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The Sweet 16 have been decided for the 2016 Western Amateur at Knollwood in Lake Forest. Local players include Arlington Heights product Doug Ghim who is playing his college golf at the University of Texas. Nick Hardy of Northbrook, who is playing his college golf at the University of Illinois.

Dylan Meyer is a recent University of Illinois player who hails from Indiana. there are 13 other players in the “Sweet 16” but again this year the defending champion is not among them.

2015 Western Amateur at Rich Harvest Farms on Saturday August 8, 2015. Charles Cherney Photography

Last year at Rich Harvest Farms it was Beau Hossler who won in 2014 at Beverly, and earlier in the summer had clinched the winning point for Team USA at Rich Harvest Farms in the Palmer Cup who did make the first cut.

This year Dawson Armstrong of Lipscomb college who won at Rich Harvest in dramatic fashion who did not survive the first cut, down to 44 players.

Armstrong says he didn’t play his best golf in his final tune up for the U.S. Amateur at Oakland Hills in two weeks. Unless you count a practice round at Olympia Fields that hosted the U.S. Amateur in 2015, where Armstrong did not play.

But unlike the Masters, or the years it was held at the Point O’Woods in Michigan, the Western Amateur does move the championship around every year these days and unfortunately for Armstrong, it was not played this year again at Rich Harvest Farms. Armstrong would have loved to returned to the farm in Sugar Grove.

Click here to hear the interview with 2015 Western Amateur Champion Dawson Armstrong.

Armstrong will head back to college after the U.S. Amateur, but admits he will be pushing himself and teammates to make it to the NCAA Nationals. He want’s nothing more than another shot at a championship, on a course he loves to play.