Photos by USGA/Jeff Haynes
South Carolina resident Todd White may want to play more in Northern California.
White won his second USGA title in the region in late August, defeating Jody Fanagan, 4 and 3, in the 18-hole final of the U.S. Senior Amateur at Martis Camp in the Lake Tahoe area. In 2015, White, 55, won the inaugural U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship at The Olympic Club playing with partner Nathan Smith.
The No.1 seed, White became the ninth stroke-play medalist to win the championship and the first since Northern Californian Jeff Wilson achieved the feat five years ago at Eugene (Ore.) Country Club. Fanagan, meanwhile, came up one match short in his bid to be the first international winner of the Senior Amateur, the lone USGA event without a foreign-born champion.
“At this point in time … words fail me,” said White, the 2023 South Carolina Amateur champion. “I sit here and I look at all the hard work that's gone into it over the course of my life, and it's just incredible validation of that work.”
While he won’t be around NorCal much, we’ll get to see him again in 2025. Among the perks for his victory was an exemption into that year’s U.S. Amateur at The Olympic Club.