This past weekend, 16 guys gathered in California to show their mettle at a @WalkerCup practice session with Captain Spider Miller. pic.twitter.com/7E dNi MSbVF
— USGA (@USGA) December 20, 2016
LOS ANGELES, CA (December 21, 2016) -- Last
weekend 16 Team USA 2017 Walker Cup hopefuls
teed
it up at Los Angeles Country Club in a practice
session
for the biennial event. The practice session was held
in
uncharacteristically cold and rainy conditions but it
didn't tamper the excitement that came with a
chance
to compete for a spot on the team for the September
9-
10 match against Great Britain & Ireland.
"This practice session has a lot of value for me as the
captain and it has a lot of value for the players,"
Team
USA captain Spider Miller said. "It's likely the bulk of
the
team will come from this pool of players, it doesn't
mean that they all will but likely most of them will."
The 16 players at the practice session included
Dawson
Armstrong (Lipscomb), Sean Crocker (USC), Brad
Dalke
(Oklahoma), Doug Ghim (Texas), Gavin Hall (Texas),
Stewart Hagestad (Mid-Amateur), Scott Harvey (Mid-
Amateur), Nick Hardy (Illinois), Rico Hoey (USC),
Maverick McNealy (Stanford), Dylan Meyer (Illinois),
Collin Morikawa (California), John Oda (UNLV),
Scottie
Scheffler (Texas), Jimmy Stanger (Virginia) and
Will Zalatoris (Wake Forest).
