News Release
For Immediate Release: June 22, 2001
Seven of the 10 members of the United States team for the Walker
Cup Match, including four-time selection John Harris of Minneapolis, Minn.,
1999 team member Bryce Molder of Conway, Ark., and 2000 U.S. Amateur champion
Jeff Quinney of Eugene, Ore., have been named by the United States Golf Association.
The 2001 Walker Cup Match will be played at Ocean Forest Golf Club in Sea
Island, Ga., from August 11-12, against a 10-member team representing Great
Britain and Ireland.
The remainder of the 10-man U.S. squad will be selected in July. The Walker Cup Match consists of 16 singles and eight foursomes (alternate shot) matches. The Great Britain and Ireland amateur team won the last match in 1999 by a score of 15-9.
Harris, 48, holds a 6-0 singles record as a member of the 1993, 1995 and 1997 U.S. squads. Molder and Quinney, each 22, were collegiate All-Americans who played for the victorious U.S. World Amateur team last summer.
They will be joined by 2000 U.S. Amateur runner-up James Driscoll, 23, of Brookline, Mass., two-time selection David Eger, 49, of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., 1999 U.S. Mid-Amateur champion Danny Green, 44, of Jackson, Tenn., and 2000 U.S. Amateur Public Links champion D.J. Trahan, 20, of Inman, S.C.
Harris, who will celebrate his 49th birthday Wednesday (June 13), won the 1993 U.S. Amateur. He owns a combined 10-1 mark in Walker Cup play, including the victory-clinching match in both 1993 and 1997. He is a 10-time Minnesota State Player of the Year.
One of college golf's most decorated players, Molder broke the NCAA career scoring mark of Tiger Woods with a 70.67 average in four years at Georgia Tech. He was a quarterfinalist at the 1998 and 2000 U.S. Amateurs and was the medalist at the 2000 World Amateur Team Championship.
Quinney, who won the U.S. Amateur in 39 holes, is a three-time All-American and All-Pac 10 selection at Arizona State. He won the 2001 Las Vegas Intercollegiate and the 2000 Pacific Northwest Amateur and Oregon Amateur.
Driscoll captured national attention with his first-round 68 at the 2001 Masters. The runner-up at the 1995 U.S. Junior Amateur, he was also a quarterfinalist at the 1999 U.S. Amateur. A graduate of the University of Virginia, he won the 1999 North and South Amateur and was the runner-up at the 1999 NCAA East Regional.
Eger, who is making his third appearance in the Walker Cup, has a 3-3 overall mark for 1989 and 1991. Near the top of all amateur rankings in 2000, he won the 1988 U.S. Mid-Amateur championship and was a semifinalist at the 1990 and 2000 U.S. Amateurs. He was a member of the victorious U.S. team at World Amateur Team Championship.
Green, who advanced to the third round in the 2000 U.S. Mid-Amateur, won four amateur tournaments in 2000. A self-taught player, he was the runner-up at the 1989 U.S. Amateur and participated in the 1990 and 2000 Masters.
Trahan, who earned All-American honors in 2001 as a sophomore at Clemson, followed his U.S. Amateur Public Links title with a win at the 2001 Jones Cup Invitational. The 2000 Carolinas Player of the Year, he was also the Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Year. As a 15-year-old, he reached the final eight at the 1996 U.S. Junior Amateur.