Zalatoris Invited to Walker Cup Practice
11/18/2014 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
By Erika Carrubba, Wake Forest Athletic Communications (@WakeMGolf)
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -The United States Golf Association named Wake Forest freshman Will Zalatoris as one of 16 top amateur players selected for the Walker Cup practice sessions. The practices will take place Dec. 17-20 at Frederica Golf Club on St. Simons Island, Ga.Zalatoris is off to a hot start in his Wake Forest career. He had a team-best stroke average of 70.18 in the fall and earned his first collegiate win at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate. Last summer, Zalatoris won the US Junior Amateur Championship and the Texas State Amateur Championship. He has risen to the No. 7 ranked amateur in the World Amateur Golf Rankings.
There have been 15 different Demon Deacon named to previous Walker Cup Teams, including five under head coach Jerry Haas. Wake Forest's most recent Walker Cup participants have been Brendan Gielow (2009), Webb Simpson (2007), Kyle Reifers (2005) and Bill Haas (2003). Jerry Haas was a member of the victorious 1985 American team.
Among the 16 men invited to the session are five USGA champions and only one previous Walker cup participant. The Walker Cup is contested biennially in odd numbered years between teams comprising the leading amateur golfers of the United States and Great Britain and Ireland. The 45th Walker Cup Match will be contested Sept. 12-13, 2015, at Royal Lytham and St. Annes Golf Club in Lancashire, England. An invitation to the practice session does not guarantee a spot on the team. The USGA's International Team Selection Committee chooses the final 10-man squad.
The Walker Cup Match consists of four foursomes (alternate-shot) matches on both mornings of the two-day competition, with eight singles matches on the first afternoon and 10 singles matches on the final afternoon.
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