THE FLATS – Georgia Tech rising junior Christo Lamprecht turned out to be a key member of the International team in helping his side complete a 33-27 victory over Team USA in the 2022 Arnold Palmer Cup in Geneva, Switzerland.
The native of George, South Africa did not earn automatic qualification for the International team based on points – he ranked seventh and the top six were automatic choices to represent the International side – but earned a spot on the team as a captain’s pick. Lamprecht wound up winning three of his four matches in the annual event, a three-day event in which 12 men’s ad 12 women’s players representing each side compete in mixed fourball, mixed foursomes, men’s and/or women’s foursomes and singles matches.
Lamprecht teamed with Taiwan’s Heather Lin, a senior at the University of Oregon, to defeat the Stanford duo of Michael Thorbjornsen and Rose Zhang, 1-up, in the opening round, then downed the American team of Jake Doggett and Olivia Mitchell, 3&2, in the third round. The 50th-ranked amateur in the world added a third point for the International team Sunday by taking down the 15th-ranked amateur Travis Vick of Texas, 3&2, in the final-round singles.
An All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection and a third-team All-American last spring, Lamprecht finished the spring ranked No. 27 in the nation by both Golfstat and the Golfweek/Sagarin Index. He tied for ninth place (287, -1) in June in the European Amateur Championship in Valencia, Spain.
Lamprecht posted six top-10 finishes in 12 events in the collegiate season in 2021-22, including a tie for third place in stroke play and a pair of match victories at the ACC Championship. He also tied for second place at the Southern Highlands Collegiate, fourth at The Calusa Cup and eighth at The Goodwin in the spring. He led the Yellow Jackets in stroke average at 70.22, which ranks No. 6 in program history for a single year.