The United States Golf Association has taken a cut from the PGA Tour in forming a feature group for the 36 holes of stroke play Aug. 10-11 in the U.S. Amateur, at the Merion Golf Club and Philadelphia Country Club.
Young star Miles Russell is part of the mix.
The USGA has grouped Russell, Preston Stout of Dallas and Tyler Watts of Huntsville, Ala., putting together three of the top four players on the World Amateur Golf Rankings. Stout is first, Watts third and Russell fourth. No. 2 Tyler Weaver of England is not in the field.
Russell, Stout and Watts will tee off at 1:03 p.m. on Aug. 10 from the first tee at Merion, and at 7:33 a.m. from the 10th tee at the Philadelphia Country Club. The top 64 players in stroke play will qualify for match play,
beginning on Aug. 12.
Stout is a senior at Oklahoma State and Watts is entering Tennessee this fall. Russell has verbally committed to Florida State for the fall of 2027.
The other First Coast player in the field is Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island, who is playing with future Vanderbilt teammate Michael Riebe and high school student Anson Munzlinger of Columbia, Mo. Mawhinney enters Vanderbilt later this month and Riebe is a sophomore.
Russell has reached the finals of the U.S. Junior Amateur and the semifinals of the Western Amateur this summer. Mawhinney lost to Russell in the U.S. Junior semifinals.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Miles Russell will play in a power-packed group at U.S. Amateur
