There isn’t a player in this Western Amateur field quite like Dawson Armstrong.
He chats with and befriends standard-bearers with regularity. He talks with volume on some greens while other golfers tend toward the near-silent approach. Early week at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Ill. – in the middle of a round – he walked up to a Western Golf Association staffer and began analyzing an answer he gave him in an interview the day before. As he was leading deep into the second round of the tournament’s stroke-play portion, Armstrong was mostly preoccupied with cheering on playing partner Sam Horsfield as he teetered around the cut.