Matt Fitzpatrick named SGA Amateur of Month
30 Aug 2013
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Matthew Fitzpatrick
BIRMINGHAM, ALA – English teen Matthew
Fitzpatrick has been named the Southern Golf
Association’s National Amateur of
the Month for July. Fitzpatrick, 18, won on the
strength of his victory in the USGA Amateur
Championship, the world’s top-
rated amateur tournament.
Fitzpatrick defeated Aussie Oliver Gross,
4 and 3, in the 36-hole final match at The
Country Club in Brookline, Mass.
The winner headed up a group of foreign-born
competitors in an event that was without an
American among the four
semifinalists.
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
-
May: Max Homa, Cal | More
- June: Cory Whitsett, Alabama
| More
- July: Zachary Olsen, Okla.
State |
More
|
In selection panel voting, Fitzpatrick, who
is headed to Northwestern University for his
freshman year, narrowly
defeated Oklahoma State soph Jordan
Niebrugge, who was accorded honorable
mention after stringing together victories
three straight weeks. However, only his hat
trick-clinching triumph in the prestigious
Western Amateur was contested in
August.
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, Alabama’s
Cory Whitsett and Southern Am champ
Zachary Olsen.
The coveted award 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.