Players Amateur: Anderson fires 60!
Univ. of SC photo
BLUFTON, South Carolina (July 13, 2008) -- Perhaps enjoying conditions he is familiar with, and obviously displaying a hot hand, South Carolina graduate Mark Anderson shot a 10-under 60 today at the Belfair Golf Club to win the Players Amateur by five shots over Australian Matt Jager.
And as unbelievable as that round sounds (we haven't heard of any 59's in amateur golf in quite some time) his 60 was not the only one.
Georgia Tech junior Chesson Hadley closed with a 60 of his own. He finished in 7th place.
Australians Matt Griffin and Josh Younger finished in a tie for third at 14-under 266.
As the winner of the Players Amateur, Anderson earned a spot into the 2009 Verizon Heritage Classic on the PGA Tour, and into the 2009 NEC Master of the Amateurs Championship in Australia
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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