United States Amateur Championship (golf) tournament professional. Before World War II more top-level golfers chose to remain amateur, and the average age of U.S. Amateur champions was higher. Many of the leading figures in the history of golf have been U.S. Amateur Champion, including Bobby Jones five times, Jerome Travers four times, Jack Nicklaus twice and Tiger Woods three times (all consecutive; the only player to win three in a row). In 1993, Woods got knocked out to Kingshill Golf Club's Paul Page 2&1 in the last 16, but Woods' first win, as an 18-year-old in 1994, made him the youngest winner of the event,
2006 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship Sunriver, Oregon. 2006 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship The 2006 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship was a golf tournament contested from May 31 to June 3, 2006 at the Crosswater Club in Sunriver, Oregon. It was the 68th NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship. The team championship was won by the Oklahoma State Cowboys who captured their tenth national championship (and first since 2000) by three strokes over the Florida Gators. The individual national championship was won by Jonathan Moore, also from Oklahoma State. This was the first NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship hosted at the Crosswater