LAST TWO AMERICANS BEATEN IN SEMI-FINALS

CANADIAN v S KOREAN IN FINAL OF 

UNITED STATES AMATEUR CH/SHIP


The final of the United States Amateur championship will not have an American player in it!
This morning's (local time) semi-finals at the Atlanta Athletic Club, Georgia were won by South Korean Gunn Yang (20), ranked No 776 in the world, and 22-year-old Canadian Corey Conners, No 619 in the WAGR.
Yang is the lowest/highest-ranked player ever to reach the U.S. Amateur final.In 2011, the USGA tweaked its qualification process to grant the top 50 players in the World Amateur Ranking an automatic exemption into the U.S. Amateur. It was trumpeted as a move that would improve the quality of the field, and indeed it has – since 2011, four of the six finalists have been ranked inside the top 50 worldwide. Last year was a battle between No. 2 Matt Fitzpatrick and No. 13 Oliver Goss.
That’s not the case this year.
Yang beat Pepperdine University junior Frederick Wedel from Texas at the 19th.
Wedel had beaten four-time USGA champion Nathan Smith from Pittsburgh 4 and 3 in Friday's quarter-finals over the 7,360yd, par-71 Highlands Course.
Yang beat high school senior Cameron Young, of Scarborough, New York by two holes in the quarter-finals.
Corey Conners from Listowel, Ontario, Canada, a recent graduate of Kent State University, had advanced to the semi-finals for the second consecutive year with a 2 and 1 win over Oklahoma State sophomore Zachary Olsen .
In the round of the last four, Conners beat  University of Virginia All-American Denny McCarthy, 21, of Rockville, Maryland by 3 and 2.

+It's  the second weekend in a row that  a Canadian is in the final at a U.S. amateur golf championship.
One week ago Brooke Mackenzie Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ontario, lost in the US women's amateur championship final at Glen Cove, New York.