AUGUSTA, Ga. - Virginia Tech golfer Drew Weaver (Jr., High Point, N.C.) will compete in the 75th annual Masters Tournament, beginning this week at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga.
Weaver, the first Hokie ever to play in the event, earned a berth in the Masters Tournament with his victory at the 2007 British Amateur Championship in June at Royal Lytham & St. Annes in Lancashire, England.
The victory in the British Amateur also earned Weaver an exemption in the 2007 British Open Championship at Carnoustie and a four-year exemption into the U.S. Amateur Championship. He was six-over-par at the British Open Championship and missed the cut by two strokes. He advanced out of stroke play at the 2007 U.S. Amateur at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, before falling in the first round of match play.
Tee times and groupings for the event will be announced on Wednesday, April 6. The Masters will be televised on ESPN on Thursday and Friday and on CBS on Saturday and Sunday.
Weaver will be one of three amateurs playing in the Masters, joining U.S. Mid-Amateur Champion Trip Kuehne and U.S. Amateur runner-up Michael Thompson. Colt Knost, titleist at the U.S. Amateur and the U.S. Public Links Amateur, turned professional over the summer and lost his berth in the Masters.
Joining Weaver in the Masters will be former Hokie Johnson Wagner. Wagner, who played at Virginia Tech from 1998-2002, earned his last-minute trip to golf's most prestigious event by winning the Shell Houston Open on April 6. It was Wagner's first-ever PGA Tour victory and the first-ever win by a former Hokie in a PGA Tour event.
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