Tway wins Players Amateur
- Golfweek photo by Tracy Wilcox
BLUFFTON, South Carolina (July 11, 2010) -- Two days after Oklahoma State teammate Peter Uihlein mounted a seven-shot win at the Sahalee Players Championship, Kevin Tway grabbed a seven-shot title of his own – winning the Players Amateur at Belfair Golf Club in Bluffton, S.C.
Tway closed with a bogey-free, 7-under 65 to finish at 14-under 274, topping Georgia Tech’s James White and Arkansas’ Ethan Tracy (281).
Tway played steadily in the first two rounds, firing 70 and 71, respectively. He caught fire on the weekend, turning in a 68 in Round 3 to set the stage for his closing 65. Tway was without a bogey for his final 27 holes.
Last year’s champion, Alabama’s Bud Cauley, finished at even-par 288, good enough for a share of 18th place.
Tway, No. 13 in the Golfweek/Sagarin college rankings, finished T-21 in last year’s Player’s Amateur. Fellow Cowboy Morgan Hoffmann finished T-25 at 3-over 291.
ABOUT THE Players Amateur
While competing in the 1999 US Amateur
Championship at Pebble Beach, former US
Walker Cup
Team members, Duke Delcher and Tom
McKnight
discussed the formation of a premier 72-hole
stroke
play amateur golf tournament. The inaugural
Players
Amateur was held the next summer. Former
British
Open Champion, Ben Curtis, was the winner of
the
2000 event. In 2004, the Heritage Classic
Foundation
began running the event. The Heritage Classic
Foundation was formed in 1987 as a 501 (c) (3),
not-
for-profit organization, it serves as the
operational
and financial oversight group for the PGA Tour
RBC
Heritage Classic. The Foundation distributes all
charitable funds generated from the tournaments
to
charity. The winner of The Players Amateur gets
an
exemption into the PGA Tour RBC Heritage
Classic, as
well as the Master of the Amateurs tournament
in
Melbourne, Australia.
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