Crimson Tide Has Two U.S. Amateur Connections
8/13/2004 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
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TUSCALOOSA – Two men with University of Alabama connections will play in the upcoming U.S. Amateur. The 2004 U.S. Amateur Championship will be held August 16-22, 2004 at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y.
Among those competing for the championship is Max Alverio who will be a sophomore on the Crimson Tide golf team this upcoming season. Alverio is a native of Humacao, Puerto Rico and has an international golf background that includes having competed in the 2002 World Amateur Championship. He will again represent Puerto Rico in October at the 2004 World Championships which will be held in his home country. As a freshman at Alabama this past season, Alverio competed in nine tournaments and had a 76.67 stroke average. He is a member of the Puerto Rican national team.
The University of Alabama golfer won his spot by four shots in his U.S. Amateur qualifier in Dorado, Puerto Rico in July.
Alverio will tee off at 7:15 a.m. ET on Monday with University of North Carolina Greensboro golfer Nick Baker of Madison, N.C. and Mu Hu who is from the Peoples Republic of China but is currently living in Celebration, Fla. Mu Hu is only 14 years old and will be a high school sophomore this year.
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Sean Szerencsits will also compete. He was a member of Alabama’s 2002-03 team and is from Coplay, Penn. Szerencsits’ tee time in Monday’s opening round is at 7:43 a.m. ET. He’s paired with Billy Wingerd, the 2004 Maryland State Amateur champion and Towson University player who is from Baltimore, Md., and Tim Pemberton of Charlottesville, Va. Pemberton plays at the College of William and Mary.
The University of Alabama has produced 30 different U.S. Amateur participants since the Tide’s Jerry Pate, a PGA and now Champions Tour player, won the 1974 U.S. Amateur’s championship. Two Alabama golfers, Bubba Major and Sam Farlow, have competed in it three times. Seven Tide golfers were two-time participants including current PGA tour player Dicky Pride of Tuscaloosa who participated in 1990 and 1992; Patrick Vadden (1994 and 1997); Centerville’s Chip Deason (1993 and 1996); Florence’s Greg Letson (1992 and 1995); Jim Kilduff (1976 and 1979); Kevin Canada (1976 and 1987); Cecil Ingram (1979 and 1980). This is the fourth straight year the Crimson Tide has had at least one golfer qualify for the U.S. Amateur. One of those includes upcoming senior Clint Provost who qualified in 2002.
