Australian Cameron Davis named SGA's Amateur of the Month
Cameron Davis
(Golf Australia Photo)
BIRMINGHAM, AL (October 21, 2016) – After strong
performances throughout the month of September, 21-
year old Australian, Cameron Davis has been named
Amateur of the Month by the Southern Golf Association
(SGA).
The Aussie began his run by winning the individual
title at the World Amateur Teams Championship in
Mexico, which also earned him a spot in the field at the
PGA TOUR’s Mayakoba Classic next month.
He then went on to capture the individual title with
a two-stroke lead over the SGA’s Amateur of the Month
for September, Curtis Luck, at the Eisenhower Trophy,
where Davis was part of the three-man team to win the
Eisenhower Trophy by 19-strokes, Australia’s first
triumph in 20 years as the world’s top amateur team.
Davis is playing in the Queensland Open as a
professional next week before coming to the States for
stage two of the Web.com TOUR Qualifying School.
Davis elected to turn professional earlier turn professional.
Winners of the SGA’s monthly award are
determined by a blue-ribbon national panel of golf
officials, coaches and journalists. Now in its 14th
season, notable recipients have been Bill Haas, Michelle
Wie, Hunter Mahan, Ryan Moore, J. B. Holmes, Webb
Simpson, Rhys Davies, Kyle Stanley, Kevin Fortin-
Simard, Rickie Fowler, Danny Lee, Matthew Fitzpatrick,
Alice Hewson, and more recently Lee McCoy and Aaron
Wise.