Matt Fitzpatrick named SGA Amateur of Month
BIRMINGHAM, ALA – English teen Matthew
Fitzpatrick has been named the Southern Golf
Association’s National Amateur of
the Month for July. Fitzpatrick, 18, won on the
strength of his victory in the USGA Amateur
Championship, the world’s top-
rated amateur tournament.
Fitzpatrick defeated Aussie Oliver Gross, 4 and 3, in the 36-hole final match at The Country Club in Brookline, Mass. The winner headed up a group of foreign-born competitors in an event that was without an American among the four semifinalists.
In selection panel voting, Fitzpatrick, who
is headed to Northwestern University for his
freshman year, narrowly
defeated Oklahoma State soph Jordan
Niebrugge, who was accorded honorable
mention after stringing together victories
three straight weeks. However, only his hat
trick-clinching triumph in the prestigious
Western Amateur was contested in
August.
The Am of the Month award is selected by a national, blue-ribbon panel of golf officials, coaches and journalists. This year’s previous winners of the March-thru- October award were Stanford’s Patrick Rodgers, Chinese teen Masters sensation Guan Tianlang, Cal’s Max Homa, Alabama’s Cory Whitsett and Southern Am champ Zachary Olsen.
The coveted award is one of the ways the SGA promotes and advances amateur golf, including its storied Southern Amateur, the 108th playing scheduled next July at the exclusive Honors Course near Chattanooga.
Fitzpatrick defeated Aussie Oliver Gross, 4 and 3, in the 36-hole final match at The Country Club in Brookline, Mass. The winner headed up a group of foreign-born competitors in an event that was without an American among the four semifinalists.
The Am of the Month award is selected by a national, blue-ribbon panel of golf officials, coaches and journalists. This year’s previous winners of the March-thru- October award were Stanford’s Patrick Rodgers, Chinese teen Masters sensation Guan Tianlang, Cal’s Max Homa, Alabama’s Cory Whitsett and Southern Am champ Zachary Olsen.
The coveted award is one of the ways the SGA promotes and advances amateur golf, including its storied Southern Amateur, the 108th playing scheduled next July at the exclusive Honors Course near Chattanooga.
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