Four Aussies and two New Zealanders in field for US Am
The US Amateur Trophy – Image Chris Keane USGA
Four Australians and two New Zealanders have made the field for this week’s US Amateur Championship at the Cherry Hills Country Club in Cherry Hills Village south of Denver in Colorado.
The 36-hole stroke-play phase begins tonight following which the leading 64 players advance to the knock-out, match play rounds.
Australians Harrison Crowe, Karl Vilips, Jeffrey Guan and Tony Chen will be joined by New Zealanders Kazuma Kobori and Josh Bai as they seek to emulate the deeds of Nick Flanagan (2003), Danny Lee (2008) and Curtis Luck (2016) as champions of golf’s greatest amateur event.
Crowe is the current Asia Pacific Amateur Champion and former NSW Open Champion, Vilips plays his golf at Stanford University and is a former winner of the Southern Amateur and a Quarter Finalist at the US Amateur, Jeffrey Guan qualified to gain a start this week via qualifying in New Jersey and Tony Chen moved to Australia from China as an 8-year-old but now plays collegiate golf in California and played his way into the field via qualifying in California.
Of the two New Zealanders in the field, Kobori is the current Australian Amateur Champion and qualified via qualifying before winning the recent Western Amateur near Chicago and Bai finished runner-up at the recent US Junior Amateur Championship.
Cherry Hills Country Club is no stranger to USGA events having staged nine previously including a women’s US Open and has been the home of three PGA Championships.
