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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.”

Bryson
Dechambeau
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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.]

Beau Hossler
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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.

Denny McCarthy
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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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