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see also: Bryson DeChambeau, The Masters Tournament, Augusta National Golf Club
Every year the Masters welcomes a group of amateurs into the field, here is how the 2016 group qualified
ASIA-PACIFIC AMATEUR CHAMPION Cheng Jin: Rain shortened the Asia-Pacific Championship to just 54-holes last October but the reward was still the same for Cheng Jin. The native of China won by single strokes over Australians Cameron Davis and Ryan Ruffels. In the opening round Cheng fired a tournament record 62 to take the lead. Cheng Jin has competed in 15 professional events around the world since the start of 2015. He finished T35 at the Qatar Masters in January. LATIN AMERICAN AMATEUR CHAMPION Paul Chaplett: At the time of his victory Chaplet of Costa Rico, was the 832nd ranked amateur in the world. A year prior at the Latin American Amateur Chaplet finished a distant T36 but behind a closing day 2-under 70 he was able to claim a one-stroke triumph. Following the round Chaplet told reporters, “I wasn’t expecting to win. I was expecting to shoot under par, which is my main goal, so that was accomplished. And with that came the win, so I can’t really ask for much more.” Chaplet, 16-years-old, is eyeing his Masters week as an opportunity to earn a college scholarship. U.S. MID-AMATEUR CHAMPION Sammy Schmitz: Talk about improbable, Schmitz is the 2,399th ranked amateur in the world and he made it into the field. How you might ask? With a walk-off ace on a par 4 to win the championship match 3-and-2. “It felt like forever,” Schmintz from Minnesota said in the post round press conference. “We hit it, we knew it was good, we saw it kind of--I think I handed the club to my caddie John. I think I had taken my glove off at that point, and just a couple steps forward, and we heard everybody screaming. You can kind of tell a scream for when it’s close and when it goes in. We knew it went in. Everybody erupted, and it was a really good feeling.” Schmitz qualified for the Masters in a fashion no one else in the field can claim stake too. This will be Schmitz’s first career professional event. -CBS Sports, Golf Channel, USA Today and USGA contributed to this storyWho will be the low amateur at this years @TheMasters< /a>? Let us know your thoughts!
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One of Golf's four professional majors traditionally invites amateurs who have reached the finals of the US Amateur, or won the British Amateur or the US Mid Amateur. Also included are the winners of the relatively new Asia Pacific Amateur and Latin ...
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