Master of the Amateurs gets amateur golf underway in 2023
Harrison Crowe – defending champion, Asia Pacific Amateur Champion and 2023 Masters invitee – photo AAC
The Master of the Amateurs gets amateur golf underway for 2023 when the highly regarded title goes up for grabs at the Southern Golf Club in Melbourne’s Sandbelt, where the event is to be staged for the next three years.
From its inception in 1997 until now, the event has regularly seen players destined to be amongst the game’s best either win or compete with distinction on some of Australia’s finest layouts.
Names such as Brendan Jones, Jason Day, Aaron Wise and Sahith Theegala stand out amongst the winners, but others such as Cameron Smith, Rickie Fowler, Will Zalatoris, Russel Henley, Marc Leishman, Morgan Hoffman, Tommy Fleetwood and Bryson De Chambeau, to name but a few, have graced the fairways of high quality layouts en-route to a successful professional career.
The defending champion is New South Welshman, Harrison Crowe, who gets a chance to hone is game ahead of teeing it up at the Masters in April, a right he earned courtesy of his fine win at the Asia Pacific Amateur Championship.
Crowe may well have been a professional by now, but by winning the Asia Pacific title and gaining a start at August National, provided he remains amateur, then he gets a chance to defend the title he won by a narrow one shot at the Victoria Golf Club twelve months ago.
A women’s division was introduced in 2018 and players such as Japan’s Yuka Yasuda and Sydney’s Stephanie Kyriacou are prominent on an honours board, still very young in the making but one sure to produce world class players in the future.
108 male golfers and 48 females will compete in their respective events over 72 holes.
