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U.S. Amateur Champion Moore Heads
USA Men's World Team
Aug.
24, 2004
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Far Hills, N.J. -Ryan Moore, 21, of Puyallup, Wash., who won
the U.S. Amateur and U.S. Amateur Public Links championships in
2004, heads a three-man USA team selected to compete in the Men's
World Amateur Championship from Oct. 28-31 in Puerto Rico.
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| Ryan Moore won the U.S. Amateur Public
Links and U.S. Amateur this year. (USGA Photo Archives) |
Spencer Levin, 20, of Elk Grove, Calif., who tied for 13th at the 2004 U.S. Open, and Lee Williams, 21, of Alexander City,
Ala., who in 2003 finished second at the NCAA Division I Championship
and was a semifinalist at the U.S. Amateur, were also named by
the International Team Selection Committee of the United States
Golf Association. The team will be among the more than 60 squads
competing in the 72-hole event at Rio Mar Country Club in Rio
Grande, Puerto Rico. Moore and Williams were part of the 10-man
2003 USA Walker Cup squad, also named by the USGA.
Luke List, 19, of Ringgold, Ga., the runner-up at the 2004 Amateur,
is the first alternate.
The championship is conducted by the International Golf Federation,
which comprises national governing bodies of golf in 100 countries.
It is played in conjunction with the Women's World Amateur Team
Championship, which will be played on the same courses Oct. 20-23.
A country may field a team of two or three players. In each
round, the total of the two lowest scores by players from each
team constitutes the team score for the round. The four-day total
is the team's score for the championship.
The competition has been played every two years since 1958 for
the Eisenhower Trophy. The USA is the defending champion, having
won the 2002 championship in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Moore, a senior at UNLV, is the first to win the Amateur Public
Links title and the Amateur in the same year. He is also the
fifth golfer to win two USGA championships in the same year.
He has been the best player in amateur golf this summer, additionally
winning the NCAA Division I championship and the Western Amateur.
He has played 39 of his last 41 competitive stroke play rounds
at par or better. In 2003, he made the cut at the Masters Tournament,
to which he received an invitation as the 2002
APL
winner.
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| Levin |
In 2004, Levin had the best finish by an amateur at a U.S. Open
since Jim Simons tied for fifth in 1971. The junior at the University
of New Mexico also won several top amateur events in the two-year
consideration period, including the 2003 Azalea and the 2004 Porter
Cup. Closer to home, he won the 2004 Northern California and
California State Amateurs. He reached the third round of match
play at the 2004 U.S. Amateur.
Williams, a senior at Auburn University, has a record of consistency
for 2003-04, with seven top-10 finishes. In addition to his play
at the NCAA and Amateur championships in 2003, this year he was
fourth at the Porter Cup, fifth at the Southern Amateur, sixth
at the Cardinal Amateur and eighth at the Azalea.
List, a sophomore at Vanderbilt University, moved into the spotlight
at the 2004 Amateur, where he led for 27 holes before being overtaken
by Moore in the final two holes of the 36-hole championship final.
The long-hitting List also was a semifinalist at the 2003 Amateur
Public Links.
Moore, Levin and List have already earned full exemptions into
the 2005 U.S. Open.
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| Williams |
Trey Holland, USGA President and joint chairman of the IGF in
2000-2001, is the team captain. Cora Jane Blanchard of Edina,
Minn., the USGA Women's Committee chairman in 2001-2002 will captain
the previously announced USA Women's World Team of Paula Creamer,
Sarah Huarte and Jane Park.
The championship is rotated biennially among three geographic
zones: Asia-Pacific, American, and European-African. The 2004
competition is hosted by the Puerto Rico Golf Association.
For more information, please contact the USGA at (908) 234-2300. |
