Suffolk’s J.P. Leigh qualified for his second USGA Senior Amateur Championship by shooting a 1-under par 71 at Manakin-Sabot’s Hermitage Country Club on Monday in sectional qualifying for the national championship tournament.

Leigh, 63, birdied the final hole to finish one shot behind medalist J.W. Entsminger of Lexington and two strokes clear of the cut line for qualifying.

Kinloch Golf Club in Manakin-Sabot will host the USGA Senior Amatuer Championship from Sept. 10-15. The USGA Senior Amateur Championship starts with two days of stroke play, cutting the field down to the top 64 for four days of match play rounds.

Leigh is a four-time state champion in the Virginia State Golf Association Senior Stroke Play Championship. He reached his first USGA national tournament two summers ago, making the USGA Senior Amateur Championship at Beverly Country Club in Chicago.

Leigh shot rounds of 73 and 76 in the stroke play rounds at Beverly, making the match play portion of the tournament where he lost in the first round.