Ray Peterson and Adam Dooley played the best match of Tuesday's Minnesota Golf Association Players' Championship at Northland Country Club, tournament director Doug Hoffmann said.
Peterson of Northland Country Club was up by three strokes through 15 holes before Dooley of Albany Golf Club birdied the next three holes, including a 35-foot putt on No. 18, to force an extra hole.
Peterson -- with a 65-foot putt -- birdied No. 1 to win in 19 holes and advance to today's third round of the 30th amateur match-play event.
"It wasn't that I was playing bad on those holes," the 35-year-old Peterson said. "[Dooley] is a phenomenal player who was outdriving me by 70 yards. ... I had to remind myself of that."
Peterson, in his first MGA event, will play Trent Peterson this morning.
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Clint Cornell of Grand Rapids won two matches to make today's round of 16. The Bemidji State senior beat Brian May 2-up and Steve Chesley 1-up.
Northland's John Treacy beat Larry Barnacle in the first round, but fell to Robbie Kelley in the second.
Two other Northland Country Club members lost in the first round. Kevin Noreen lost to defending Players' champion Tom Jenkins 3 and 2, while Scott Anderson lost to Phillip Ebner 6 and 5.
Grand Rapids' Matt Schneider lost 1-up to Jim Lehman, who won the Northland Invitational from 2003-05, and Hermantown's Reed Kolquist fell to Joel Johnson 2 and 1.
