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Max Schreiber

When the U.S. Amateur Champion Got on a Roll, He Didn’t Change a Thing

Mason Howell, just 18 years old, won the U.S. Amateur last week at the Olympic Club. | Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images

Mason Howell didn’t have much time to celebrate winning the 125th U.S. Amateur. 

Three days after hoisting the Havemeyer Trophy at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, the 18-year-old attended his first day of senior year in Georgia. Obviously, he’s no ordinary high schooler. After starting classes a week and a half late, because of the Amateur, he wasn’t doing homework once he got home. Instead, Howell was doing a series of post-victory media interviews, with childhood pictures behind him. 

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