USA sets the pace at World Amateur
BY Anthony Powter | Amateur Golf Tour | 2008 World Amateur Team Championships | Round One | 16 Oct 2008
The USA has opened the World Amateur Championship in style with a team total of 8-under-par through fifteen holes during this morning’s first round in Adelaide.
Rickie Fowler, Billy Horschel and Jamie Lovemark have combined well to open a comfortable margin over the rest of the field at Royal Adelaide Golf Club, which is considered by many competitors the harder of the two venues.
Fowler, the world’s number two ranked amateur, is at 5-under-par after thirteen holes to currently share the lead with Scotland’s Callum Macaulay.
At The Grange Golf Club, Scotland has opened its campaign well and is at 9-under-par through seventeen holes.
The Welsh team is in third place at 4-under-par through fifteen holes around The Grange layout.
Australia is due to tee off at 12.51 at Royal Adelaide.
The USA has prevailed in 13 of the 24 World Amateur Team Championships to have the highest winning margin of the 68 teams competing this week.
