WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – All-America candidate Herman Sekne has been chosen to represent Norway at the 2022 World Amateur Team Championship, announced recently by the Norwegian Golf Federation.
The World Amateur Team Championships are a biennial international amateur golf competition conducted by the International Golf Federation which comprises 151 national governing bodies of golf in 146 countries and 22 international professional tours and organizations conducting major championships.
The IGF is recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the international federation for golf. In addition to the World Amateur Team Championships, the IGF also organizes the golf competitions at the Olympic Games and the Youth Olympic Games.
The competition for the Eisenhower Trophy will begin on Aug. 31, near Paris. Sekne will be one of three Norwegians competing at Le Golf National (Albatros Course) and Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Breteche (Red Course), as the event features the world’s leading amateurs playing more than 72 holes of stroke play.
Le Golf National was the site of the 2018 Ryder Cup and will also play host to the Olympic Games Paris 2024 while Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Brèteche hosted the prestigious Trophée Lancôme for 34 years.
Sekne becomes the second Purdue golfer to play in the event, after Jarle Volden competed in 2018, also for Team Norway.
Sekne, a junior from Oslo, has one of the top-statistical seasons in Purdue history, ranking second (behind Williamson) in stroke average (71.17) and his nine rounds in the 60s were the fourth most in school history. He won back-to-back events at the Rich Harvest Farms Intercollegiate and Purdue Fall Invitational and was selected as the Big Ten Golfer of the Week four times – the second most honors in Big Ten history. Sekne had three tournaments this year of 205 or lower, the most in school history, and had five top-10 finishes in 10 events.
For his career, he ranks first in stroke average (72.25) by over half-a-stroke in front of Eoff (72.82). Sekne was a first-team All-Big Ten selection.
Sekne finished the 2022 season ranked 64th nationally by Golfstat and is currently ranked No. 145 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings.
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