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Meet the 2019 USA Walker Cup Team
As of July 24, 2019
Akshay Bhatia, 17, Wake Forest, N.C.
No. 4 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking
Runner-up in 2018 U.S. Junior Amateur at Baltusrol Golf Club, losing, 1 down, to Michael Thorbjornsen, in 36-hole final
2019 Jones Cup champion
2018 American Junior Golf Association’s Player of the Year
2018 Sage Valley Junior Invitational champion
2018 Polo Junior Golf Classic champion
2017 Boys Junior PGA Championship winner
Member of victorious 2017 USA Junior Ryder Cup Team
Competed in PGA Tour’s 2019 Valspar Championship
Made 36-hole cut in Korn Ferry Tour’s Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Championship (T-42)
Lost in 19 holes in Round of 64 of 2018 U.S. Amateur at Pebble Beach
Invited to practice session for 2019 USA Walker Cup hopefuls (December 2018)
Plays left-handed
Stewart Hagestad, 28, Newport Beach, Calif.
No. 5 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (No. 1 mid-amateur in the world)
Member of the victorious 2017 USA Walker Cup Team
2016 U.S. Mid-Amateur champion (defeated Scott Harvey in 37 holes)
Qualified for the 2017, 2018 and 2019 U.S. Opens at Erin Hills, Shinnecock Hills and Pebble Beach Golf Links, respectively
In 2017, he became the first invited U.S. Mid-Amateur champion to make the 36-hole cut in the Masters, where he tied for 36th and was the low amateur
Advanced to the semifinals of the 2018 U.S. Mid-Amateur
Advanced to the Round of 16 in the 2018 U.S. Amateur
2016 Metropolitan Golf Association Amateur champion
Runner-up in 2019 Players Amateur
Runner-up in 2019 Northeast Amateur
Graduated from the University of Southern California
Invited to practice session for 2019 USA Walker Cup hopefuls (December 2018)
Cole Hammer, 19, Houston, Texas
No. 1 in World Amateur Golf Ranking
2018 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball champion with partner Garrett Barber
Semifinalist in 2018 U.S. Amateur at Pebble Beach
Semifinalist in 2018 U.S. Junior Amateur at Baltusrol Golf Club
Member of 2018 USA World Amateur Team that finished second in Ireland
Qualified for 2015 U.S. Open at Chambers Bay at age of 15
Member of 2019 USA Palmer Cup Team
Helped Texas to runner-up finish in 2019 NCAA Championship in Fayetteville, Ark. (defeated 2019 NCAA individual champion Matthew Wolff in semifinal match)
Registered 69.44 stroke average in 9 college events as a freshman, tying for first twice
Recipient of 2019 Phil Mickelson Award for college golf’s Freshman of the Year
2018 Western Amateur champion
2018 Azalea Amateur champion
Member of victorious 2017 USA Junior Presidents Cup Team
Member of 2016 USA Junior Ryder Cup Team
2016 American Junior Golf Association first-team All-American
Invited to practice session for 2019 USA Walker Cup hopefuls (December 2018)
