FAR HILLS, New Jersey (August 20, 2014)
-- The Australian Women captured the title of
the
first of two World Amateur Team
Championships,
with USA finishing 10-strokes back in a tie for
5th.
The Men's team, captained by past-USGA
President
Jim Hyler, would love to bring one of the
trophies
back home. Read the preview and team bios
below.
PREVIOUSLY POSTED:
The United States Golf Association has
selected the three players who will represent
the USA at the 2014 World Amateur Team
Championship, to be played Sept. 10-13 at
Karuizawa 72 Golf East in Karuizawa, Japan.
The three players are: Bryson
DeChambeau, 20, of Clovis, Calif.; Beau
Hossler, 19, of Mission Viejo, Calif.; and Denny
McCarthy, 21, of Rockville, Md.
"These three young men have
earned their places on the USA Team with
their golf and their off-course
achievements,” said Daniel B. Burton,
USGA vice president and chairman of the
USGA’s International Team Selection
Committee. “The USGA is privileged to
have them join the company of outstanding
amateurs who have competed for our country
in the past, such as William Campbell, Jack
Nicklaus, Curtis Strange, Phil Mickelson, Tiger
Woods and Rickie Fowler as USA World
Amateur Team players.”
Past USGA president Jim Hyler, who
served on the USGA Executive Committee
from 2004-2011 and was integral to the
success of the 1999 and 2005 U.S. Opens at
Pinehurst Resort & Country Club, will
serve as captain of the USA World Amateur
Team.
“It is an honor to serve as the
captain of these talented young men at the
World Amateur,” Hyler said. “The
accomplishments of each member of the
team reflect their talents and I am looking
forward to seeing them compete against the
world’s best in Japan.”
DeChambeau, a junior at Southern
Methodist University, is No. 29 in the World
Amateur Golf Ranking™ (WAGR). He advanced
to the third round of the 2014 U.S. Amateur
as well as the quarterfinals of the 2014 U.S.
Amateur Public Links Championship, where he
lost to eventual champion Byron Meth. He
also earned a place in the round of 16 at the
Western Amateur after tying for second in
stroke play.
DeChambeau was on the 2014
USA Palmer Cup team and was a
semifinalist for the Ben Hogan Award. He
earned second-team All-America honors and
finished ninth individually at the 2014 NCAA Men’s
Division I Championship and won the
American Athletic Conference Championship.
DeChambeau was also an All-American
Athletic Conference pick and was named to
the PING All-Central Region team. In 2013, he
won the Trans-Mississippi Amateur and was
the runner-up at the California State
Amateur.
[DeChambeau's swing can be viewed in the
YouTube video above - he is known for using a
constant length in all his irons, Ed.]
Hossler, a sophomore at the University of
Texas, is No. 12 in the WAGR [No. 3 in the
Golfweek/AmateurGolf.com rankings, Ed.] He
advanced to the first round of match play at
the 2014 U.S. Amateur. Hossler won the 2014
Western Amateur as well as the 2013 and 2014
Southern California Golf Association Amateur.
He was also co-runner-up at the Porter Cup
and tied for fourth at the Southern Amateur.
As a freshman at Texas in 2014, he earned
honorable mention All-America honors and
was the Big 12 Conference newcomer of the
year, as well as an all-conference choice. He
also earned first-team all-Big 12 academic
honors. He made the cut at the 2012 U.S.
Open and was in the top 10 the first three
days before finishing tied for 29th.
McCarthy, a senior at the University of
Virginia, is No. 14 in the WAGR. [Also No. 14 in
the GolfWeek/AmateurGolf.com ranking,
ed.] Playing in his sixth U.S. Amateur in 2014,
he advanced to the semifinals, losing to
runner-up Corey Conners in a match that
went to the 18th hole. He was a second-
team All-America selection in 2014 during a
season in which he finished sixth individually
at the NCAA Division I Men’s
Championship with a 54-hole score of 4 under
par. He was also the Atlantic Coast
Conference runner-up and is a three-time first-
team all-ACC selection. He tied for second at
the 2014 Porter Cup with a final-round 65. In
2012, he was the ACC freshman of the year. In
2010, he was a semifinalist at the U.S. Junior
Amateur. [And if all that's not enough,
McCarthy won back-to-back Maryland State
Amateur titles in 2013 and 2014! Ed.]
The alternates are, in order of ranking: Brian
Campbell, 21, of Irvine, Calif.; and Scottie Scheffler, 18, of
Dallas, Texas.
The World Amateur Team Championship
was founded in 1958 and the Women’s
World Amateur Team Championship began in
1964. The International Golf Federation (IGF)
was founded in 1958 to encourage the
international development of golf through
friendship and sportsmanship. Today, the IGF
consists of 137 national governing bodies of
golf representing 131 countries, and is the
international federation for golf for the
International Olympic Committee. One of its
main functions is to conduct the biennial
World Amateur Team Championships for men
and women. It will conduct the golf
competition at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, and is conducting the golf
competition at the 2014 Youth Olympic
Games this month in China.
The 2014 World Amateur Team
Championship will be contested on the
Oshitate and Iriyama Courses and hosted by
the Japan Golf Association. The World
Amateur Team Championship was last played in
2012 in Antalya, Turkey, with the USA
winning the Eisenhower Trophy for a record
14th time.
The 2016 championship will be hosted by
the Mexican Golf Federation and will be
contested at El Camaleón Golf Club and the
Grand Coral Riviera Maya Resort in Cancun,
Mexico.
- story courtesy USGA
ABOUT THE
Men's World Amateur Team
In 1958 the United States Golf Association
asked The R&A to join them in sponsoring
a world-wide amateur golf team event to
be played biennially in non-Walker Cup
years. Between 35 and 40 nations were
represented at the first meeting and
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
presented the trophy which bears his
name. The committee of the event was to
be known as the World Amateur Golf
Council and is now the International Golf
Federation. Teams of four players from
each country competed over 72 holes with
the leading three scores from each round
to count. The first competition was held
between 29 nations at St Andrews, with
Australia beating the United States in a
play-off. In 2002 the format changed to
teams of three with the two leading
scores to count.
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