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| Wednesday, July 16 |
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| Rosenfeld wins U.S. Junior Amateur By C.J. Lampman SchoolSports.com | |||
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It's one thing to be mentioned in the same article as Tiger Woods. It's another to be mentioned in the same paragraph. But the same sentence? Thanks to his performance at last week's U.S. Junior Amateur golf tournament, Greenhill High (Texas) junior-to-be Matthew Rosenfeld will have his name forever linked with that of the greatest golfer on the planet. Rosenfeld, who beat Washington's Ryan Moore 3 and 2 for the title, became the first golfer since Tiger in ?92 to win both the stroke play and the match play portions of the tourney. He was also the first since Tiger to make it to the semifinals in consecutive years. "Obviously, it's a good feeling (to be linked with Tiger)," says Rosenfeld, 16, who lives in the Plano, Texas, area. "There's a lot I can take from accomplishing the same thing as him, but he's at a different level than everyone else. I'm just looking to the future and hoping to maybe accomplish some more of the same things as him." Well, he's certainly headed down the same road. In addition to the U.S. Junior Amateur title, Rosenfeld has plenty going for him. He is currently the No. 1-ranked boys' junior golfer in the country, according to the Golfweek/Titleist rankings, thanks to consistent top showings at American Junior Golf Association events. Some may see the ranking as burdensome and pressure-filled, but Rosenfeld loves having the spotlight shining directly on him. "I have a lot of confidence and I know everyone's trying to go for me, but that's a good thing," he says. "It makes me want to push myself to play even better so I can separate myself from everyone else." The confidence Rosenfeld mentions was not something he possessed until fairly recently. He did make it to the semis of the U.S. Junior Amateur last year, but he says his play was erratic. "I realized it took me too long to get to where I wanted to be in the summer," says Rosenfeld. So this past winter he began working with teacher Steve Johnson, of the Hank Kuehne Golf Ranch, to improve his play and confidence. According to Rosenfeld, the two worked together one to two times a week. The extra hours have clearly paid off. "I have a lot of confidence now," says Rosenfeld, who won all six high school tourneys he competed in this past spring. "I know I'm going to make birdies." This week Rosenfeld competed in the Cannon Cup, a team tournament between the top 10 boys and girls from the East and the top 10 boys and girls from the West.
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