He is keeping it rolling this summer with a great victory in a 156-player field over the weekend.
On Saturday he won the 118th Southern Amateur at Idle Hour Country Club in Lexington, Ky., with a 6-under 64 to close the tournament and finish at 18-under 262 (66-69-63-64). He is the first amateur golfer from China to win the Southern Amateur Champion and just the fourth international player to be on the George W. Adair trophy.
The field average score in the final round was 68.89, with 13 eagles and 214 birdies posted as 33 players broke par. He is ranked fourth in the Golfweek/AmateurGolf.com World Rankings, won the 2022 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship and set records in his second college event, the 2024 Amer Ari Invitational.
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Wenyi Ding ??? has won the 118th Southern Amateur Championship by three shots after rounds of 66-69-63-64 (-18)??
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ABOUT THE SOUTHERN AMATEUR
The Championship was first played in 1902 at Nashville Golf & Country Club in Nashville, TN. A.F. Schwartz of New Orleans, LA defeated Percy Whitling 4 and 2 to win the inaugural event. The Championship was not played in 1918 due to World War I and 1942-1945 due to World War II. The format was changed from match play to stroke play in 1964. Robert T. (Bobby) Jones, Jr., won the Southern Amateur Champion in 1917, 1920, and 1922.
FRESHMAN WENYI DING FRESHMAN YEAR TAP-IN
Sun Devil freshman Wenyi Ding — who earned both Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and Player of the Year — earned first-team PING All-America honors as announced by the GCAA. Ding and Auburn’s Jackson Koivun were the only freshman on the 11-man team, and he is just the fifth Sun Devil to earn first-team All-America in the past 17 seasons. He joins Preston Summerhays (2023), Chun An Yu (2019), Jon Rahm (2016 and 2015) and Max Rotluff (2015). He is the first Sun Devil freshman to earn first-team honors since Alejandro Canizares in 2003. He was the first Sun Devil to win both Pac-12 Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year and finished the year ranked third by Scoreboard/Clippd with a 69.56 stroke average. He notched six top-10 and four top-five finishes in eight tournaments, including a ridiculous victory at the Amer Ari Invitational in just his second…
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