Ross Steelman Invited to Walker Cup Practice – Men’s Golf — Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech senior golfer Ross Steelman is one of 16 amateur players who have been invited to in a practice session Dec. 15-18 for the 2023 Walker Cup Match in Jupiter, Fla. The International Team Selection Committee of the United States Golf Association (USGA) announced the invitations Tuesday.

Steelman, in his second year at Tech following a transfer from the University of Missouri, is currently the No. 22-ranked amateur in the world according to the World Amateur Golf Ranking. The Columbia, Mo., native has reached match play in each of the past two U.S. Amateur Championships, advancing to the quarterfinals in 2021 and falling in the round of 64 last August. He was the stroke-play medalist and advanced to the quarterfinals of match play at the Western Amateur, and he was the stroke-play runner-up and reached the round of 16 at the North & South Amateur.

This fall, Steelman played in two of Tech’s four tournaments, finishing fifth at the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate and 21^st at the Maui Jim Intercollegiate, and finished the fall season ranked No. 24 nationally in the Golfweek/Sagarin Index.

Steelman won the medalist trophy last August at the Western Amateur in Glen View, Ill.

The following 16 players have accepted invitations to the practice session (with college affiliation):

• Evan Beck, 32, of Virginia Beach, Va. (Wake Forest, class of 2013)
• Michael Brennan, 20, of Leesburg, Va. (Wake Forest, junior)
• David Ford, 20, of Peachtree Corners, Ga. (North Carolina, sophomore)
• Nicholas Gabrelcik, 20, of Trinity, Fla. (North Florida, junior)
• Stewart Hagestad, 31, of Newport Beach, Calif. (Southern Cal, class of 2013)
• Derek Hitchner, 23, of Minneapolis, Minn. (Pepperdine, graduate student)
• Palmer Jackson, 21, of Murrysville, Pa. (Notre Dame, senior)
• Benjamin James, 17, of Milford, Conn. (Virginia, freshman)
• Bryce Lewis, 22, of Hendersonville, Tenn. (Tennessee, junior)
• Dylan Menante, 21, of Carlsbad, Calif. (North Carolina, senior)
• Maxwell Moldovan, 20, of Uniontown, Ohio (Ohio State, junior)
• Gordon Sargent, 19, of Birmingham, Ala. (Vanderbilt, sophomore)
• Cole Sherwood, 20, of Austin, Texas (Vanderbilt, senior)
• Ross Steelman, 21, of Atlanta, Ga. (Georgia Tech, senior)
• Caleb Surratt, 18, of Indian Trail, N.C. (Tennessee, freshman)
• Michael Thorbjornsen, 21, of Wellesley, Mass. (Stanford, junior)

Hagestad, a two-time USGA champion (2016 and 2021 U.S. Mid-Amateur), is the only player with previous Walker Cup experience (2017, 2019, 2021) to be invited…