2024 US Amateur Golf Championship: Format, top players, schedule and more explored

The 2024 US Amateur tees off on Monday, August 12. It will be played at the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Minnesota, along with co-host Chaska Town Course. The field, which consists of 312 amateur golfers, will play the 36 holes of stroke play in the first round, following which the top 64 continue on to match play on Wednesday.

In 2023, eventual PGA Tour player Nick Dunlap topped Neal Shipley by a score of 4 and 3 at Cherry Hills Country Club in Colorado. In doing so, Dunlap joined Tiger Woods as the only other player to win a US Junior Amateur and Amateur. Here's what you need to know about the event.

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All about the 2024 US Amateur Championship

Field details for the US Amateur

The US Amateur will have one of the biggest fields in golf, exceeding 300 players. Among those players are golf wunderkind Miles Russell, Jaden Soong, and Sohan Patel. Soong at 14 is the youngest player in the field.

Luke Clanton is in the field at the US Amateur (Imagn)

19 of the top 20 ranked amateurs will be in the field:

• No. 1 – Gordon Sargent
• No. 2 – Jackson Koivun
• No. 3 – Luke Clanton
• No. 4 – Wenyi Ding
• No. 5 – Ben James
• No. 6 – Preston Summerhays
• No. 7 – Jackson Van Paris
• No. 8 – David Ford
• No. 9 – Ian Gilligan
• No. 10 – Jose Luis Ballester Barrio
• No. 11 – Brendan Valdes
• No. 12 – Calum Scott
• No. 13 – Christiaan Maas
• No. 14 – Omar Morales
• No. 15 – Stewart Hagestad
• No. 17 – Jackson Buchanan
• No. 18 – Tommy Morrison
• No. 19 – Andrew Goodman
• No. 20 – Bastien Amat

Clanton is fresh off a top-five finish at the Wyndham Championship on Sunday, August 11.

Course details

The tournament will be played at two venues: Hazeltine National Golf Club and Chaska Town Course. Hazeltine is a par 72 course and features 7,599 total yards. Here's how it breaks down:

• Hole 1: 439 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 2: 427 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 3: 633 yards (Par 5)
• Hole 4: 207 yards (Par 3)
• Hole 5: 445 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 6: 406 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 7: 568 yards (Par 5)
• Hole 8: 173 yards (Par 3)
• Hole 9: 432 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 10: 450 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 11: 606 yards (Par 5)
• Hole 12: 518 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 13: 245 yards (Par 3)
• Hole 14: 352 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 15: 642 yards (Par 5)
• Hole 16: 400 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 17: 184 yards (Par 3)
• Hole 18: 472 yards (Par 4)

Chaska Town sets up like this, with a par 70 course totaling 6,804 yards:

• Hole 1: 415 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 2: 451 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 3: 287 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 4: 144 yards (Par 3)
• Hole 5: 351 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 6: 185 yards (Par 3)
• Hole 7: 521 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 8: 403 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 9: 561 yards (Par 5)
• Hole 10: 413 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 11: 450 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 12: 190 yards (Par 3)
• Hole 13: 381 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 14: 217 yards (Par 3)
• Hole 15: 491 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 16: 317 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 17: 480 yards (Par 4)
• Hole 18: 547 yards (Par 5)

Tournament schedule

Here's how the US Amateur Golf Championship will play out, starting on Monday:

• Monday, August 12: First round, stroke play
• Tuesday, August 13: Second round, stroke play
• Wednesday, August 14: Round of 64, match play
• Thursday, August 15: Rounds of 32 and 16, match play
• Friday, August 16: Quarterfinal round, match play
• Saturday, August 17: Semifinal round, match play
• Sunday, August 18: 36-hole championship final, match play

Television coverage of the US Amateur will be on Peacock and the Golf Channel.