Riccardo Fantinelli and Julien Paltrinieri, all American amateurs

Two Italian players, Julien Paltrinieri and Riccardo Fantinelli, will compete in the US Amateur, a Major for amateurs that has been signed by many great champions over the years. The 124th edition will be held for the 37th time in Minnesota from August 12 to 18 and for the ninth time at the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, but on the first two days, when the 36-hole medal qualification will take place, the 312 participants will also alternate on the Chaska Town Course.

The top 64 will advance to the 18-hole match play, with the final played on 36. The winner and runner-up will advance to the 2025 US Open Championship.

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The two Italians entered the field through qualifying: Fantinelli won the race in Medford and Paltrinieri finished fourth in Rockford.

Only one Italian on the roll of honour, Edoardo Molinari, who defeated American Dillon Dougherty 4&3 in the 2005 final. The tournament was born in 1895, but the year before that there were two clubs, the Newport (RI) Golf Club and the St.

Andrew’s Golf Club of New York had organized invitational events to attract the best amateur players. Both clubs named their winners national champions, while Charles Blair Macdonald, a prominent player and golf course architect, was named to both.

During the competitions it was announced that an association would be formed in the following months and this was done. Representatives from the Newport Golf Club, the St. Andrew’s Golf Club, the Country Club of Brookline (Massachusetts), the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club of Southampton (NY) and the Chicago Golf Club founded the USGA on December 22, 1894 and the first US

The following year, the Amateur Championship took place, along with the US Open and the US Women’s Amateur. And it was Charles Blair Macdonald who opened the roll of honors. As mentioned, many champions have won the US Amateur, among whom we remember a few: Bobby Jones, who in 1930, by securing this title, completed the Grand Slam, and then Francis Ouimet, Gene Littler, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Mark O’Meara, Phil Mickelson, Justin Leonard, Bryson DeChambeau and Tiger Woods, the author of the only consecutive hat-trick (1994-1996).

Until last year, Woods was also the only person to win both the U.S. Amateur and U.S. Junior Amateur (three straight titles from 1991 to 1993, including this event), but in 2023 Nick Dunlap followed suit, winning in the junior category in 2021. Since turning pro this year, Dunlap has already enjoyed two PGA Tour successes.