Nick Dunlap Earns Spot in 2023 U.S. Amateur Championship Match

CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, Colo. – Alabama men’s golfer Nick Dunlap captured a 3&2 victory over Florida’s Parker Bell in Saturday’s semifinals to reach the championship match of the 2023 United States Amateur. In doing so, Dunlap joins former greats Michael Thomson (2007 runner-up) and Jerry Pate (1974 champion) as the only Crimson Tide golfers to reach the final match of the annual event.

Dunlap will take on Ohio State’s Neal Shipley in the 36-hole championship match, which tees off at 9 a.m. CT (8 a.m. MT) Sunday morning. Live television coverage of the championship matchup will air Sunday from 2-3 p.m. CT on the Golf Channel and 3-5 p.m. CT on NBC.

CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH-BOUND!

Nick Dunlap defeats Parker Bell 3&2 to advance to the 2023 #USAmateur championship match which takes place Sunday!#RollTide | #WhereLegendsAreMade pic.twitter.com/BbrgH2pTJB

— Alabama Men’s Golf (@AlabamaMGolf) August 19, 2023

Nick Dunlap, U.S. Amateur Finalist

• After the duo went stroke-for-stroke through the first four holes, Parker Bell grabbed a 1up lead on No. 5 and held that until Nick Dunlap grabbed the lead for good by capturing back-to-back holes on Nos. 8 and 9
• After finishing 41^st in stroke play (72-70/142), Nick Dunlap’s match play wins include: World No.1-ranked Gordon Sargent (2&1) in the round of 64, Connor Jones (4&2) in the round of 32, Bowen Mauss (5&4) in the round of 16, Jackson Koivun (19 holes) in the quarterfinals and Bell in the semis
• Other Alabama golfers who have reached the semifinals include Justin Thomas (2012), Michael Thompson (2007), Dicky Pride (1991), Cecil Ingram (1980) and Jerry Pate (1974)
• Only Thompson and Pate reached the finals of the event with Pate coming away as the program’s only U.S. Amateur champion, lifting the in 1974
• Currently ranked No. 9 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings
• Has had a strong summer on the amateur circuit winning consecutive major championships in the 61^st Northeast Amateur and the 123^rd North & South Amateur
• Second Team PING All-American and All-Region First Team
• Named a First Team All-SEC performer as we as an all-freshman team honoree
• Led Alabama in average strokes per round at 70.35, which ranks as the second lowest per-round single-season average in program history
• Additionally, his -0.95 average vs. par set a program record while his led UA with 17 rounds in the 60s (17)
• 2021 U.S. Junior Amateur Champion

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