Athletics

August 11, 2016 | Athletic Communications

UConn Golfer to Compete in U.S. Amateur Championship

Rising senior Eric Dietrich will compete for the national title at Oakland Hills Country Club in Michigan Aug. 15-21.

UConn's Eric Dietrich qualifies for U.S. Amateur Championship.

Rising senior Eric Dietrich will compete for the national title at Oakland Hills Country Club in Michigan later this month. (Athletic Communications/UConn Photo)

For the third time in four years, the UConn men’s golf team will be represented at the U.S. Amateur Championship.

UConn rising senior Eric Dietrich of Cheshire carded a blistering 8-under par 64 in the second round of the two-round U.S. Amateur qualifying tournament in July, to finish with a 9-under 135 (71-64=135), topping the 72-player field at Ellington Ridge Country Club.

The best two scores qualify to participate in the prestigious U.S. Amateur Championship, meaning Dietrich and Clark Robinson (70-68=138), a rising senior at Marshall University who hails from South Windsor, head for Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., to compete for the national title on Aug. 15-21.

Two years ago, then-UConn rising junior Zach Zaback qualified for the 2014 U.S. Amateur Championship; and three years ago, then-UConn rising sophomore Corey Birch qualified for the 2013 U.S. Amateur.