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Championship Venue	Pebble Beach (Calif.) Golf Links
Stroke Play Co-Host Venue	Spyglass Hill Golf Course, Pebble Beach, Calif.
Dates of Championship	Aug. 13-19
Architects	Jack Neville and Douglas Grant (Pebble Beach) Robert Trent Jones Sr. (Spyglass Hill)
Opened	1919 (Pebble Beach) 1966 (Spyglass Hill)
Field Size	312
Par/Yardage	Pebble Beach: 7,040 yards/Par 71 Spyglass Hill: 6,993 yards/Par 72 (Yardages/Par subject to change)
Entries Closed	June 27
Entries Accepted	7,463
Eligibility	Any amateur whose Handicap Index does not exceed 2.4
Sectional Qualifying	Sectional qualifying will be conducted at 79 sites from July 2-25.
Exempt players (62)	Shintaro Ban (2018 U.S. Open qualifier; Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Philip Barbaree (2018 U.S. Open qualifier) Garrett Barber (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Luis Fernando Barco (2018 Mexican Amateur champion; Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Zachary Bauchou (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking; Canadian Men's Amateur champion) Jacob Bergeron (2018 U.S. Open qualifier; Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Hugo Bernard (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Hayden Buckley (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Nick Carlson (2016 U.S. Amateur semifinalist) Todd Clements (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Brad Dalke (2016 U.S. Amateur runner-up; 2016 USA World Amateur Team competitor; Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Robin Dawson (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Alex Fitzpatrick (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Luis Gagne (2018 U.S. Open qualifier; Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Oliver Gillberg (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Noah Goodwin (2018 U.S. Open qualifier; 2017 U.S. Junior Amateur champion; Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Will Grimmer (2018 U.S. Open qualifier) Stewart Hagestad (2018 U.S. Open qualifier; 2016 U.S. Mid-Amateur champion; 2017 USA Walker Cup competitor; Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Cole Hammer (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Scott Harvey (2015 USA Walker Cup competitor) Angel Hidalgo (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Daniel Hillier (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Viktor Hovland (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Franklin Huang (2018 U.S. Open qualifier) Matthew Jordan (2017 Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cup competitor; Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Sean Knapp (2017 U.S. Senior Amateur champion) Mark Lawrence Jr. (2017 U.S. Amateur semifinalist) Min Woo Lee (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Yuxin Lin (2017 Asia-Pacific Amateur champion) Hurly Long (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra Coto (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Patrick Martin (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Michael McCoy (2015 USA Walker Cup competitor) David Micheluzzi (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Collin Morikawa (2017 USA Walker Cup competitor; Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) William Mouw (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Zach Murray (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Josh Nichols (2017 U.S. Mid-Amateur runner-up) John Pak (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Matt Parziale (2018 U.S. Open qualifier; 2017 U.S. Mid-Amateur champion) Dylan Perry (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Gian-Marco Petrozzi (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Chandler Phillips (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Garrett Rank (2018 U.S. Open qualifier) Rhett Rasmussen (2018 U.S. Open qualifier) Jovan Rebula (2018 champion of The Amateur Championship conducted by The R&A) Kristoffer Reitan (2018 U.S. Open qualifier; Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Davis Riley (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Dave Ryan (2016 U.S. Senior Amateur champion) Paul Simson (2017 U.S. Senior Amateur runner-up) Alex Smalley (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Tyler Strafaci (2018 U.S. Open qualifier) Justin Suh (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Sahith Theegala (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Braden Thornberry (2018 U.S. Open qualifier; 2017 USA Walker Cup competitor; Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Sami Valimaki (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Jeff Wilson (Low amateur in 2018 U.S. Senior Open) Timothy Wiseman (2018 U.S. Open qualifier) Matthew Wolff (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Shane Wools-Cobb (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Chun-An Yu (2017 U.S. Amateur quarterfinalist; 2018 U.S. Open qualifier; Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking) Andy Zhang (Top 50 in World Amateur Golf Ranking)
2017 Championship	Doc Redman, 19, of Raleigh, N.C., rallied from 2 down with two holes to play by making a 60-foot eagle putt on the 35th hole and an 8-footer for birdie on the par-4 36th to force extra holes, and then had his birdie putt conceded by Doug Ghim on the 37th hole to win the 117th U.S. Amateur at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Quotable	“It’s incredible to add my name to the list of all the champions and to have conquered arguably the best field in amateur golf in a really difficult grind. I beat some of the best players in the world, and I hope that this can catapult me up into that conversation as well going forward.” -- *Doc Redman*
Notable Past Events at Pebble Beach	1929 U.S. Amateur (Harrison R. Johnston) 1940 U.S. Women's Amateur (Betty Jameson) 1947 U.S. Amateur (Robert H. "Skee" Riegel) 1948 U.S. Women's Amateur (Grace S. Lenczyk) 1961 U.S. Amateur (Jack Nicklaus) 1972 U.S. Open (Jack Nicklaus) 1977 PGA Championship (Lanny Wadkins) 1982 U.S. Open (Tom Watson) 1992 U.S. Open (Tom Kite) 1999 U.S. Amateur (David Gossett) 2000 U.S. Open (Tiger Woods) 2010 U.S. Open (Graeme McDowell) PGA Tour's AT&T National Pro-Am (1947-Present) PGA Tour Champions Pure Insurance First Tee Open (2004-Present)
U.S. Amateur in California (8)	1929: Pebble Beach Golf Links, (Harrison R. Johnston) 1947: Pebble Beach Golf Links, (Robert H. "Skee" Riegel) 1958: The Olympic Club, San Francisco (Charles Coe) 1961: Pebble Beach Golf Links (Jack Nicklaus) 1976: Bel-Air Country Club, Los Angeles (Bill Sander) 1981: The Olympic Club, San Francisco (Nathaniel Crosby) 1999: Pebble Beach Golf Links (David Gossett) 2007: The Olympic Club, San Francisco (Colt Knost) 2017: Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades (Doc Redman)
Notable U.S. Amateur Champions	C.B. Macdonald (1895); Walter Travis (1900-01, 1903); Jerome Travers (1907-08, 1912-13); Francis Ouimet (1914, 1931); Charles “Chick” Evans (1916, 1920); Bob Jones (1924-25, 1927-28, 1930); W. Lawson Little (1934-35); John Goodman (1937); Gene Littler (1953); Arnold Palmer (1954); Jack Nicklaus (1959, 1961); Deane Beman (1960, 1963); William C. Campbell (1964); Lanny Wadkins (1970); Jerry Pate (1974); Mark O’Meara (1979); Hal Sutton (1980); Jay Sigel (1982-83); Phil Mickelson (1990); Justin Leonard (1992); Tiger Woods (1994-96); Matt Kuchar (1997); Ryan Moore (2004); Danny Lee (2008); Matthew Fitzpatrick (2013); Bryson DeChambeau (2015)
Notable U.S. Amateur Runners-Up	Charles “Chick” Evans (1912, 1922, 1927); Jerome Travers (1914); Bob Jones (1920, 1926); Francis Ouimet (1920); John Goodman (1932); Frank Stranahan (1950); Deane Beman (1966); Tom Kite (1970); Ben Crenshaw (1972); Scott Hoch (1978); Trip Kuehne (1994); Hunter Mahan (2002); Luke List (2004); Michael Thompson (2007); Patrick Cantlay (2011)
Schedule of Play	Monday, Aug. 13 (Stroke Play, Round 1, 18 holes) Tuesday, Aug. 14 (Stroke Play, Round 2, 18 holes) Wednesday, Aug. 15 (Round of 64, match play) Thursday, Aug. 16 (Round of 32/Round of 16, match play) Friday, Aug. 17 (Quarterfinal matches) Saturday, Aug. 18 (Semifinal matches) Sunday, Aug. 19 (Championship Match, 36 holes)
Television Coverage (All times EDT)	Wednesday, Aug. 15: 5 p.m.-8 p.m. (FS1) Thursday, Aug. 16: 7 p.m.-10 p.m. (FS1) Friday, Aug. 17: 7 p.m.-10 p.m. (FS1) Saturday, Aug. 18: Noon-3 p.m. (Fox) Sunday, Aug. 19: 4:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. (Fox)
Match Play Cut	Low 64 scorers from stroke play qualify for match play. If necessary, a playoff will be conducted to determine the final spots in the match-play draw
Future Sites	2019: Pinehurst Resort & Country Club (Course Nos. 2 and 4), Village of Pinehurst, N.C./Aug. 12-18 2020: Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, Bandon, Ore./Aug. 10-16