Guan named SGA Player of the Month
05 May 2013
see also: Guan Tianlang Rankings
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Tianlang Guan
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (April 30, 2013) -- History-
making
Masters sensation Guan Tianlang, 14,
has been selected as the Southern Golf
Association’s
National Amateur of the Month for
April. The Chinese schoolboy became the
youngest-
ever competitor at the Masters, then
promptly became the youngest player ever to
make
the cut in one of golf’s four major
championships.
Guan, from Guangzhou, China, wowed the
golf
world by making the Masters 36-hole
cut despite a controversial one-shot slow-play
penalty. His 73-75 first two rounds made
him the only one of six amateurs to make the
cut and
thus won the honor as low am in
the Masters.
Recent SGA Ams of the Month
Winners
- March: J.J. Spaun, San Diego
State | More
- April: Justin Thomas, Alabama |
More
- May: Justin Thomas, Alabama |
More
- June: Peter Williamson,
Southern
Am Champ | More
- August: Steven Fox, U.S.
Amateur
Champ | More
- September: Nathan Smith, U.S.
Mid-Am | More
- October: Meghan Stasi, U.S.
Women's Mid-Am | More
- March: Patrick Rodgers,
Stanford |
More
|
Later in April, Guan affirmed his rare talent by
shooting a 3-under-par, second-round 69 to
also make the cut in the Zurich/New Orleans
PGA Tour
event -- where he was granted a
sponsor exemption into the field.
At Augusta, he won additional respect
from the
golf world with his classy response
to the penalty ruling. Guan had gained an
invitation to
the Masters by winning the Asia-
Pacific Amateur Championship last summer.
The Am of the Month award is selected
by a
national, blue-ribbon panel of golf
officials, coaches and journalists. This year’s
previous
winner of the March-thru-October
award was Stanford golfer Patrick Rodgers.
The
honor
is one of the ways the SGA
promotes and advances amateur golf,
including
its
storied Southern Amateur, the 107th
playing scheduled for July at The Club at
Carlton
Woods outside Houston, and the
Southern Junior, set for play in June in
Richmond, Va.