Southern Am winner Zachary Olsen SGA Player of Month
01 Aug 2013
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Zachary Olsen
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. (Aug. 1, 2013) – Youthful, Oklahoma State-bound
Zachary Olsen of Cordova, TN has been selected as the Southern Golf
Association’s National Amateur of the Month for July after capturing
the 107th Southern Amateur at The Club at Carlton Woods near
Houston.
Olsen, who had just turned 19 and was one of the youngest players in
the field, won in dramatic fashion by sinking a 12-foot putt on the
72nd hole to climb into a 3-man playoff, then won the title by sinking
a 20-footer for birdie on the first extra hole.
Recent SGA Ams of the
Month Winners-
September: Nathan Smith,
U.S. Mid-Am | More
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October: Meghan Stasi, U.S. Women's
Mid-Am | More
- March: Patrick Rodgers, Stanford |
More
- April:
Tianlang Guan, Masters | More
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May: Max Homa, Cal | More
June: Cory Whitsett, Alabama | More
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The incoming freshman for the Oklahoma State golf team won
the storied event against a field loaded with world-ranked amateurs
by posting a 12-under total of 276 on the long and difficult Carlton
Woods layout to gain a spot in the playoff against Alabama-
Birmingham senior Sam Love and Georgia senior Joey Garber.
Among the world top-10 ams in Olsen’s wake were Alabama
stars Corey Whitsett and Bobby Wyatt, U.S. Amateur runnerup
Michael Weaver and Australian Brady Watt. The victory gained Olsen a
spot in the PGA Tour’s Arnold Palmer Invitational next March in
Orlando.
July honorable mention went to USGA Public Links winner Jordan
Niebrugge, who will be one of Olsen’s teammates at Oklahoma State.
The Am of the Month award is selected by a national, blue-
ribbon panel of golf officials, coaches and journalists. This year’s
previous winners of the March-thru-October award were Stanford’s
Patrick Rodgers, Chinese teen Masters sensation Guan Tianlang, Cal’s
Max Homa and Whitsett. The honor is one of the ways the SGA
promotes and advances amateur golf, including its storied Southern
Amateur, the 108th playing scheduled next July at the exclusive
Honors Course near Chattanooga.