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Team Rosters & Bios Meet the GETTeams TO KNOW THE CAPTAINS AND THE MAN TEAMS THEY WILL LEAD INTO COMPETITION FOR THE TH WALKER CUP Captains NATHANIEL CROSBY STUART WILSON CAPTAIN, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CAPTAIN, GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND Nathaniel Crosby will captain Stuart Wilson will captain Great the USA Walker Cup Team for Britain and Ireland for the fi rst a second time after guiding the time in the Walker Cup at Sem- side to a come-from-behind, inole Golf Club. He also played 15.5-10.5 victory two years ago in the 39th match at Ganton in at Royal Liverpool in Hoylake, 2003 when he was a member England. Crosby, a Seminole of the winning GB&I team that Golf Club member, captured prevailed 12½-11½. Wilson has the 1981 U.S. Amateur at The been captain for GB&I in the Olympic Club and later played Jacques Leglise Trophy and for on the victorious 1983 Walker Europe in the Junior Ryder Cup Cup Team at Royal Liverpool. in 2012 and 2014. He is the son of the legendary entertainer Bing Crosy, a fi ne As an amateur golfer, Wilson won the Lytham Trophy in golfer in his own right who competed in the U.S. Amateur and 2003 and The Amateur Championship at St Andrews the British Amateur. following year, when he defeated 2018 Champion Golfer Fran- Following his U.S. Amateur victory, a 37-hole decision over cesco Molinari in the quarterfi nals. He was the Silver Medal Brian Lindley, Crosby went on to earn low-amateur honors in the winner as the low amateur in The 133rd Open at Royal Troon 1982 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach (Calif.) Golf Links. He also earned in 2004 and played in the 2005 Masters Tournament. He also invitations to the 1982, 1983 and 1984 Masters Tournaments, and represented GB&I in the Palmer Cup and the St Andrews Tro- competed in The Open Championship in 1982 and 1983. phy, Europe in the Bonallack Trophy and Scotland in the World Besides his U.S. Amateur victory, Crosby also captured the Amateur Team Championships. prestigious Porter Cup at Niagara Falls Country Club in Lew- Wilson is a member of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of iston, N.Y. He played his college golf at the University of Miami St Andrews and is the Managing Secretary of Blairgowrie (Fla.) and was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2005. Golf Club. USGACHRIS KEANE; ALAN RICHARDSON USGACHRIS 40 THE TH WALKER CUP MATCH THE TH WALKER CUP MATCH 41 IntroCaptains_2021_WalkerCup.indd 41 4/12/21 2:10 PM STEWART HAGESTAD JOHN PAK , NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. , SCOTCH PLAINS, N.J. Hagestad was a member of the Pak won all three of his matches winning 2017 and 2019 USA as a member of the victorious Walker Cup Teams and has a 2019 USA Walker Cup Team. He combined 3-2 record in the two tied for 51st and was low amateur competitions. Hagestad, who in the U.S. Open last September has competed in three U.S. at Winged Foot Golf Club. A Opens, reached the quarterfi- senior at Florida State Universi- nals of the 2020 U.S. Amateur. ty, Pak earned All-America and He has played in 21 USGA All-South Region recognition for United States championships and won the 2016 the third straight year in 2019- U.S. Mid-Amateur. Hagestad 20. Pak, who has played in nine also won a gold medal in the USGA championships, reached of mixed-team competition of the 2019 Pan American Games, the Round of 16 in the 2019 U.S. Amateur at Pinehurst and America Team in Lima, Peru, and was the low amateur in the 2017 Masters advanced to the quarterfinals (2015) and semifinals (2016) in Tournament. the U.S. Junior Amateur. RICKY CASTILLO QUADE CUMMINS COLE HAMMER TYLER STRAFACI , YORBA LINDA, CALIF. , WEATHERFORD, OKLA. , HOUSTON, TEXAS , DAVIE, FLA. In 2020, Castillo earned an Cummins has competed in three Hammer helped the USA to Strafaci won the 2020 U.S. exemption into the U.S. Open consecutive U.S. Amateurs victory in the 2019 Walker Cup at Amateur and also claimed the at Winged Foot, advanced to (2018-20). As a fifth-year senior Royal Liverpool Golf Club. He has North & South Amateur, becom - the semifinals of the Western at the University of Oklahoma, competed in 12 USGA champion - ing just the fourth player to win Amateur and was a member of he was a first-team All-Ameri - ships, including two U.S. Opens, both championships in the same the USA Arnold Palmer Cup can in 2019-20 and posted three and advanced to the semifinals in year. His grandfather, Frank, won Team. Castillo received the top-10 finishes in the fall of 2020. both the U.S. Amateur and U.S. the 1935 U.S. Amateur Public NCAA Division I Phil Mickelson Cummins finished third in the Junior Amateur in 2018. Hammer Links. Tyler, who competed in Outstanding Freshman Award 2020 Southern Amateur and tied won the 2018 U.S. Amateur Four- the 2018 U.S. Open at Shinnecock and was a first-team All-Amer - for fourth in the Sunnehanna Ball with partner Garrett Barber Hills, has played in seven USGA ican at the University of Florida Amateur the following week. In and was the third-youngest championships, including four in 2019-20. Additionally, he won December, he made the 36-hole player to compete in a U.S. Open U.S. Amateurs. As a member of two individual tournament titles and was chosen first-team cut in the PGA Tour’s Mayakoba Golf Classic. Cummins won when he played at Chambers Bay at age 15 in 2015. Hammer is the Georgia Tech program through December 2020, Strafaci All-Southeastern Conference. Castillo has played in three U.S. the 2019 Pacific Coast Amateur and was a member of two USA a junior at the University of Texas. earned honorable mention All-America honors. Amateurs and three U.S. Junior Amateurs. Arnold Palmer Cup Teams (2019, 2020). PIERCESON COODY AUSTIN ECKROAT WILLIAM MOUW DAVIS THOMPSON , PLANO, TEXAS , EDMOND, OKLA. , CHINO, CALIF. , ST. SIMONS ISLAND, GA. Coody won the 118th Western Eckroat, who played in the 2019 Mouw has played in three U.S. Thompson competed in the 2020 Amateur last August. Coody U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, Amateurs and twice advanced U.S. Open and carded a first- and his twin brother, Parker, earned second-team All-America to the Round of 16, in 2018 at round 69 at Winged Foot Golf are juniors at the University of recognition as a junior at Oklaho - Pebble Beach and 2020 at Bandon Club. In 2020, he was a quarter - Texas and are the grandsons of ma State University in 2019-20. Dunes. Mouw was chosen a first- finalist in the Western Amateur 1971 Masters champion Charles A three-time All-Central Region team All-American as a fresh - and advanced to match play in Coody. In 2019, Pierceson ad - and All-Big 12 Conference selec - man at Pepperdine University in the U.S. Amateur at Bandon vanced to the Round of 16 in the tion, he has played in four U.S. 2019-20, setting the program’s Dunes. Thompson, a senior at the U.S. Amateur at Pinehurst. He Amateurs and advanced to match freshman record with five top-10 University of Georgia, earned also posted a two-stroke victory play in 2019 at Pinehurst. He finishes. Mouw also recorded a first-team All-America honors in the 116th Trans-Mississippi reached the quarterfinals of the pair of top 10s in the fall of 2020. in 2019-20. Also a member of the Amateur, joining a list of cham - 2017 U.S. Junior Amateur, losing Mouw won the 2019 California 2020 USA Arnold Palmer Cup pions that includes Jack Nicklaus, Ben Crenshaw and Bryson to fellow OSU player and 2020 U.S. Open runner-up Matthew State Amateur and played on the basketball and golf teams at Team, Thompson competed in two PGA Tour events last year DeChambeau. He was a member of the 2020 USA Arnold Wolff. Last December, he tied for 12th in the PGA Tour’s May - Ontario Christian High School. He was a member of the 2020 and tied for 23rd in the RSM Classic. He also tied for second in Palmer Cup Team. akoba Golf Classic. ARCHIVES USGA ARCHIVES USGA USA Arnold Palmer Cup Team. the Jones Cup Invitational in February. 42 THE TH WALKER CUP MATCH THE TH WALKER CUP MATCH 43 USA Team_2021_WalkerCup.indd 43 4/12/21 10:59 PM BEN JONES JOHN MURPHY , ENGLAND , REPUBLIC OF IRELAND Last season, Jones recorded Earlier this year, he finished in the top 10 finishes in the Australian top 10 at the Jones Cup Invitation- Master of the Amateurs, Austra- al at Ocean Forest Golf Club (site lian Men’s Amateur Champion- of the 2001 Walker Cup) in South ship and Ghala Open. In 2019, the Carolina, and Mobile Bay Intercolle- Englishman reached the semi- giate. He also recorded wins in the finals of The Amateur Champi- GCAA Amateur Series – Georgia onship at Portmarnock, finished and Dorado Beach Collegiate in third in the European Amateur 2020. He won the Bearcat Invi- Great Britain Championship and represented tational and Mullingar Scratch England in the European Am - Trophy two years ago and was the ateur Team Championship and 2018 St Andrews Links Trophy win- & Men’s Home Internationals. He played for GB&I in the 2017 ner.
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