Here it is getting good, people. The amateur of 2025 United States has fallen to eight, and those four games go on Friday afternoon in the Olympic club in San Francisco.
And the remaining participants? It is a solid group. First, Here are the matchups (all time et):
4.30 pm – Scotland (Scotland) vs. Jacob Modleski (Indi)
4.45 pm – Jimmy Abdo (Minnesota) vs. Jackson Herrington (Tennessee)
5 pm – Mason Howell (Georgia) vs. John Daly II (Arkanas)
5:15 pm – Miles Russell (Florida) vs. Eric Lee (California)
Where to start? It could be with ABDO, the 4,292nd ranked amateur in the world, an emerging second-year student in a small III school division (Gustavus Adolphus College) in Minnesota.
Or maybe with Daly, the son of two -time big champion John Daly. Or maybe Russell, who became the youngest player at the age of 15 at the age of 15 who made the cut in a Korn Ferry Tour tournament. And then there is Shiels Donegan, whose family moved to the Bay Area when he was 3. This is essentially a home game for him, and that turned out during a wild interview after the round on Thursday.
But let’s go back to ABDO first, who was the underdog this week.
He did not play tournaments until he was in high school and admitted that he was not ‘something special’ in high school. When he slowly started to improve, he got a number of larger events. This was his first time he tried to qualify for the American amateur. Now he is in the quarters.
“I never felt that I was ready. I never really came up in high school,” he said. “That kind of adding to this underdog -story where no one really believes I am able to play Golf so well. I know I am that, and I had that confidence, even when I was in high school. I did not play in the state tournament on the Line -up until the junior year of the secondary school, and that was not too difficult to be in your top in your top to be in your top in your top to be in your top in your top to be in your top in your top in your top. Had gravel and I am going on and I am here. “
Although it may be surprising for ABDO to get it that far, the same cannot be said for a few others, including Modleski (the 15th ranking amateur), Russell (16th) and Lee (29th).
Russell, at the age of only 16, is the top-ranged junior amateur in the world. His list of performance and distinctions is longer than most in the field, and it includes things like the surplus of Tiger Woods as the youngest winner of the AJGA Rolex Boys Player of the Year Award, which he did in 2023.
On Friday afternoon, Russell will be confronted with Lee, a 20-year-old rising junior in Oklahoma State, who earned the winning point for the cowboys in the NCAA National Championship 2025 not so long ago.
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