Nathan T. Smith (born August 16, 1978) is an American

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golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

er. Smith won the

U.S. Mid-Amateur The U.S. Mid-Amateur, often called the Mid-Am for short, is the leading annual golf tournament in the United States for post-college amateur golfers, organized by the USGA. It was first played in at Bellerive Country Club in Creve Coeur, Missouri, ...

four times (2003, 2009, 2010, 2012), the

Sunnehanna Amateur The Sunnehanna Amateur, officially the Sunnehanna Amateur Tournament for Champions, is a men's amateur golf tournament. Founded in 1954, it is hosted annually at the Sunnehanna Country Club in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States. It is consider ...

(2011), the

Pennsylvania Amateur The Pennsylvania Amateur Golf Championship is an annual golf tournament in the American state of Pennsylvania. Jay Sigel Robert Jay Sigel (born November 13, 1943) is an American professional golfer. He enjoyed one of the more illustrious caree ...

twice (2002, 2009), the West Penn Amateur four times (2007–10), and the R. Jay Sigel Match Play three times (2011, 2013, 2015). He also won the inaugural

U.S. Amateur Four-Ball The U.S. Amateur Four-Ball is an amateur golf tournament conducted by the United States Golf Association (USGA). It was first played in 2015 and replaced the U.S. Amateur Public Links, an individual tournament that was played from 1922 to 2014. Th ...

, with Todd White, in 2015. Smith played in three consecutive

Walker Cup The Walker Cup is a golf trophy contested in odd-numbered years by leading male amateur golfers in two teams: United States, and Great Britain and Ireland. The official name is the Walker Cup Match (not "Matches" as in Ryder Cup Matches). It is ...

s (2009, 2011, 2013). Smith has played in five major championships (four Masters and one U.S. Open) but missed the cut in each of them. He came within one shot of making the cut at the

2004 Masters Tournament The 2004 Masters Tournament was the 68th Masters Tournament, held April 8–11 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Phil Mickelson, 33, won his first major championship with a birdie on the final hole to win by one stroke over runner ...

, but had a double-bogey on the 36th and final hole.

Amateur wins (16)

*2002

*2003

*2007 West Penn Amateur *2008 West Penn Amateur *2009 West Penn Amateur,

*2010 West Penn Amateur,

*2011 R. Jay Sigel Match Play,

*2012

*2013 R. Jay Sigel Match Play *2015

(with Todd White), R. Jay Sigel Match Play *2017 R. Jay Sigel Match Play Source:

Results in major championships

''Note: Smith only played in the

Masters Tournament The Masters Tournament (usually referred to as simply The Masters, or the U.S. Masters outside North America) is one of the four major championships in professional golf. Scheduled for the first full week of April, the Masters is the first maj ...

and the U.S. Open.'' CUT = missed the half-way cut

U.S. national team appearances

Amateur *

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(winners),

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(winners)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Nathan American male golfers Amateur golfers Allegheny College alumni People from Brookville, Pennsylvania 1978 births Living people