Bud Cauley Wins The Players Amateur
2009 Players Amateur champion
BLUFFTON, SC (July 12, 2009)--Alabama sophomore-to-be Bud Cauley shot a final-round 71 to win the Players Amateur by two shots over George Bryan IV.
Cauley, who shot four rounds of par or better, finished at 6-under 282. Cauley, a second-team All-American this past college season, entered the week at No. 31 in the Golfweek/amateurgolf.com U.S. Rankings.
Cauley, the ‘08 Terra Cotta Invitational champion, finished T-9 in the Northeast Amateur and T-7 in the Jones Cup earlier this year. He also was co-medalist at the United States Collegiate Championship and represented the United States in the Palmer Cup.
George Bryan IV shot a final-round 71 to finish at 284. Bryan’s younger brother, Wesley, was the runner-up in last week’s North & South Amateur.
Defending Players Amateur champion Mark Anderson (71), Georgia Tech’s John Tyler Griffin (72) and Adam Mitchell (68) tied for third. Mitchell also finished third in last week’s Dogwood Invitational.
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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