Top 10 storylines: Williams' Western run
26 Dec 2012
by Golfweek
see also: Chris Williams Rankings
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By Ron Balicki, Golfweek
There were plenty of good stories that
came out of amateur golf this past
season,
exciting, happy
endings as well as disappointing, heart-
breaking endings.
From Steven Fox winning the U.S.
Amateur, to Nathan Smith capturing a
record
fourth U.S. Mid-
Amateur to a 14-year-old from China
qualifying for next year’s Masters -- and a
whole lot more along
the way.
I’ve been covering amateur golf at just
about every level for some 30 years
and it
seems each year
provides its own share of interesting
stories, whether in victory or defeat.
Compiling a list of the best of them for
2012 was difficult, but here is a list of
my
top 10:
Golfweek's Top
10
Stories of 2012
- No. 10: Guan
wins Asian Am | Read
- No. 9:
Peter Williamson's Summer | Read
- No.
8 Rhys Pugh's Comeback | Read
- No. 7:
Chris Williams' Western Am run
|
Read
- No. 6:
Daan Huizing wins Lytham Trophy | Read
- No. 5:
USA dominates World Am Team | Read
- No.
4:
T.J.
Vogel wins U.S. Public Links | Read
- No.
3:
Alan Dunbar wins British Amateur | Read
- No.
2:
Nathan Smith wins 4th U.S. Mid-Am | Read
- No.
1:
Steven Fox wins thrilling U.S. Am | Read
|
No. 7: For the second consecutive year,
Chris Williams, a senior at
Washington,
set a tournament
record in the 72-hole stroke-play
qualifying segment of the Western
Amateur,
this
time topping his
old mark with a 17-under 271 score.
Unlike the previous year when he lost his
opening match,
Williams went on to win all four of his
matches to claim the title in the 110th
Western Am at Exmoor
County Club just outside Chicago.
He clinched the title with a 1-up victory
over recent Texas A&M grad Jordan
Russell in the 18-hole
championship match.
Williams became the first player to win
both medalist and championship
honors
since Danny Lee in
2008. Prior to that, Bubba Dickerson (he
shared medalist honors with Matthew
Abbott) accomplished
the feat in 2001.