Rankings after going 4-0 in the Walker
Cup.
BEST COLLEGE pLAyEr (WOMEn)
Tie: UCLA junior Lilia Vu (Fountain
Valley) and Stanford sophomore An-
drea Lee (Hermoso Beach), ranked No.
4 and No. 5, respectively, in the
Women's WAGR.
BEST AMATEUr
Stewart Hagestad of Newport Beach,
a former USC golfer who won the 2016
Mid-Amateur Championship. Also was
low amateur at the 2017 Masters and a
member of the victorious U.S. team in
the 2017 Walker Cup at LA Country
Club. Honorable mention: John Pate of
Santa Barbara, Craig Steinberg of
Agoura Hills, Tim Hogarth of North-
ridge and John McClure of Los Ange-
les.
BEST SEnIOr AMATEUr (LIFETIME)
Kemp Richardson of Laguna Niguel.
The longtime El Niguel Country Club
member won the U.S. Senior Amateur and British
Senior Amateur in the same year (2001) and re-
peated at the US Senior Amateur in 2003, becom-
ing the 13th player in history to win that USGA
event twice. Already enshrined in U.S. Amateur
Golf Hall of Fame; his name also is on the Wall of
Champions in the USGA Museum and Arnold
Palmer Center for Golf History in Far Hills,
N.J. Maybe someday USC will figure out he
deserves to be in the USC Athletic Hall of
Fame.
BEST JUnIOrS (BOyS)
Ricky Castillo, Valencia High of Placentia,
No. 3 in Golfweek/Sagarin junior rankings
(OC); William Mouw, Ontario Christian High,
No. 20 (San Bernardino Co.); Charlie Reiter,
Palm Desert High, No. 31(Riverside Co.); Sam
Choi, Anaheim Discovery Christian High, No.
38 (OC).
BEST JUnIOrS (GIrLS)
Rose Zhang, Pacific Academy of Irvine, No.
6 in Golfweek/Sagarin junior rankings, No. 7
in AJGA rankings, No. 44 in World Junior
Rankings; Brooke Seay, Francis Parker High of
Rancho Santa Fe, No. 12 in Golfweek, No. 9 in
AJGA; Calista Reyes, Rancho Bernardo High,
No. 8 in Golfweek.
BEST dIGITAL GOLF pUBLICATIOn
We'll let you decide. .
Randy Youngman has covered golf in Southern
California, at the professional and amateur levels, for
more than 25 years. He can be reached at SoCalGol-
fRY@aol.com.
2017 BEST OF
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Top senior amateur Kemp Richardson.
