Champ Named to US Walker Cup Team
Aug 20, 2017 | Men's Golf
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Texas A&M rising senior Cameron Champ was among 10 players named to the 2017 United States Walker Cup Team, which will meet Great Britain and Ireland in the 46th Match at the Los Angeles (Calif.) Country Club's North Course, Sept. 9-10.
The 10 players chosen by the USGA's International Team Selection Committee and captained by John "Spider" Miller, of Indianapolis, Ind., are: Champ, 21, of Sacramento, Calif.; Doug Ghim, 21, of Arlington Heights, Ill.; Stewart Hagestad, 26, of Newport Beach, Calif., Maverick McNealy, 21, of Portola Valley, Calif.; Collin Morikawa, 20, of La Canada Flintridge, Calif.; Doc Redman, 19, of Raleigh, N.C.; Scottie Scheffler, 21, of Dallas, Texas; Braden Thornberry, 20, of Olive Branch, Miss.; Norman Xiong, 18, of Canyon Lake, Calif., and Will Zalatoris, 21, of Plano, Texas. McNealy is the lone returning player from the 2015 USA Team.
Champ earned national attention this summer as he stood out as just one of two amateurs to make the 36-hole cut in the 2017 U.S. Open, tying for 32nd. Additionally, he won this year's Trans-Mississippi Amateur by four strokes and was runner-up in the Pacific Coast Amateur. Champ, who was the medalist in the North & South Amateur in June and a semifinalist in the Western Amateur in August, was chosen as a third-team All-American and a first-team All-SEC performer.
The Walker Cup Match is a biennial amateur team competition between the USA and a team composed of players from Great Britain and Ireland, selected by The R&A. The Match is played over two days with 18 singles matches and eight foursomes (alternate-shot) matches. The USA leads the overall series, 35-9-1, but the teams have split the last 14 meetings since 1989.
The first USA Walker Cup Team, which posted an 8-4 victory in 1922 at the National Golf Links of America, in Southampton, N.Y., is considered among the best teams ever assembled and included Francis Ouimet, Bob Jones, Charles "Chick" Evans and Jess Sweetser. Many of the game's greatest players have competed in the Walker Cup, including U.S. Open champions Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Jordan Spieth and Dustin Johnson for the USA and Graeme McDowell, Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose for Great Britain and Ireland.
The Walker Cup Match will be conducted for the third time on the West Coast and was previously hosted by Seattle (Wash.) Golf Club in 1961 and Cypress Point Club, in Pebble Beach, Calif., in 1981. This year's match will be played on The Los Angeles County Club's North Course, which was designed by George C. Thomas Jr. and restored by Gil Hanse. The course will be set up at 7,425 yards and play to a par of 35-36-71.
Sam Burns, 21, of Shreveport, La., Dawson Armstrong, 21, of Brentwood, Tenn., and Dylan Meyer, 22, of Evansville, Ind., are the first, second and third alternatives, respectively.
The 10 players chosen by the USGA's International Team Selection Committee and captained by John "Spider" Miller, of Indianapolis, Ind., are: Champ, 21, of Sacramento, Calif.; Doug Ghim, 21, of Arlington Heights, Ill.; Stewart Hagestad, 26, of Newport Beach, Calif., Maverick McNealy, 21, of Portola Valley, Calif.; Collin Morikawa, 20, of La Canada Flintridge, Calif.; Doc Redman, 19, of Raleigh, N.C.; Scottie Scheffler, 21, of Dallas, Texas; Braden Thornberry, 20, of Olive Branch, Miss.; Norman Xiong, 18, of Canyon Lake, Calif., and Will Zalatoris, 21, of Plano, Texas. McNealy is the lone returning player from the 2015 USA Team.
Champ earned national attention this summer as he stood out as just one of two amateurs to make the 36-hole cut in the 2017 U.S. Open, tying for 32nd. Additionally, he won this year's Trans-Mississippi Amateur by four strokes and was runner-up in the Pacific Coast Amateur. Champ, who was the medalist in the North & South Amateur in June and a semifinalist in the Western Amateur in August, was chosen as a third-team All-American and a first-team All-SEC performer.
The Walker Cup Match is a biennial amateur team competition between the USA and a team composed of players from Great Britain and Ireland, selected by The R&A. The Match is played over two days with 18 singles matches and eight foursomes (alternate-shot) matches. The USA leads the overall series, 35-9-1, but the teams have split the last 14 meetings since 1989.
The first USA Walker Cup Team, which posted an 8-4 victory in 1922 at the National Golf Links of America, in Southampton, N.Y., is considered among the best teams ever assembled and included Francis Ouimet, Bob Jones, Charles "Chick" Evans and Jess Sweetser. Many of the game's greatest players have competed in the Walker Cup, including U.S. Open champions Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Jordan Spieth and Dustin Johnson for the USA and Graeme McDowell, Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose for Great Britain and Ireland.
The Walker Cup Match will be conducted for the third time on the West Coast and was previously hosted by Seattle (Wash.) Golf Club in 1961 and Cypress Point Club, in Pebble Beach, Calif., in 1981. This year's match will be played on The Los Angeles County Club's North Course, which was designed by George C. Thomas Jr. and restored by Gil Hanse. The course will be set up at 7,425 yards and play to a par of 35-36-71.
Sam Burns, 21, of Shreveport, La., Dawson Armstrong, 21, of Brentwood, Tenn., and Dylan Meyer, 22, of Evansville, Ind., are the first, second and third alternatives, respectively.
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