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2025 U.S. Amateur Champion Mason Howell breaks down his victory at The Olympic Club

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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On this week's episode of GOLF's Subpar, Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz are joined by 2025 U.S. Amateur Champion Mason Howell for an exclusive interview. The third-youngest player to hoist the Havemeyer Trophy talks the biggest moments from his win at The Olympic Club, how playing in the U.S. Open at Oakmont helped mentally prepare him for victory and what other schools were involved before he committed to play for the University of Georgia next year.

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Sleeze, the time has come.

1:07.0

Tommy Fleetwood is now a PGA tour winner,

1:09.8

winning the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup. Pretty dominating fashion, I would say. One by three. Looked great the entire week, but the whole question was, could he close on Sunday? Stretched it out to a three-shot lead very early. Made the turn with a three-shot lead. Then boom, all of a sudden, a two-shot swing on the 10th with Patrick Cantley, and he was only up one with eight to play. I feel like most of the golfing world, most of the fans out at Eastlake were all rooting for Tommy Fleetwood, and it was a stressful nine holes. Yeah, I mean, going into the day, it's like, you got Scotty there, what, four backstart and can't lay when scotty gets it out of bounds on his first t shot of the day, followed by Cantlay being three over through two, I was like, okay, this is the one right here. The two guys you're probably most concerned with Patrick Cantley and Scottie Sheffler just spotted you a few. You got to get this thing done. And he looked good, I mean, but he's looked good in a number of tournaments that you thought, like, this is the one. This is the one Tommy's going to close out. You go back to the traveler. I mean, there's a million of them.

3:07.6

And, I mean, ultimately, it came down to like that 15th you just got to avoid a disaster there what a fucking monstrous hole that is too by the way or can be I want to talk to you about this 15 30 okay because on on Saturday I believe it was right around like 228 yards 230 we saw 11 of 30 of 30 guys hit it in the water. Yeah. Earlier today, we were talking on radio and you're like, that hole might be a little much. My point to you is this. So when you're at Eastlake, and it's the Tour Championship, you want things to happen. And when you look at that back night at East Lake, there's really no hole. You go through the whole list on the back nine other than 15, we're like, there can actually be a disaster. Yes, you can make bogies. But there's not going to be any carnage like what we saw on 15. And it wasn't like people were making eights. It was hit in the water, go up, drop, make your five. Some guys made four. And you get out of there. So therefore, with it being the only really dramatic hole in the back, and I, like, I kind of like stretching it out. I said on Thursday and Friday, when they played it from 150, I was like, this sucks. They're being so soft. This is the only hole where something can really dramatically happen. 150 doesn't have a lot of juice, but 230 also. So like imagine if you set it up at 2.30 and then the wind starts blowing in the afternoon. I mean, that thing becomes impossible. When 11 of the best 30 on the planet are hitting in the water, it might be a little bit much. But the point being, like, he had to get through that without a disaster, which he did, ended up looking comfortable with three,

3:25.0

even though I think on the last hole, like it wasn't done until it was done. But there's other ways you can have drama on a golf course without having holes where you can make a 12. You know, you can have like driveable holes and things like that. But that whole, I'm just, I'm glad I don't have to play it from from 230 um but it was yeah it was ended up being a comfortable win which i think

3:26.1

is the way he needed it to be. And Scotty kind of looks not Scotty-esque, which probably, he's just set the bar so high that anytime he's not perfect on a Sunday, more or less, or a week, really, we kind of look like, oh, what's wrong with Scottie?

3:57.6

And you know what he finished fourth? And it's tied for four. Yeah, fourth. And it's like, oh,

4:01.1

it's like 14 straight. What a bad week. But he's a victim of his own success in that regard. Yeah, 14 straight top eights. I believe now 22 straight rounds in the 60s. But he did not look like himself. I don't know what was going on. I don't know if there's something off the course,

3:56.7

but even on Saturday, he showed up, he walked onto the T-box with one minute before his tea time, which, hey, he's there in time. But that just seems like pushing it a little bit. He's a guy, if you know, Scotty Shephyler at all, not on his phone very often. He's a guy when you text him happy birthday. He responds three months later and says, thanks.

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