Fact Sheet

July 13-18
Jimmie Austin/OU Golf Club
Norman, Okla.

USGA MEDIA CONTACTS

David Normoyle and Dave Fanucchi will be the USGA media representatives on site. The media center phone number is 405-325-2153. Normoyle can be reached at (908) 432-3004 or by e-mail at dnormoyle@usga.org. Fanucchi can be reached at (908) 655-6271 or by e-mail at dfanucchi@usga.org.

PAR AND YARDAGE

The Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club will play at 7,289 yards and a par of 35-36—71.

ARCHITECT

Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club was designed by Perry Maxwell and opened in 1951. A course renovation by Bob Cupp was completed in 1996.

HOLE BY HOLE

Holes 1-9 will play at 3,582 yards and par 35

Holes 10-18 will play at 3,707 yards and par 36

COURSE SETUP

• The USGA Course Rating® for the APL Championship at Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club is 75.5 and the USGA Slope Rating® is 130.
• Tees, approaches and collars, height of grass – just below 0.5 inch
• Fairways, height of grass – 0.5 inch
• Putting greens, height of grass – 0.120 inch with a speed of 11 feet on USGA Stimpmeter
• Primary Rough – 2.5 inches
• Intermediate Rough – 1.5 inches (6-foot width)

USGA AND OKLAHOMA

The 2009 U.S. Amateur Public Links will be the 18th USGA championship conducted in the state of Oklahoma. The last USGA championship in the state was the 2008 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur at Tulsa Country Club. The Amateur Public Links is making its first appearance in the state of Oklahoma. It is the first USGA championship for Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club – making it the first University owned facility to ever host the APL.

Following the APL, the 2009 U.S. Amateur will be played at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, August 24-30.

Prior to this year, Oklahoma held two USGA championships in the same year on two occasions, in 1953 and 1960. In 1953, the USGA conducted the U.S. Junior Amateur at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa and the U.S. Amateur at Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club. In 1960, the USGA conducted the U.S. Girls’ Junior at The Oaks Country Club in Tulsa and the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Tulsa Country Club.

GROUPINGS AND STARTING TIMES

Groupings and starting times will be distributed the week prior to the championship. They will also be posted on the USGA Web site for the championship at www.usapl.org.

WWW.USGA.ORG

Log on to the USGA’s official Web site (www.usga.org) for the latest news and scores from the championship.

ADMISSION

Admission is free. Tickets are not needed for this USGA championship and spectators are encouraged to attend.

• Monday, July 13 — First round, stroke play (18 holes)
• Tuesday, July 14 — Second round, stroke play (18 holes)
• Wednesday, July 15 — First round, match play (18 holes)
• Thursday, July 16 — Second round, match play (18 holes), Third round, match play (18 holes)
• Friday, July 17 — Quarterfinals, match play (18 holes), Semifinals, match play (18 holes)
• Saturday, July 18 — Final, match play (36 holes)

WHO CAN PLAY

The U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship is open to any amateur golfer, who since Jan. 1, 2009, has been a bona fide public-course player and has not held privileges at any course that does not extend playing privileges to the general public, or privileges of any private club maintaining its own course, and has a USGA Handicap Index not exceeding 4.4. A bona fide public-course player may hold incidental privileges of a course not open to the public when such privileges are provided by (1) an educational institution at which he/she is a student, or (2) a federal armed service of which he/she is a member, or (3) an industry by which she is employed.

QUALIFYING

National qualifying was held at 74 sites from June 8-28.

ENTRIES

A total of 3,342 contestants entered the 2009 championship. The record of 6,300 was set in 1998.

EXEMPT PLAYERS

There are 16 players fully exempt from qualifying for the 2009 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship:

• Josh Brock, Wilmington, N.C. - qualified for the 2009 U.S. Open
• John Chin, Temecula, Calif. – 2008 APL runner-up
• Jeff Dennis, Jacksonville, Fla. – 2008 APL quarterfinalist
• Rickie Fowler, Murrieta, Calif. – returned scores for 72 holes at the 2008 U.S. Open; 2007 Walker Cup Match participant; member of the USA 2008 World Amateur Team Championship squad; finished among the top eight individual scorers at the 2008 World Amateur Team Championship
• Danny Green, Jackson, Tenn. – low-amateur at the 2008 U.S. Senior Open
• Cason Hammock, Columbus, Ga. – 2008 APL semifinalist
• David Johnson, Palm Bay, Fla. – 2008 APL semifinalist
• Kyle Leach, Louisville, Ky. – 2008 APL quarterfinalist
• Corey Nagy, Charlotte, N.C. – 2008 APL quarterfinalist, 2007 APL semifinalist
• Matt Nagy, Buena Vista, Ga. – qualified for the 2009 U.S. Open
• Jack Newman, Des Moines, Iowa – 2008 APL champion
• Cody Paladino, Kensington, Conn. – 2007 U.S. APL runner-up
• Cameron Peck, Olympia, Wash. – 2008 U.S. Junior Amateur champion
• Kyle Peterman, Springfield, Ill. - qualified for the 2009 U.S. Open
• Nick Taylor, Canada – low amateur at the 2009 U.S. Open; finished among the top eight individual scorers at the 2008 World Amateur Team Championship
• Steve Wilson, St. Martin, Miss. – 2008 U.S. Mid-Amateur champion

HISTORY

The U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship has been an unqualified success since its inception in 1922, giving exposure to many public-course players who otherwise might not have an opportunity to compete in a national championship. The inaugural event drew 140 entrants, with less than half wearing golf shoes. Today, the APL attracts as many as 6,000 entries. While a majority of the field is comprised of high school and college students, the event still attracts bus drivers, bartenders, firemen, waiters, riveters, engineers and college professors.

Professional major championship winners that have competed in the APL include former U.S. Open champions Ed Furgol, Tommy Bolt and Ken Venturi; British Open champion Tony Lema; PGA Champions Dave Marr and Bobby Nichols; and Masters winners Trevor Immelman and George Archer.

Billy Mayfair, two-time champion Ryan Moore and Colt Knost are the only players to have captured the U.S. Amateur and APL titles, the latter two doing it in the same year. In 1946, Smiley Quick was the APL champion and U.S. Amateur runner-up. Carl Kauffmann of Pittsburgh, Pa., is the only player to have won the APL three times, doing so in consecutive years from 1927-29. Seven others have won it twice.

California has produced the most APL champions with 22. Texas has seven and Florida, New York and Pennsylvania have each had five winners, followed by Hawaii and Washington with four apiece.

2008 CHAMPION

Jack Newman of Des Moines, Iowa, defeated John Chin of Temcula, Calif., 5 and 3, at Murphy Creek Golf Course in Aurora, Colo. Newman will defend his title this year.

PAST CHAMPIONS

Former APL winners who have gone on to professional careers include David Berganio Jr., Tim Clark, Trevor Immelman, Hunter Haas, Billy Mayfair, Ryan Moore, Jodie Mudd, Brandt Snedeker and D.J. Trahan. Immelman became the first U.S. Amateur Public Links champion to win a professional golf ‘major’ with his victory at The Masters in 2008.

FOR THE WINNER

The champion receives:

• A gold medal and custody of the James D. Standish Jr. Cup for the ensuing year
• An exemption from local qualifying at the next three U.S. Open Championships, if still an amateur
• An exemption from sectional qualifying at the next two U.S. Senior Open Championships, if otherwise eligible
• An exemption from sectional qualifying at the next 10 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championships, if otherwise eligible
• An exemption from sectional qualifying at the next U.S. Amateur Championship
• An exemption from sectional qualifying at the next U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship, if otherwise eligible
• A likely invitation to compete in the next Masters Tournament, if still an amateur

THE TROPHY

The Championship trophy was presented in 1922 by James D. Standish Jr., the central figure in organizing this championship. Standish served a 13-year term on the USGA Executive Committee, including two years as president (1950-51). As a player, he won the 1909 North and South Amateur and was twice the runner-up to Chick Evans at the Western Amateur (1914 and 1915).

2010 APL

In 2010, the championship will be played at Bryan Park Golf and Conference Center in Greensboro, N.C., from July 12-17.