Brandon Holtz played his first USGA championship in mid -AM in September, but will not be his last. The 38-year-old from Indiana won the tour at Scottsdale’s Troon country club With a 3-and-2 win over his last match opponent, 28-year-old Jeg Coughlin III. With the victory, Holtz will take an exception in next year’s US Open Shinnecock hills and (likely) an invitation that causes envy for masters in April. The masters have traditionally extended an invitation to each middle of the amaters in the US since 1989.
For Holtz, a 38-year-old realtor and former college basketball player in Illinois State, the opportunity to compete in Augusta National terrain is a realized dream. Holtz played Pro Golf at the Mini Tour Circuit for six years before returning as an amateur in 2024.
“I kept my card for a while just because I liked to play money, and reached the point where I was just playing no more events, so I decided to return my amateur status last year,” Holtz told USA.
In this week’s episode of Subpar, Holtz expressed his excitement to have the opportunity to put him in Augusta with his father in the bag after the two have passed the last two decades following masters as clients.
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“Is it an opportunity once in a lifetime, right?” Holtz told Subpar COLT COLT KNOST AND DREW POLTZ. “Hopefully no, but, you know, let’s be a little more realistic. Yes, he is in the bag. I think the plan is, my brother can be in the open US bag and then we hope to get that invitation for masters and my father is definitely in the bag.
“My father won two (master) tournament for life in 2004,” Holtz continued. “He won the lottery again when they opened it up to everything, so we’ve come down there for 20 years. That makes it a little more special because we realize how special it is. So you just know, walking the bases and say, Oh, what’s behind that rope, what is in that building? We will discover this year.”
Which hole is waiting more Holtz eagerly playing? An allusion – are not what you would expect.
“Those I like to see are No. 2 and No. 6,” he said. “No. 2, for the biggest hitmen who have the opportunity to hit him at No. 2 Green and only because Green’s Crazy, but you can also see how descending that current hole. Many people do not understand how unworthy and how much hill is actually that place, but I really want, (in) No. 14.
