Two 37-year-old children with combined departures from 154 Korn Ferry are among the five retaliation amateurs who reached the quarter-finals of the US 44th Mid-amateur.
Justin Hueber and Christian Brand are each three victories from the essentials in the masters of next year and US Open. Hueber, from Fort Wayne, Indiana, eliminated Grant Smith and Michael Buttacavoli on Tuesday at Troon Country Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, and will face Brandon Holtz on Wednesday morning. Brand, Hurricane, in Virginia-Western, now faces the defending champion Evan Beck after having shot down Nahum Mendoza and Marc Dull after following each opponent 2.
Hueber came out of the University of Indianapolis in 2009 and made 87 career departures during the Korn Ferry tour before the last time as a pro in 2021. Brand, who played collegially in Marshall, who became a pro in 2012 and recorded 67 quarry in career. Last year of the brand as a pro was 2019.
While Brand was again a lover last year, in time to make the 16 final at the American amateur 2024, Hueber has found his amateur status so recently that he does not have an official world amateur golf ranking.
The other reestablished amateurs are:
• Bobby Massa, 37, last year’s finalist in Beck, who played five years of professional golf course before arresting in 2015 because of the YIPS driver. Dallas’ performance coach, who was reintegrated as an amateur in 2019, beat Matt Liston and Ryan O’Rear on Tuesday to move to play Christian Cavaliere, who upset the United States champion in amateur Stewart Hagestad three times in the 16-year-old round. Cavaliere, who owns his own company Douce and New York, Tremont Sporting, won the Azalea Invitational and New York State Open Gend this assumption.
• Parker Edens, 35, who is now a chief male golf coach at South Dakota State, played four seasons as a pro, including the 2017 season as a KFT, before embarking on training in 2018. He will face Jeg Cochlin III after victories on Stephen Behr Jr. and Chris Kamin.
• Brandon Holtz, 38, was a basketball player for Illinois State before continuing the professional golf course after graduating in 2009. He retired in 2015 and regained his amateur status last year.
