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Monday
Nov052012

14-Year Old Qualifies for Masters

If you spent the day watching NFL football all day Sunday, you might've missed this.

Guan Tianlang (first name pronounced like the name “Juan”) is from China and he won the Asian-Pacific Amateur Championship in Thailand on Sunday, shooting a final round 1-under par 71 to finish at 15-under and win by one stroke.  Guan made a clutch 5-footer for par on the 18th hole with the tourney on the line to clinch the victory and the spot in Augusta.

At 14 years, five months and 17 days Tianlang will be the youngest player to compete in the Masters by more than two years.  Italy’s Matteo Manassero played in the Masters at the age of 16 in 2010 after winning the ’09 British Amateur.  Earlier this year at the age of 13, Guan became the youngest competitor ever to play in a European Tour event when he teed it up at the China Open.

Can't wait to see this teenager walking the hallowed grounds of Augusta National.

Could you imagine the story if he won it?

Or the Champion's Dinner the following year?

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