Story by Creg Stephenson, courtesy of the Alabama Sports Writers Association Nick Dunlap became something of an overnight sensation in the golf world this past
Nick Dunlap became something of an overnight sensation in the golf world this past winter, but to anyone who follows the sport in the state of Alabama, he is anything but.
“If you grew up playing golf, you always wanted to be like Tiger or be like Phil,” Dunlap upon turning pro in January. “And to be compared to them is why I practice and work out and do everything I do is to be on that level and be that stage. But it was not long after that Dunlap began to focus primarily on golf. Born in Huntsville, he lived briefly in South Carolina before returning to Alabama prior to his sophomore year of high school and continuing to train with Brian Speakman at Greystone Golf and Country Club in Birmingham.
In 2018 at age 14, Dunlap won the Alabama Junior Amateur Championship by firing a final-round 66. In 2021 alone , he won the Dustin Johnson World Junior Championship, the American Junior Golf Association Polo Junior Golf Classic and the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, becoming the first Alabamian to win the latter tournament.
At the U.S. Amateur Championship in New Jersey in August, Dunlap was 5-over-par through seven holes during stroke play before rallying to make the cut. In the finals of match play, he beat Ohio State’s Neal Shipley, 4 and 3, to win the championship and earn a spot in the 2024 U.S. Open. Smith said Dunlap’s out-of-nowhere win — just the seventh ever by an amateur on the PGA Tour and only the third since 1957 — caused a sensation at Greystone.
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