newly minted U.S. Amateur champion Mason Howell<\/a>, Oklahoma\u2019s Jase Summy, Texas\u2019 Tommy Morrison, Notre Dame\u2019s Jacob Modleski and mid-amateur Stewart Hagestad.<\/p>\nWorld No. 1 Jackson Koivun of Auburn was among the earlier selections, along with Virginia\u2019s Ben James, Ole Miss\u2019 Michael La Sasso, and Oklahoma State teammates Preston Stout and Ethan Fang.<\/p>\n
This will be Hagestad\u2019s fifth Walker Cup as he was on winning teams in 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023. Summy was coming off winning the Western Amateur while Modleski was a semifinalist at the Western and a quarterfinalist at Olympic. Morrison solidified his spot by making match play at the Western and U.S. amateurs.<\/p>\n
Howell earned an automatic spot with his 7-and-6 win over Jackson Herrington.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously runner-up comes with a lot of perks, but so does the champion,\u201d Howell said. \u201cWe thought about that and made that one of our big goals. We didn\u2019t want to sleep on today and get too comfortable with how yesterday went. The Walker Cup is such a great venue this year, it\u2019s one I felt I didn\u2019t want to miss with this opportunity in my hands. Didn\u2019t want to let it slip through. I\u2019m really pumped to be part of that team with so many great players.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among those left off the team were high-schooler Miles Russell, who also made the quarters this week and would\u2019ve been the youngest Walker Cupper ever at 16 years old, and mid-amateur Evan Beck, the reigning U.S. Mid-Amateur champion.<\/p>\n
The 50th Walker Cup, which pits a team of 10 U.S. amateurs against those from Great Britain and Ireland, will take place Sept. 6-7 at Cypress Point Club in Pebble Beach, California. The GB&I team will be finalized Monday. Englishmen Tyler Weaver, Luke Poulter and Dominic Clemons, and Scotland\u2019s Cameron Adam were named to that squad earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Scotland\u2019s Niall Shiels Donegan, who advanced to the semifinals of the U.S. Amateur amid a wave of support from his hometown of nearby Mill Valley, is among the contenders for the remaining GB&I spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 The U.S. Walker Cup team for next month\u2019s match at Cypress Point is complete. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-91995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}