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THE WOODLANDS, Texas (July 9, 2013) -- The
Southern Amateur is one of the most
prestigious and long-running golf
championships, recently ranked by the R&A as
No. 7
amateur event in the world, No 4 in U.S.
Staged by the 111-year-old Southern Golf
Association, the tournament migrates among
the
South’s most notable courses, past sites
including The Honors Course, CC of
Birmingham,
Memphis Colonial CC, Sea Island, Pinehurst,
Bay
Hill, The Homestead, Dunes Golf & Beach
Club, Lake Nona, Atlanta AC, Oak Tree, Ocean
Forest, East Lake, Houston Champions, Druid
Hills and Biltmore Forest.
About the 2013 Southern Amateur
Championship
The Site – Carlton Woods’ Nicklaus
Signature Course, located outside Houston TX,
opened in 2001 to national acclaim. The 7,368-
yard, Par 72 course was immediately selected
by Golf Digest as one of America’s top three
new private courses and No. 1 in Texas. It has
hosted the USGA State Team Championship,
the Texas Amateur, Texas Mid-Am and, in
2014,
will host the USGA Junior.
International Field – Extremely strong
field of 168 players, awarded spots either
through the SGA exempt categories or one of
the 20 regional qualifiers. Five of the current
top 10 world amateurs are entered, including
the U. of Alabama All-American trio of
Houston’s Cory Whitsett (4), 2012 Southern
Am runnerup Bobby Wyatt (1) and Justin
Thomas (3). Whitsett was named SGA National
Am of the Month for June. Australians
Cameron Smith (9) and Brady Watt (10) round
out the top-tenners.
Other notables include reigning
Southern
Am champ Peter Williamson, a 3-time All-
Ivy at Dartmouth, who beat Wyatt in a playoff
last summer in Little Rock; past-champ Alex
Carpenter, an Abilene-Christian senior from
Little Rock who recently won the Nicklaus
Award
as the nation’s top Division II golfer; and 15-
year-old David Mackey of Bogart GA who won
the SGA Southern Junior last month in
Richmond, VA.
The international field boasts players
from 28 states and 14 foreign countries. After
36 holes, the field will be cut to the low 66 and
ties for the final two rounds.
To the Winner - Champ’s name
engraved on the huge George W. Adair Trophy
kept
on permanent display in the Bob Jones Trophy
Room in Atlanta Athletic Club. Winner also
earns a sponsor exemption to play in the PGA
Tour Arnold Palmer Invitational next spring at
Bay Hill Club in Orlando.
Notable Past Winners – Bobby Jones
(3 times), Freddie Haas, Gay Brewer, Billy Joe
Patton, Hubert Green (twice), Vinny Giles
(twice), Lanny Wadkins (twice), Ben Crenshaw
(twice), Bob Tway, Mark Brooks, Steve
Lowery,
Justin Leonard (twice) and young PGA Tour
players Webb Simpson (twice) and Kyle
Stanley
(twice).
ABOUT THE
Southern Amateur
The Southern Amateur, which dates back to 1902, is
one of two competitions held by the Southern Golf
Association (the other is the Southern Junior). This
is a 72-hole stroke play championship with a cut
made after 36 holes. Entries are open to any male
amateur golfer who has a current USGA Handicap
Index® not exceeding 3.4 under the USGA Handicap
System. Non-exempt players must pre-qualify at
one of the qualifying sites held across the southern
U.S. in the two months leading up to the
championship.
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