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The putt that BYU golfer CJ Lee was convinced he struck much too firmly found the hole, giving the Richard C. Kramer Salt Lake City Amateur a dramatic ending Sunday evening.

Lee's 30-foot birdie putt on No. 18 at Bonneville Golf Course also extended a couple of long-running trends in the City Am: The first-round leader rarely wins the tournament and a playoff hardly ever is required.

If not for Lee's heroic finish, a four-way playoff would have been necessary and Carl Jensen may have completed a hard-earned victory after following his opening 67 with a 74. Jensen settled for a tie for second place with Utah Valley University's Ariel Elftman-Hanson (70-71) and former Southern Utah University basketball player Ryan Brimley (70-71).

Lee's two-day total of 4-under-par 140 (69-71) was much higher than usual for the City Am winner. He made 12 birdies in 36 holes, and he needed all of them to overcome his eight bogeys. Lee posted four birdies and four bogeys on the back nine Sunday and said he was proud to have "just stayed mentally tough. … My physical game was not the best."

Lee fell into a four-way tie with a bogey at the par-3 No. 17, but a pitching wedge shot from 147 yards on the par-4 No. 18 led to his birdie. When he struck the putt, he thought, "That's crushed," but the ball hit the hole and fell in for the win.

Jensen's adventurous tournament included three eagles Saturday and consecutive double bogeys Sunday, but he pulled into a tie with a birdie on No. 17. Brimley birdied the par-5 No. 16 after bogeying No. 12, where his drive bounced into a pine tree and stuck there. Elftman-Hanson, who's from Hawaii, had faded with bogeys on Nos. 14 and 15.

Zackary Neff (70-72) placed fifth. Clark Jones (73-72) won the A Flight and Tyson Shelley (74-81) took the B Flight.