Final 2 Members Of 2003 USA Walker Cup Match Team Named    

Far Hills, N.J. – Lee Williams, 21, of Alexander City, Ala., and George Zahringer, 50, of New York, N.Y., have been named as the final two members of the 10-man United States of America team for the Walker Cup Match that will be played at Ganton Golf Club in North Yorkshire, England, from Sept. 6-7, against a team representing Great Britain and Ireland .

The Walker Cup Match consists of 16 singles and eight foursomes (alternate shot) matches.  The Great Britain and Ireland amateur team has won the last two matches, in 1999 and 2001, by identical scores of 15-9.  The U.S. leads the series history, 31-6-1.

Eight team members were previously named in early August.  They were: Bill Haas of Greer , S.C. ; Matt Hendrix of Aiken , S.C. ; Trip Kuehne of Dallas, Texas; Brock Mackenzie of Yakima, Wash.; Ryan Moore of Puyallup , Wash. ; Chris Nallen of Hackettstown , N.J. ; Adam Rubinson of Ft. Worth , Texas ; and Casey Wittenberg of Memphis , Tenn.   Of the 10, only Kuehne has previous Walker Cup experience, having played on the 1995 USA team.  The alternates, in rank order, are Peter Tomasulo , 21, Long Beach , Calif. , and Brandt Snedeker , 22, o f Nashville , Tenn.

 The captain (coach) of the team is Bob Lewis , 59, of Pepper Pike , Ohio , a four-time Walker Cup team member and three-time USGA championship runner-up. 

"I get a feeling that this group is really anxious to play this Walker Cup ,” said Lewis , who is president and CEO of a steel tubing company.  “I want us to get excited and want to play as a team. The Walker Cup , to me, has always been the greatest amateur event going.”

Williams , a junior at Auburn University , was the runner-up at this year’s NCAA Championships.  He also won the Dogwood Invitational and the Greystone Invitational in June .  In reaching the semifinals of the 2003 U.S. Amateur, he defeated Walker Cup teammate Moore, the 2002 U.S. Amateur Public Links champion.  He lost to Wittenberg in his semifinal match.  In 2002, Williams won the Southern Amateur.

Zahringer is the reigning U.S. Mid-Amateur champion (age 25 and older) after being runner-up at the 2001 Mid-Amateur.  He reached the quarterfinals of the 2003 U.S. Amateur, which he had also done in 1992.  He has won the Metropolitan Golf Association Player of the Year nine times.  He was a quarterfinalist at the 1991 British Amateur that was played at Ganton Golf Club.

Tomasulo, a junior at the University of Southern California ( USC ), has four top-10 finishes in his 2003 amateur golf season, including runner-up placements at the Porter Cup and the Monroe Amateur.  He also reached the quarterfinals of the Western Amateur and finished third at the Rice Planters Amateur.  He has qualified for the last three U.S. Amateur championships.  He has been the top golfer on his college team for two seasons, posting a 70.1-stroke average last year.

Snedeker, a 2003 graduate of Vanderbilt University , tied the largest margin of victory (10 and 9) with his win at the 2003 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship.  Also in 2003, he was a member of the USA Palmer Cup team, was a quarterfinalist at the North and South Amateur, and started play at the Porter Cup with rounds of 63-62 before slipping to finish fourth after four rounds.  He earned first team All-America honors for his collegiate play in 2002-03 and was named Player of the Year in the Southeastern Conference.