Our very own Lukas Michel won the US Mid-Amateur Championship held at the Colorado Golf Club overnight.
Lukas has been a member at Lake Karrinyup since joining our junior program back in 2003 when he was 9 years old. He represented the Club in Pennant on numerous occasions. Whilst retaining his membership at LKCC, Lukas moved to Melbourne in 2013 to attend university and took up membership with the Metropolitan Golf Club.
Lukas pulled off yet another remarkable comeback to become the first international winner of the US event, toppling Mississippi’s Joseph Deraney in a pulsating final. The 2&1 victory in the 36-hole decider on the rock-hard Common Ground Golf Course punched the Aussie’s ticket to two of next year’s major championships – a prize he’s yet to wrap his head around. This means an invitation to play Augusta National in April’s Masters, and also a berth in the US Open at the famous Winged Foot in New York, the site of Geoff Ogilvy’s 2006 major triumph.
“Unbelievable … almost too good to be true,” Michel said when asked how the title sounded.
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Congratulations to Lukas from all of us at Lake Karrinyup.