England Golf Men’s Squad star Jack Whaley has become just the third Englishman to win the US Amateur Championship after beating American Jay Leng 4&3 in the final at Merion Golf Club in Pennsylvania.
The 22-year-old from Rotherham, who attends Florida State University, battled through two rounds of stroke play, including a play-off, before winning six match-play contests to claim one of amateur golf’s most prestigious titles.
Whaley follows Harold Hilton, who won in 1911, and Matt Fitzpatrick, who triumphed in 2013, as England’s only other US Amateur champions in its 125-year history.
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