10 American and British amateur champions, they thrived and five future stars
The 2025 British Amateur Championship Championship was held last week at Royal St. George in Sandwich, England.
The game was played under the clear blue sky and the burning sun.
Linksland is fast and real.
The U.S. side ended up beating Irish Gavin Tinan in an exciting 36-hole final.
To succeed in the championship, not only great skills are required, but also endurance is required – the winner plays two rounds of practice, two practice qualifiers and five rounds before the finale.
But to what extent are the two greatest champions good guides for future career success in amateur games?
Let’s take a look at the 10 winners of the amateur champions in the United States and Britain.
Then, we picked five players from this year’s British amateur courts and they might do that in the future.
10 stars
1. Tiger Woods
The Great Tiger Woods once won American amateurs. He didn’t win twice. The tiger won three times. continuous.
His success was achieved in 1994, 1995 and 1996 at TPC Sawgrass, Newport CC and Pumpkin Ridge.
Less than a year after the final game, he won his first major title – the Masters in 1997 – and eventually won 15 games.
2. Jack Nicklaus
If Tiger Woods is not Jack Nicklaus’s sure goat. He won American amateurs in 1959 and 1961, before winning 18 major titles as a professional.
3. Phil Mickelson
How many majors would Phil Mickelson win if Tiger Woods didn’t play golf? ! It’s pure guesswork, but worth considering – Mickelson’s reputation is obviously strong, but it will be better, but for the great woods, it will be better. Mickelson won American amateurs in 1990.
4. Bryson Danborg
The 2015 American Amateur Champion supports his quality by winning the U.S. Open in 2020 and 2024.
5. Matt Fitzpatrick
The British also competed in the US Amateur/US Open. In his case, previous success was in 2013, the latter nine years later. Guess what it is? It’s in the same course – Country Club in Brooklyn.
6. Nick Dunlap
He was the winner of the 2023 American Amateurs and then won the 2024 American Express on the PGA Tour while still an amateur. Five months later, he won again on the PGA Tour after becoming a professional player. The beginning of a career.
7. Viktor Hovland
The Norwegian landed in the US amateur in 2018 and has been a star of his career. In 2023, he not only won the FedEx Cup at PGA Tour, but also starred in Europe at the Ryder Cup.
8. JoseMaria Olazabal
Let’s turn our attention to British amateurs. The Spaniard won the game in 1984 at Formby, beating Colin Montgomerie in the final. A year of Spanish golf – Severiano Ballesteros won the Open the same year.
Olazabal won the Masters twice and is a European Ryder Cup hero.
9. Sergio Garcia
In 1998, there was more Spanish joy by the sea. Garcia won at Muirfield, but he would never fully complete the amateur/open doubles – losing to Padraig Harrington at the 2007 Open. He did win a green jacket and was a Spanish Ryder Cup star.
10. MatteoManassero
When he won British amateurs in 2009, the Italian was only 16 years old, and within a few weeks he played the first and second rounds of Opens with Tom Watson, who tried to lift the fuchsia jug to his 60th birthday. Manassero won the BMW PGA Championship and returned from a career recession.
Who can start with the 2025 class?
1. EthanFang
Sounds like a Bond villain, like a PGA Tour star. The Americans made a sensation on the sandwich all week, lowering the ball, shaping iron from fairways and rough conditions, showing short-lived game skills, and heling puttts at various distances.
2. Gavin Tiernan
Less-known a week ago, the Rolls County golfer was excellent, showing off the pedigree of premium links. He spent a year at American college, and his family and friends said his game changes were profound.
3. KrisKim
The 17-year-old Briton is eager to reach heights, but his management team is preaching patience. Last year, he made a layoff on the PGA Tour, and his mother (and coach) is a Korean LPGA performer who already has a wealth of sponsors. He is a great T-shirt for Green, he is doing short competitions and is the first scholar at Wentworth Elite.
4. Connor Graham
The young Scotsman is a bit popular, but he has led the British amateur stroke competition section for the past two years and was defeated by Fang this year.
5. Richard Teder
The 20-year-old Estonian looks a bit like the cross between Harry Potter and Scooby Doo’s fluffy man. His match was excellent and was one of six Estonian young men who learned the game by taking the ferry to Helsinki to play in an indoor school in the dark winter of the Baltic Sea. He may not be great, but if the DP World Tour was allowed, it would be the completion of a longer journey than most people would have to take.
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