Pinehurst Resort is about to host two extra notable championships this month.
Simply 9 days after Bryson DeChambeau captured the 124th U.S. Open for his second main title, Pinehurst’s Nos. 2 and eight programs will host the 124th North and South Beginner. The championship options stroke-play qualifying on Tuesday and Wednesday earlier than the Spherical of 32 begins on Thursday. The semifinals and remaining are scheduled for Saturday. There may also be a ladies’s championship occurring concurrently on the identical pair of programs.
Pinehurst No. 2 will host one stroke-play spherical for the women and men earlier than internet hosting all the match-play competitors.
Kansas graduate Gunnar Broin, who tied for seventieth on the U.S. Open, headlines the sphere for the Elite Beginner Collection occasion. Vanderbilt’s Jackson Van Paris, a Pinehurst resident, may also compete, as will Florida’s Ian Gilligan, North Carolina grad Peter Fountain, Arizona’s Tiger Christensen, Florida State’s Grey Albright, Virginia’s Josh Duangmanee, South Carolina’s Nathan Franks, Illinois’ Ryan Voois, Wake Forest’s Scotty Kennon, standout incoming freshmen Nicholas Gross (Alabama) and Ethan Paschal (North Carolina), and one of many nation’s prime juniors, Luke Colton. Valparaiso’s Anthony Delisanti, who topped Virginia’s Bryan Lee in a two-hole playoff to win the Northeast Beginner final weekend, can also be within the subject. Notable ladies’s rivals embrace Wake Forest’s Macy Pate, Tennessee’s Bailey Davis, Texas’ Bo Park and Arkansas’ Reagan Zibilski.
Latest winners of the North and South embrace Nick Dunlap (2023), Luke Clanton (2022), Louis Dobbelaar (2021) and Ty Strafaci (2020).
The Elite Beginner Collection contains the Sunnehanna Beginner (received by), Northeast Beginner (received by Delisanti), North and South Beginner, Trans-Miss Beginner (July 9-12), Southern Beginner (July 17-20), Pacific Coast Beginner (July 23-26) and Western Beginner (July 29-Aug. 3). The highest 5 finishers within the Elite Beginner Collection obtain some mixture of exemptions into PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour occasions, U.S. Open remaining qualifying and the U.S. Beginner.
There’s additionally an Elite Beginner Collection for girls: Sea Island Girls’s Beginner (received by Clemson’s Annabelle Pancake), Southwestern Girls’s Beginner (received by Stanford incoming freshman Leigh Chien), North and South Girls’s Beginner, Girls’s Western Beginner (July 16-20) and Girls Nationwide Beginner (July 23-25).
