Nick Dunlap turns professional, four days after missing out on $1.5 million payday due to amateur status
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America’s newest golf sensation Nick Dunlap announced he is turning professional Thursday, just four days after missing out on a $1.5 million payday due to his amateur status.
America’s newest golf sensation Nick Dunlap announced he is turning professional Thursday, just four days after missing out on a $1.5 million payday due to his amateur status. The University of Alabama sophomore announced his intention to accept PGA Tour membership at a press conference staged on campus, having become the first amateur to win on the tour in over three decades with triumph at The American Express on Sunday. Victory in La Quinta, California, made the 20-year-old the youngest amateur to win a tour event since 1910 and granted him the chance to take automatic membership through the end of the 2026 season – an “unbelievable” opportunity the former US Amateur champion could not pass up. “It was the easiest, hardest decision that I’ve ever had to make,” Dunlap said Thursday. “I was very fortunate that everyone had the same opinion about it, and my teammates were awesome and very supportive. It goes back to the family that Alabama has; they were very supportive and wanted me to chase my dreams.” Dunlap is set to make his professional debut at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on February 1, having withdrawn from this week’s Farmers Insurance Open to return home following his remarkable victory.
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