USGA event set to tee off in Tequesta

Jupiter Hills Club will host U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship.

TEQUESTA — A team from Palm Beach Gardens — Justin Goodhue and Jesse Daley — will be first of the tee Saturday in the fourth annual U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship, which will be played at the Jupiter Hills Club. They will start at 7 a.m. on the Hills course, one of two being used the first two days in qualifying for match play.

They also are scheduled to start at 10:24 a.m. Sunday on the adjacent Village course.

After 36 holes of qualifying, the 128-team field will be cut to 32 twosomes for match play on the Hills, traditionally ranked among the nation’s best. First-round matches will be played Monday, the second and third rounds Tuesday, the semifinals and finals Wednesday. The championship match is scheduled for 1 p.m.

Other local players competing are James Smith, Juno Beach, with Jamie Miller, Orchard Park, N.Y.; Chris Durocher, Palm Beach Gardens, with D.J. Lantz, Phoenix, Ariz.; and Chandler Morris, Hobe Sound, with Drake Hull, Rutland, Vt.

A pair of 17-year-olds, Frankie Capan of North Oaks, Minn., and Shuai Ming Wong of The Woodlands, Texas, won last year on the No. 2 course at the Pinehurst, N.C., Country Club. They return to defend.

This is the sixth USGA championship to be played in Palm Beach County since 1963, including the 1987 U.S. Amateur at Jupiter Hills, won by Billy Mayfair. The 2021 Walker Cup is scheduled at Seminole Golf Club in Juno Beach.

In four-ball, matches are played in pairs, with each golfer playing his or her ball on each hole. At the end of each hole, the player with the lowest score wins that hole for the side.

Admission is free. Tickets are not required.