Coastal Carolina student qualifies for U.S. Amateur Championship

CONWAY - A student in Coastal Carolina University’s PGA Golf Management Program recently qualified for the U.S. Amateur championship and will compete with 312 players in the national tournament in late August.

According to a news release from the university, Steve Delmar, a junior from Gaithersburg, Maryland, missed qualifying last year by a single stroke and finished six strokes shy of the qualifying number in
2007.

The tournament is played the week of Aug. 24 to 30 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla.

To qualify, 21-year-old Delmar fired a 5-under par 139 through 36 holes at Hayfields Country Club in Hunt Valley, Md.

He finished second in a field of 78 to capture one of three berths, the release said.

Delmar is currently an intern at Columbia Country Club in Maryland. Delmar won the Washington Golf Association’s Dewey Ricketts Memorial in 2006 and was a runner-up in the Maryland Amateur last summer.

He is in his third year of the University’s PGA Golf Management Program, a four-and-one-half year program for aspiring PGA professionals, the release said.