Not originally in the Walker Cup squad at the start of 2015 he simply played his way on to the roster by being one of GB&I’s most consistent performers during the year.He started off with a string of good finishes on Scottish Golf’s early season tour of South Africa before returning home to win the Scottish Champion of Champions and Craigmillar Park Open events.He followed that up with a tied 3rd at the Irish Amateur Open, a tied 4th at the Scottish Open Amateur, a satisfactory Amateur Championship and a tied 11th at the Brabazon Trophy. A total of 26 matches will be played; singles and foursomes. I also make no apologies for a little GB&I bias here.Some people say Miguel Ángel Jiménez is the ‘most interesting man in golf’. Report this profile; About. He is a player who still looks very young and has not filled out and as a result is under-estimated by nearly everyone who watches and plays against him. He secured an impressive quarter final win over Cormac Sharvin at the European Team’s but followed it with a disappointing late loss to Greig Marchbank in the semi’s that let in Scotland. PGA TOUR. It was that first result that drove his amateur rankings standing – rightly or wrongly it earned him way more points than DeChambeau got for winning either the U.S. Finally, he was also a member of the Scottish Team that won the European Amateur Team Championship in Sweden.Very much like Danish Pro Thorbjørn Olesen a pretty ordinary year was made special by a great week in St. Andrews. So there is still plenty of golf to be played before any decisions have to be made. 1 Junior in 2015 – well at least in the eyes of our American friends.In the 36 hole final at Collation River Plantation Club, South Carolina, Barbaree found himself 5 down with 8 holes to play against Andrew Orischak. Inevitably as the match draws closer the 10-man GB&I team is starting to take shape.Putting aside the softer team attributes the Selection Committee will be looking for (and of which I have next to no knowledge) and simply taking an objective assessment of 2015 performances and possible foursome pairings I believe there are now just 14 players who have a chance of making the GB&I Team.
He may not have got the results he was looking for – save for The Open which he also chose to and had to qualify for – but hopefully the experience will stand him in good stead for the future.He was selected for the U.S. Walker Cup team at Royal Lytham, largely on the back of his Open result.
Watch Morning Drive on Golf Channel. Ben, ending his college career at the Championship, sunk the winning 8-foot putt in the final match against the University of South Carolina. The latter – which Scotland won – are particularly important as it has seen nearly all of the main protagonists playing the same course and in some cases competing directly against each other.On 23rd January 2015 The R&A announced an initial 20-man GB&I Walker Cup squad. As mentioned above the Squad are formally meeting up at Lytham on 21st and 22nd July 2015. It was LSU’s first national title since 1955.This was Ben’s second National Title. He then tied 11th at the International European Amateur in Slovakia and reached the quarter-finals of the US Amateur Match Play stage in late August.He finished the season by turning Pro where he quickly settled in; a tied 19th at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and a tied 25th at the British Masters being the early highlights. He was conceded the winning putt in LSU’s semi-final match against Georgia too after hitting a 6-iron close. Cheng Jin is certainly the latest child prodigy to come out of China and make a global name for themselves.He won the 2015 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship after a first round course record 62 and as a result will tee it up in the 2016 Masters Tournament.More recently at the Thailand Golf Championships Darren Clarke described him as “the best 17 year old I’ve seen since Rory McIlroy – seriously impressed.” Cheng Jin finished the event, won by Jamie Donaldson, tied 11th.Ewen, who turned 19 in July, enjoyed a fine season culminating in his selection for the GB&I Walker Cup team. Every amateur golf season seems to be memorable for some reason but as I look back on 2015 I can’t help but think this year has been extra special.We have seen exciting Championships, notable Major and Tour performances by amateurs and to cap it all off a stunning Walker Cup success for Great Britain & Ireland (GB&I).
I have split them into Certainties, Probables and Possibles and ranked them all in the order in which I would currently select them: –From my short list of 14 players 11 (as shown in brackets above) were in the initial Walker Cup Squad. He certainly won more events than any other GB&I amateur golfer.He destroyed three Junior U18 fields, easily winning the Faldo Series Wales Qualifier (+2, to win by 6 shots), the McEvoy Trophy (-12, to win by 8 shots) and the Sir Henry Cooper Masters (-14, to win by 7 shots).He capped the year off by winning the Carrick Neill Scottish Open Stroke Play (-6), his first Men’s win against a strong field at Moray GC.He also got to the quarter finals of the English Men’s Amateur and reached the semi-finals of the British Boys, eventually losing to the winner, Marcus Svensson. Not many people do that same season double – to be precise just Jack Nicklaus (1961), Phil Mickelson (1990), Tiger Woods (1996) and Ryan Moore (2004) have done it before him.He beat Derek Bard 7&6 in the 36-hole U.S. It is easy to be different, it is another to win different – which is what he’s being doing.Bryson, let’s call him that because I am sure we all will be soon – as in Tiger and Rory – won both the U.S. Amateur or the NCAA Division I title.Stanford’s Maverick McNealy had an astonishing 6 wins and 9 top 5’s in the 2014/15 US College season. Amateur final at Chicago’s Olympia Fields, having already secured the NCAA title by finishing 1-shot ahead of Washington’s Cheng-Tsung Pan with a 280 (-8) total at the Concession CC in Florida.Despite a saw neck at Royal Lytham he won two and halved one of his three matches at The Walker Cup in September too.With Southern Methodist University (SMU) kicked out of the 2016 NCAA’s due to historic recruiting violations DeChambeau has recently left college – not finishing his Physics Major – and started to compete in professional events as he looks forward to taking up his Masters invitation in April. Get to know Ben Taylor, Titleist Golf Ambassador.
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