South Korean (17) becomes youngest ever

United States amateur champion

South Korean-born Byeong Hun-an, only 17 years of age, has become the youngest ever winner of the United States men's amateur championship at Southern Hills, Tulsa in Oklahoma.
The student at a Bradenton, Florida golf academy beat Clemson University senior student Ben Martin 7 and 5 in a 36-hole final in which both men never touched the form that got them to the last day of the championship.
An was nine over par on the day, but that still put him well ahead of the struggling Martin.
An, the second consecutive champion born in South Korea, took a three-hole lunchtime lead by winning three of the last four holes in the morning round.
Martin bogeyed five of the first seven holes in the afternoon round to fall six down and there was no way back from that.
An, who turns 18 on Sept. 17, is about a month and a half younger than Danny Lee was when he broke Tiger Woods' record last year to become the U.S. Amateur's youngest champion. Lee was 18 years, 1 month old at the time of his victory, while Woods was seven months older than that when he won his first of three straight titles.
Other past champions include Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Phil Mickelson.