DANNY YATES

Birthdate: May 3, 1950

Birthplace: Atlanta, Ga.

Age: 55 Ht: 5'10" Wt: 150

Home: Atlanta, Ga.

College: Univ. of Georgia

Player Notes: Earned the last qualifying spot with a birdie on the second playoff hole… In all, he has played in nearly 40 USGA championships, including one U.S. Open, in 1971, where he made the 36-hole cut. He has qualified for 17 U.S. Amateurs and 17 U.S. Mid-Amateurs…Played on the 1989 and 1993 USA Walker Cup team and was the captain in 1999 and 2001… He won the 1992 U.S. Mid-Amateur championship and was runner-up in the 1988 U.S. Amateur. By winning the Mid-Amateur, he was invited to play in the 1993 Masters Tournament…1993 Hugh Wilson champion at Merion …Played on the 1988 USA World Amateur Team Championship team…1974 Southern Amateur champion …Three-time Georgia Amateur Champion…One of only two players to win the State Amateur in three different decades…Four-time Georgia Player of the Year…Member of the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame and the Southern Golf Association Hall of Fame…Advanced to the semifinals of the U.S. Mid-Amateur for four consecutive years…Three-time Georgia Mid-Amateur champion…Member of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame… He served as director of the Atlanta Junior Golf Association (1982-1992), served on the USGA Junior Committee from 1985 to 1997 and currently serves on the USGA Green Section Committee…Nephew of Charlie Yates, who won the British Amateur, played on the 1936 and 1938 USA Walker Cup teams and was captain of the 1953 USA Walker Cup team…His dad, Dan, was also a golfer and all three are Georgia Amateur champions…Competed in one U.S. Junior.