Cole Hammer (born August 28, 1999) is an American

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College career

Hammer competed for the

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and was

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champion in 2021.

Amateur career

Hammer has competed in three U.S. Opens and two Walker Cups. In 2018, he won the

U.S. Amateur Four-Ball The U.S. Amateur Four-Ball is an amateur golf tournament conducted by the United States Golf Association (USGA). It was first played in 2015 and replaced the U.S. Amateur Public Links, an individual tournament that was played from 1922 to 2014. Th ...

, partnering with Garrett Barber. Additionally, in 2019 he won the Mark H. McCormack Medal as the best amateur golfer in the world. In 2022, Hammer ended his college and amateur career as part of the winning team at the 2022 NCAA Division I Championship.

Professional career

Hammer turned professional in June 2022 after the NCAA Championship and made his professional debut at the Wichita Open on the

Korn Ferry Tour The Korn Ferry Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either not yet reached the PGA Tour, or who have done so but then failed to win enough FedEx Cup points to stay at that level. ...

. He has status on the tour for the remainder of 2022.

Amateur wins

*2018

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*2019 Southern Highlands Collegiate, Lamkin Grips SD Classic, NCAA Austin Regional *2020 South Beach International Amateur *2021 Big 12 Men's Championship Source:

Results in major championships

''Results not in chronological order in 2020.'' CUT = missed the halfway cut
NT = No tournament due to

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U.S. national team appearances

Amateur *

Junior Presidents Cup The Junior Presidents Cup is a junior team golf competition between the United States and an International team representing the rest of the world excluding Europe. It is based around the Presidents Cup and is run by the PGA Tour and American Juni ...

: 2017 (winners) *

Eisenhower Trophy The Eisenhower Trophy (World Men's Amateur Team Championships) is the biennial World Amateur Team Championship for men organized by the International Golf Federation. Since the tournament was first played in 1958 Eisenhower Trophy, 1958, it is nam ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

Arnold Palmer Cup The Arnold Palmer Cup is an annual team golf competition for college/university golfers. It is named for Arnold Palmer. From 2018 it has been contested between a United States team and an International team representing the rest of the world. The ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Walker Cup The Walker Cup is a golf trophy contested in odd-numbered years by leading male amateur golfers in two teams: United States, and Great Britain and Ireland featuring players from the United Kingdom and Ireland. The official name is the Walker Cup ...

(winners),

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

(winners) Source:

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hammer, Cole American male golfers Texas Longhorns men's golfers Golfers from Houston 1999 births Living people 21st-century American sportsmen