Following a thrilling Western Amateur, one event remains before the U.S. Walker Cup team in finalized.
Half of the team has already been selected: Vanderbilt’s Gordon Sargent, Stanford’s Michael Thorbjornsen, North Carolina’s David Ford, Alabama’s Nick Dunlap and Tennessee’s Caleb Surratt. But the U.S. Amateur, which begins a week from Monday at Cherry Hills south of Denver, provides the remaining hopefuls a final audition for the USGA’s selection committee and American captain Mike McCoy.
Per USGA rules, the winner of the U.S. Amateur, if American, will automatically earn a spot on the 10-man squad, which next month will face Great Britain and Ireland at St.