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Nick Dunlap - Huntsville, Alabama
WAGR® 5
Age 19
The 2023 US Amateur champion is coming off an impressive summer campaign which has also included back-to-back wins at the Northeast Amateur and the North & South Amateur at Pinehurst No 2. He also won the Linger Longer Invitational. The 2021 US Junior Amateur champion and rising sophomore at the University of Alabama earned his second US Open start in June by coming through qualifying. The second-team All-American has played in seven USGA championships, including three US Amateurs, and advanced to the semi-finals of the 2022 US Junior Amateur Championship. Dunlap qualified for the 2019 US Amateur as a 15-year-old and was named the 2021 AJGA Rolex Golfer of the Year.
David Ford - Peachtree Corners, Georgia
WAGR® 4
Age 20
Ford was named first-team All-American (GCAA and Golfweek) and voted ACC Player of the Year as a sophomore at the University of North Carolina in 2022-23. He was also selected to this year’s Palmer Cup team and was recognised as both a Haskins Award finalist and Hogan Award semi-finalist. Ford won the 2022 Southern Amateur Championship at Sea Island Golf Club in St Simons Island in Georgia. Ford played all four rounds on his PGA Tour debut at The Barbasol Championship in July following a sponsor’s exemption. Ford reached the last-16 of the recent US Amateur Championship.
Nick Gabrelcik - Trinity, Florida
WAGR® 9
Age 21
Gabrelcik is coming off a run to the last-32 in the US Amateur Championship at Cherry Hills Country Club in Denver. Earlier this summer, he notched a victory at the Southern Amateur Championship at the Honors Course in Ooltewah, shooting a final round eight-under 64 to overcome a six-stroke deficit. The rising senior at the University of North Florida advanced to the semi-finals of the US Amateur in 2021 at Oakmont. That year he earned the Phil Mickelson Award as the top freshman in college golf. He is a three-time USA Palmer Cup competitor and made the cut in the 2023 Valspar Championship on the PGA Tour, carding a second round 67.
Austin Greaser - Vandalia, Ohio
WAGR® 10
Age 22
Greaser reached the last-32 in the recent US Amateur Championship. He earned a spot in the US Open in 2022 by finishing runner-up to James Piot in the 2021 US Amateur at Oakmont, where the fifth-year senior at the University of North Carolina lost 2&1 in the 36-hole final. He was then one of only four amateurs to make the cut at The Country Club. Greaser won the 2022 Western Amateur Championship, defeating Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira. He was a quarter-finalist in the US Junior Amateur in 2019 at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio, losing to eventual champion Preston Summerhays. In April 2022, he competed in the Masters Tournament, his first major championship start.
Stewart Hagestad - Newport Beach, California
WAGR® 19
Age 32
Hagestad has been a member of three winning USA Walker Cup teams (2017, 2019, 2021). The Californian, who has competed in four US Opens, reached the quarter-finals of the US Amateur in 2020 and 2022. He has played in 26 USGA championships, including 13 US Amateurs. He captured the US Mid-Amateur Championship in 2021 at Sankaty Head Golf Club, defeating Mark Costanza, 2&1. He also defeated Scott Harvey after 37 holes in the 2016 US Mid-Amateur Championship, producing the largest comeback victory since the 36-hole final was introduced in 2001. Hagestad was the low amateur in the Masters Tournament in 2017, becoming the first invited Mid-Amateur champion to make the 36-hole cut.
Ben James - Milford, Connecticut
WAGR® 7
Age 20
James, who reached the quarter-finals of the US Amateur Championship in August, is coming off an accolade-filled freshman year at the University of Virginia, where he was named winner of the 2023 Phil Mickelson Outstanding Freshman Award, a First-Team Ping All-American, ACC Freshman of the Year and a finalist for both the Haskins and Jack Nicklaus Awards. He finished sixth at the NCAA Championships, set the UVA record with five first-place finishes and finished in the top six in 11 of 13 tournaments. James is only the second player in Virginia history to earn first-team All-America honours. He was also selected to the US Palmer Cup team in 2023 and received a sponsor’s exemption to play in the Travelers Championship this year on the PGA Tour.
Dylan Menante - Carlsbad, California
WAGR® 6
Age 22
Menante became the first University of North Carolina player to finish in the top ten in both an NCAA regional (tied sixth) and the NCAA Championship (tied fourth) in the same season. The fifth-year senior transferred to Chapel Hill from Pepperdine last year and has now played on teams that earned top-three finishes in the NCAA Championship in each of the last three seasons. He earned his second consecutive West Coast Conference Player of the Year honours during a junior year at Pepperdine that included four top-ten finishes. Menante helped the Waves capture the NCAA Championship in 2021, their first national title since 1997. He has competed in five US Amateurs (2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) and reached the semi-finals in 2022.
Gordon Sargent - Birmingham, Alabama
WAGR® 1
Age 20
The world’s number one amateur made the cut in June’s US Open at Los Angeles Country Club and went on to earn low-amateur honours with a tied 39th finish. He was also voted Southeastern Conference Player of the Year as a sophomore at Vanderbilt University in 2022-23. He posted eight top-five finishes, including fifth in the SEC Championship and a tie for seventh in the NCAA Auburn Regional. Won the Mark H McCormack Medal as the leading male player in the 2023 World Amateur Golf Ranking® (WAGR®). Sargent also won the 2022 NCAA individual title in a play-off and received the Phil Mickelson Award as the nation’s top freshman. He helped the USA win a bronze medal at last year’s World Amateur Team Championship in Paris.
Preston Summerhays - Scottsdale, Arizona
WAGR® 13
Age 21
Summerhays played in his second US Open this year, having competed in his first in 2020 when he won the US Junior Amateur in 2019. Summerhays is the son of former PGA Tour player Boyd, the nephew of PGA Tour player Daniel and the great nephew of Bruce, who won three PGA Tour Champions events. Preston’s sister, Grace, qualified for this year’s US Women’s Open and his uncle, Joe, was in the field at the 2023 US Senior Open. Summerhays won the Sunnehanna Amateur in 2020, becoming the youngest champion in tournament history. In 2022, Summerhays was named Pac-12 Conference Freshman of the Year after recording eight top-ten finishes during his first year at Arizona State University.
Caleb Surratt - Indian Trail, North Carolina
WAGR® 8
Age 19
Surratt had a dominant week at the SEC Championship earlier this year, claiming the individual championship by six strokes. The talented sophomore at the University of Tennessee won the Maui Jim Intercollegiate and had a runner-up finish at this year’s Northeast Amateur. He had seven top-ten finishes in the 2022-23 college season, earning him first-team All-America honours. Last year, Surratt won the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley, became the first back-to-back winner of the Terra Cotta Invitational and won the 2022 Elite Amateur Golf Series. He also finished runner-up in the 2022 US Junior Amateur Championship at Bandon Dunes.
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Join us as we celebrate 100 years since the Walker Cup was first staged in St Andrews and witness one of the fiercest team rivalries in amateur golf battle it out on the Old Course.
The energy and excitement will be unparalleled as Great Britain and Ireland go head-to-head with the USA in this historic match-up at the home of golf.