Players Am: Hunter Stewart wins rain-shortened event
- photo courtesy Voetsch
BLUFFTON, South Carolina (July 14, 2013) -- Sometimes a one stroke lead is enough.
Heading into today's final round, that's what Hunter Stewart (14-under 202 through 54 holes) had over a talented field at the 2013 Players Amateur at South Carolina's Berkeley Hall Country Club. (A breath away at 203 was Cal golfer and 2012 US Amateur runner-up Michael Weaver.)
But rains that had plagued the tournament all week finally proved too much for the course on Sunday, and when the final round was called, the Vanderbilt University golfer was declared the winner. With that win comes an exemption into the PGA Tour's Heritage Classic.
Stewart's Vanderbilt teammate John Voetsch (who we thank for also tweeting the trophy picture shown here) tweeted the following:
"Congrats @hunterstewart5 for winning the Players Am. Great player, better leader, even better friend/person."
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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