From the Trans-
Miss Golf Association
TULSA, Okla. (June 30, 2014) -- Historic
Southern Hills Country Club will play host
to its third Trans-Miss Championship, as
Bryson
DeChambeau defends his title in the
111th playing of the prestigious amateur
championship presented by TaylorMade-
Addidas from July 7-10.
DeChambeau, 20, looks to become the
first
back-to-back winner of this event
since Allen Miller won three times from
1968-
70. World Golf Hall of Fame member
Jack Nicklaus is the other repeat Trans-Miss
champion; Nicklaus won as an amateur
in 1958-59. DeChambeau, a junior at SMU,
last
year shot a final round 69 to win
the Trans-Miss Championship by five
strokes
over Jeremy Saunders and Austin
Cook. DeChambeau in May led SMU to the
quarterfinals of the NCAA men’s golf
team championships before the Mustangs
lost
to eventual national champion
Alabama. The NCAA quarterfinals
appearance
was SMU’s best national finish since
1972.
Incoming University of Texas freshman
Scottie Scheffler, winner of the 2013
U.S. Junior Amateur and ranked second in
the
World Amateur Golf Rankings as of
June 30, is among the 143 players who will
attempt to thwart DeChambeau’s Trans-
Miss title defense. Dallas resident Scheffler,
17, in May played in the PGA Tour’s HP
Byron Nelson Championship on a sponsor’s
exemption. Not only did Scheffler make
the cut, he scored a hole-in-one in the third
round and finished tied for 22nd at 4-
under-par 276 in his PGA Tour debut.
Designed by Perry Maxwell, Southern
Hills
Country Club was established in 1936.
It has played host to three U.S. Opens, four
PGA Championships and six USGA
national championships, including the 2009
U.S. Amateur and first-ever Women’s
Mid-Amateur in 1987. Tiger Woods won the
2007 PGA Championship at Southern
Hills, which was also the site for Retief
Goosen’s 2001 U.S. Open victory.
Southern Hills will play 7,104 yards as a
par
70 for the Trans-Miss. The club first
hosted the annual championship in 1940,
when
Arthur Doering took home the title.
Legendary Pennsylvania amateur William
Hyndman III won the 1968 Trans-Miss at
Southern Hills.
The Trans-Mississippi Golf Association is
one of the oldest and most prestigious
golf organizations in the U.S. Established in
1901, the Trans-Miss is composed of
200 member clubs located throughout the
country. The 2014 field consists of 18
entrants from the state of Oklahoma,
including
five from Tulsa: Lawrence Field,
Brendon Jelley, Andy Johnson, Charlie
Saxon
and Kevin Schultz.
ABOUT THE
Trans-Miss Championship
The Trans-Miss is one of the oldest and
most storied golf tournaments in the United
States.
For 106 years the championship
was played in a match play format.
Past champions include Jack Nicklaus (1958
and 1959), Charles Coe (1947, 1949, 1952 and
1956), Deane Beman (1960), George Archer
(1963), Ben Crenshaw (1972), Gary Koch
(1973), Bob Tway (1978), Mark Brooks (1978)
and other professional tour notables. In
1987 the championship was changed to a mid-
amateur age requirement, and a senior division
was also added. Starting in 2010, the Trans-
Mississippi Championship, returned to its roots
as an
open amateur tournament, and immediately
established itself as a "must-play" among
top collegiate and mid-am players, while
changing to
a 72-hole stroke play format. The field size
starts at
144 players from Trans-
Mississippi Golf Association member clubs (or
players receiving a special invitation from the
Championship Committee). After 36 holes, a cut
is
made to the low 54 and ties who play the final
two
rounds.
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