Cameron Kuchar is part of an international field at the historic Western Amateur Championship this week at Skokie Country Club in Illinois.
Kuchar, a rising senior at Jupiter High School and son of PGA Tour veteran Matt Kuchar, will join more than 150 golfers vying for one of the top prizes in amateur golf from July 29-Aug. 2.
The first round of stroke play is scheduled for Tuesday, July 29. The field will cut to low 44 and ties after Wednesday’s second round. Golfers will then play 36 holes on Thursday to try to make the match play cut.
Round of 16 and quarterfinal match play will be held on Friday. Semifinal and championship match play rounds are scheduled for Saturday.
The Western Amateur, first hosted in 1899, holds the distinction of the third-oldest amateur golf event in the world. Past winners include Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Ben Crenshaw and Curtis Strange.
This year’s field features competition from more than 18 countries as well as Kuchar, Boca Raton’s Frankie Harris, Jupiter’s Jonathan Bale representing Palm Beach County.
Kuchar most recently played in the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship — the United States Golf Association’s national championship for boys junior golf — last week at Trinity Forest and Brook Hollow Golf Club in Dallas.
He made the match play cut and lost in the Round of 64 to California’s Kailer Stone.
Eric J. Wallace is deputy sports editor for The Palm Beach Post. He can be reached at [email protected].
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