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Men's Golf's Maas earns top-20 individual finish at World Amateur Team Championship
10.21.2023 | Men's Golf
Sophomore Christiaan Maas posts an 8-under-par 280 to tie for 17th place in the individual standings.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — University of Texas Men's Golf sophomore Christiaan Maas recorded a 72-hole total of 8-under-par 280 (70-70-71-69) to tie for 17th place in the individual standings at the 33rd World Amateur Team Championship on the National Course at Abu Dhabi Golf Club. Maas, competing for his home country of South Africa, helped his team to a seventh-place finish in the team standings, marking the first top-10 result for South Africa since 1982 at the prestigious event.
Maas was one of three individuals representing South Africa, as he was joined by Christo Lamprecht and Altin van der Merwe.
Team USA captured the team title with a four-day total of 36-under-par 540 (135-137-136-132). Norway (144-134-134-139) and Australia (137-137-139-138) tied for second at 25-under-par 551. South Africa recorded a 72-hole score of 22-under-par 554 (139-138-138-139).
Conducted by the International Golf Federation (IGF), the World Amateur Team Championships are a biennial international amateur golf competition. For the first time since the event's inception in 1958, the number of teams was limited to 36 for both the men's and women's competition to lessen the cost and complexity of hosting the event.
Each team has two or three players, who each play 18 holes of stroke play over four days. In each round, the total of the two lowest scores from each constitutes the team score for the round. The four-day (72-hole) total is the team's score for the championship. The winning team in the men's competition receives custody of the Eisenhower Trophy until the next World Amateur Team Championship is held.
Maas is No. 14 in the latest World Amateur Golf Rankings (Oct. 18). He has competed in each of UT's first four fall events and ranks second on the team in scoring average (70.63). Maas placed third at the OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational (Sept. 15-17) with a 7-under-par 133 (69-64), including a collegiate-best 18-hole score of 6-under 64 in the second round. One of 25 players named to the preseason watch list for the Fred Haskins Award, Maas earned runner-up honors at the 2023 Western Amateur Championship this summer. As a freshman in 2022, he claimed Division I PING second-team All-America honors and was named the Big 12 Conference Newcomer of the Year in addition to earning a spot on the 10-person All-Big 12 Team.
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