San Francisco – Georgia Teen Mason Howell declined a productive summer for his last year of high school by winning the American amateur in the Olympic club on Sunday only two months after participating in his first US Open.
The 18-year-old Howell ran to a big lead on Tennessee-Teen Jackson Herrington on the opening of 18 holes and then won the 36-hole final, 7 and 6, to become the youngest American amateur champion since Byeong at the age of 17 at the age of 17 in 2009 in Southern Hills in Tulsa, Olahoma.
Howell won it with a par to bind the 30th hole, so that the most running final was terminated, because Bryson Deschambeau also defeated Derek Bard, 7 and 6, in 2015. Howell invitations earned the victory to the Masters, US Open and the open next year.
This was the first American amateur final with two teenagers since Matt Fitzpatrick Oliver Goss defeated in 2013, and Howell showed the calmness of a much more experienced golfer by making repeated coupling hits while Herrington made repeated mistakes.
Howell won 11 holes, eight of them with pars. He also responded after all four gaps he lost and won the next gap every time.
Howell burst on stage when he qualified for the US Open this year with rounds of 63-63 of the sectional Atlanta. He was unable to cut at Oakmont, but used that experience this week at the Olympic club.
He was one of the 17 players who continue of a play-off of 20 men to make the competition area of ​​the tournament, where he won all six games.
Howell won five of the six holes on the front nine of the opening of 18-hole-included an eagle at number 7-to take a lead of four holes. He increased the lead to five with a Birdie on the Par-5 16th Hole when his steady well helped to keep Herrington at a distance.
Herrington closed the first 18 with a Birdie on the Par-5 18th to return within four. But he then bogged the first three holes after the lunch break to fall six and never really threatened the rest of the road.
Howell is now getting ready for his last year of high school before going to the university at the University of Georgia in 2026.
The 19-year-old Herrington is about to start his second season at the university in Tennessee.
This is the fourth American amateur that is held in the Olympic club. Charles Coe (1958), Nathaniel Crosby (1981) and Cole Knost (2007) won the others.
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