of 79.872 during the first round of the U.S. Amateur on Monday.