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Yahoo
5 days ago
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Heading for the Olympic Club: Five First Coast players are in the U.S. Amateur field
The U.S. Junior Amateur championship match is on July 26 and there isn't much of a turnaround before many of the participants will be traveling across the country to the Olympic Club in San Francisco for the U.S. Amateur Aug. 11-17. That includes Miles Russell of Jacksonville Beach and Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island, who went deep at the Junior Amateur and were already exempt from qualifying for the U.S. Am. Mawhinney is seeking a second USGA national championship. He and Will Hartman, who will be teammates at Vanderbilt in 2026, won the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball in New Jersey in May. Four other area players are in the field through local qualifying: Carson Brewer and Ryan Nicholson of Ponte Vedra Beach, Ryan Gear of St. Augustine and Luke Balaskiewicz of Jacksonville. The U.S. Amateur was last at the Olympic Club in 2007, when future PGA Tour players locked up in the championship match. Colt Knost defeated Michael Thompson 2 and 1. Topgolf sponsoring contest for Dads Topgolf is sponsoring a nationwide contest to pick one lucky father who will be the a "Dadtern" with a series of perks from the entertainment center. One lucky father will get a free one-year Topgolf Platinum Membership that comes with unlimited practice time, a $2,000 gift card for Topgolf merchandise or meals and a behind-the-scenes tour of the facility. Fathers can apply for the "Dadtern" through Aug. 8 by going to and giving contact information, date of birth and one reason why they should be the "Dadtern." Deerwood, Travis Fulton Golf partner The Deerwood Country Club announced a partnership with Travis Fulton Golf and will bring Fulton's "brand and visibility," according to a news release, to the Southside private club. Deerwood members will benefit from a year-round platform of private instruction, clinics, junior development, women's programs and golf schools. The program, which begins on Aug. 1, is tailored to a private club membership. Travis Fulton Golf has studios in Ponte Vedra and downtown Jacksonville, as well as the Forescore sports bar on Gate Parkway. Fulton was with Golf Channel, where he was the instructional host for programs such as 'On The Range' and 'Morning Drive." He is a regular contributor to Golf Digest and PGA Tour Entertainment. This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Miles Russell, Tyler Mawhinney lead First Coast contingent in U.S. Amateur
NBC Sports
14-07-2025
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- NBC Sports
U.S. Girls' Junior primer: Players to watch, TV schedule, info
The 76th U.S. Girls' Junior begins Monday at Atlanta Athletic Club's Riverside Course in Johns Creek, Georgia. The format will be a familiar one – 36 holes of stroke play on Monday and Tuesday before the top 64 players advance to match play, which starts Wednesday. The 36-hole final will take place Saturday. Here is the TV schedule (all times ET): Friday, July 18 (Semifinals): 3 p.m.-5 p.m. (Peacock) Friday, July 18 (Semifinals): 9 p.m.-11 p.m. (Golf Channel, Tape Delay) Saturday, July 19 (Final): 3 p.m.-5 p.m. (Peacock) Saturday, July 19 (Final): 9 p.m.-11 p.m. (Golf Channel, Tape Delay) In the 156-player field are seven players ranked inside the top 100 of the World Amateur Golf Ranking, including No. 17 Asterisk Talley, who is already a USGA champion (2024 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball) and twice a USGA runner-up (2024 U.S. Girls' Junior and U.S. Amateur). Talley, 16, has also played a Curtis Cup, beating Lottie Woad in singles last year at Sunningdale, and was low amateur at last year's U.S. Women's Open. The player who beat Talley in both of those USGA championship finals last summer, Rianne Malixi, the 18-year-old who just missed the cut in the Evian Championship, is not competing. Talley is hoping to join Malixi, JoAnne Gunderson (1956) and Peggy Conley (1964) as the only players to win a U.S. Girls' Junior the year after finishing second. Talley's partner at the 2024 Four-Ball, Sarah Lim, is also in the field, as are this year's Four-Ball champions, Natalie Yen and Asia Young. The average age of the field is 16.42 with the oldest competitor, South Dakota signee Morgan Rupp, turning 19 later this month, and the youngest, Bella Simoes, just weeks from her 12th birthday. Two current college players are teeing it up – Wake Forest's Chloe Kovalesky and Memphis' Claire Swathwood. Sixteen countries are represented, including one competitor apiece from Bolivia, Lebanon, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Venezuela. Aside from Talley, here are 10 other players to watch: Kaya Daluwatte: The 16-year-old is Sri Lanka's top-ranked player and is playing in her first USGA championship. Her victories include last year's Nepal Amateur Open. Aphrodite Deng: Just 15 years old, but already the second-best player in the field per WAGR, where she is ranked No. 38. She won both the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley and AJGA Mizuho Americas Open earlier this year. Nikki Oh: The daughter of teaching pro Ted Oh, the 17-year-old Oh, a member of the Class of 2026, is one of seven U.S. National Development Team members in the field. She's ranked No. 76 in WAGR and is verbally committed to Stanford. Alexandra Phung: The 14-year-old from New York City is a two-time Drive, Chip and Putt national champion, including winning this year's 12-13 age division. Last year, she debuted on the AJGA and won the Junior All-Star at Meadowbrook in a playoff. Victoria Richani: The 17-year-old, who now lives in Corona, California, will make history as the first player representing Lebanon to play a U.S. Girls' Junior. She was the player of the year on the Southern California Junior Tour in 2022. Apr 1, 2025; Evans, Georgia, USA; Scarlett Schremmer, of Ala., tees off No. two during the practice round of the Augusta National Women's Amateur at Champions Retreat. Mandatory Credit: Katie Goodale - Augusta Chronicle/USA TODAY NETWORK Katie Goodale / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Scarlett Schremmer: Another U.S. National Team member, the 18-year-old Schremmer was a competitive surfer before transitioning to golf. She signed with Texas A&M last November and is the daughter of former LPGA player Patricia Ehrhart, who was low amateur at the 2022 U.S. Senior Women's Open. Schremmer advanced to the Round of 16 at both this championship and the U.S. Women's Amateur last summer. Bella Simoes: The youngest player in the field at 11 years old, Simoes won four straight IMG Junior World Championships from 2020 to 2023. She also became the youngest to attempt to qualify for the U.S. Women's Open two years ago. Alli Wiertel: The 16-year-old from Oswego, Illinois, is the daughter of Jason Wiertel, who caddies for Luke Clanton. Wiertel made the quarters of the Women's Western Junior last month. Natalie Yen and Asia Young: A package deal as the reigning Four-Ball champs and fellow Oregonians, Yen is an 18-year-old from West Linn who is signed to play at Texas A&M this fall while Young is a 16-year-old from Bend. Yen won last year's AJGA Annika Invitational and was a member of the U.S. Junior Solheim Cup team. She advanced to the Round of 16 at the U.S. Girls' Junior two years ago before losing to eventual champ Kiara Romero. Young has a couple notable junior wins this year, at the Callaway Junior at Canebrake and the Arizona Silver Belle Championship.
NBC Sports
20-05-2025
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- NBC Sports
Player makes USGA history in winning Four-Ball match as a single
Marc Dull played solo Tuesday morning and made USGA history, becoming the first player to win a U.S. Amateur Four-Ball match as a single. Dull's partner, Chip Brooke, had to leave Plainfield Country Club in Westfield, New Jersey, to attend his daughter's graduation. That left Dull to face John Ramsey and Chadd Slutzky by his lonesome in the Round of 16, and he dispatched the pair, 2 and 1. Marc Dull's partner had to leave to attend his daughter's graduation. He went on to defeat their opponents by himself 🤯 He will play again this afternoon in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball. Dull, from Lakeland, Florida, will next take on Carson Looney and Hunter Powell in the quarterfinals. If he wins again, Brooke will rejoin Dull for Wednesday's semifinal match. Dull and Brooke made the semis in 2017 and the final in 2018, where they were runner-up.
USA Today
15-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Former Heisman trophy winner Sam Bradford and friend qualify for U.S. Amateur Four-Ball
Former Heisman trophy winner Sam Bradford and friend qualify for U.S. Amateur Four-Ball He won the Heisman trophy. He played for four NFL teams over a nine-year pro career. Now, Sam Bradford is making waves in the sport of golf. The USGA posted on social media Thursday that Bradford will compete in the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball tournament, which starts Saturday on two different golf courses in New Jersey. Bradford has teamed up with Ben Bench, a friend since childhood, growing up in Oklahoma. Bradford later won the Heisman Trophy with the Oklahoma Sooners before becoming the first overall pick of the St. Louis Rams in 2010. The pair earned their spot in the 10th rendition of four-balls in a qualifier last August. The USGA notes that Bradford joins a list of other former professional athletes to qualify for this event, including Tony Romo, Kyle Williams, Danny Woodhead and Billy Joe Tolliver from the NFL and former Major League Baseball pitcher Erik Hanson.
NBC Sports
05-02-2025
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- NBC Sports
The move that helped get local Frankie Capan III into the WM Phoenix Open
Seeking a sponsor exemption into this week's WM Phoenix Open, Frankie Capan III wrote the customary letter to tournament officials. Once Capan's letter hit his inbox, Chance Cozby, executive director of The Thunderbirds, who run the annual PGA Tour stop at TPC Scottsdale, emailed the Phoenix native to let him know how impressed he was. No one, Cozby told Capan, had ever sent in a four-page letter. 'For me, that was kind of cool,' said Capan, who was among the sponsor invites selected. 'But I didn't try and add unnecessary information. I just kind of wanted them to learn a little bit about me and my past.' Capan was born in Minnesota, but he spent a large chunk of his childhood about 15 minutes up the road from Scottsdale, where his parents, Frank Jr. and Charlynn, still live. He practiced mostly at the Country Club at DC Ranch and attended high school at nearby Northwest Christian School, capping his prep career by shooting 59 and winning the state individual title at Omni Tucson National. (Around that time, Capan teamed up with buddy Ben Wong to capture the 2017 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball.) When Capan was in elementary school, he served as a Phoenix Open standard bearer for Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson and Bill Haas. And before that, he and his two sisters, Elle and Erica, participated in the area's junior version of the People's Open, the Itty Bitty Open, where top finishers were later celebrated at TPC Scottsdale during the big tournament. 'I just wanted to highlight that a little, and then just all the relationships that my family and I have formed in the valley,' Capan added. 'Other than that, mainly just kind of updating him a little bit about how the last couple years have gone for me and just given him a little bit of insight into my golf career so far.' Capan, who split his college career between Alabama and then Florida Gulf Coast, starred on the Korn Ferry Tour last year, posting seven top-10s, including a victory, along with firing a 58 at the Veritex Bank Championship. He's a rookie on the PGA Tour this year, making three straight cuts to begin the season, though he didn't qualify for the WMPO on his number due to the limited field size (120 players) and high demand from fully exempt members, hence the need for the sponsor invite. Capan birdied the par-3 16th hole on Tuesday. The stands were a little empty, he says, but he's also aware that won't be the case come Thursday – and he's ready for it. 'I have a lot of confidence in my game and what I'm able to do with the golf ball to where I think at the end of the day we're all really just entertainers,' Capan said. 'This weekend might be a little different. That's probably not why 500,000, 700,000 people are here. But for most golf tournaments, that's really what it is; it's entertainment. 'I think that's sometimes where I thrive.' Sleeping in his childhood bed and some home-cooked meals by mom certainly won't hurt either.
