Here begins to do well, people. The United States amateurs of 2025 are in eight, and those four games begin on Friday afternoon at the Olympic Club in San Francisco.
And the remaining participants? A strong group is. Firstly Here are matches (All times et):
4:30 Afternoon – Scotland (Scotland) vs Jacob Modleski (India)
4:45 PM – Jimmy ABDO (Minnesota) vs Jackson Herington (Tennesses)
5 afternoon – Mason Howell (Georgia) vs John Daly II (Arkanas)
5:15 Afternoon – Miles Russell (Florida) Vs Eric Lee (California)
Where to start? It can be with ABDO, Rangut 4,292 amateur in the world, a growing mahogany in a small school of Division III (Gustavus Adolphus College) in Minnesota.
Or maybe with Daly, the son of Big champion John Daly twice. Or maybe Russell, who last year at the age of 15 became The youngest player to make the cut on a Korn Tragedy Tour tour. And then is Shiels Dongan, whose family moved to the Gulf area when he was 3 years old. This is essentially a home game for her, and she showed during a wild interview after the round on Thursday.
But first, let’s go back to ABDO, who has been subjected to this week.
He did not play tour as he was in high school and admitted he was “nothing special” in high school. As he slowly began to improve, he got into some bigger events. This was his first time trying to qualify for the American amateur. Now he is in the neighborhoods.
“I never felt like I was ready. Going out of high school, I never really recruited,” he said. “This kind of adds to this subjugated story, where no one really believes I am capable of playing good golf like this. I know I am, and I have had that confidence even when I was in high school. I did not play in the tournament of the tournament, until the new high school year, and in high school is not very difficult to work on. to, and now I’m here. “
While it may be surprising for Abdo to do this away, the same cannot be said for some others, including Modleski (15th Rangut), Russell (16) and Lee (29).
Russell, at the age of only 16, is a new amateur of the highest rank in the world. His list of achievements and tuning is longer than most in the field, and includes things like Tiger Woods exceeding the newest winner of the Rolex Boys Player of the Year, which he did in 2023.
On Friday afternoon, Russell will face Lee, a 20-year-old growing new in Oklahoma State who not long ago won the winning point for Cowboys at the NCAA 2025 National Championship.
