West Penn duo earn Co-Low Scorer honors at U.S. Four-Ball Qualifying
By Josh Rowntree, Director of Communications • October 7, 2025
APOLLO — Back before the weather turned warm, Amani D’Ambrosio and Jack Wymard teamed up to win the WPGA’s Fred Brand Foursomes Championship.
Fast-forward nearly five months, with the warm weather still unseasonably lingering, and the duo managed to once again find success as a team.
D’Ambrosio and Wymard shot 9-under to claim co-Low Scorer honors and qualify for the 11th U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship on Monday at Willowbrook Country Club.
“Four-Ball is so fun to play in,” said Wymard who, like D’Ambrosio, is a member at Longue Vue Club. “Our strategy was to just keep hitting greens and keep giving ourselves looks. We had our streaks where putts kept dropping.
“We were just trying to make as many birdies as possible. I was just excited that Amani invited me out. It was a great time.”
The tandem was able to match Chambersburg, Pa. natives Calvin Mentzer and Scott Kegerreis, thanks to a birdie putt by D’Ambrosio on the team’s final hole — Willowbrook’s par-3 9th.
“I actually told Jack I thought that was to get us to 8-under,” D’Ambrosio said. “So, I knew it meant something. I didn't know if it was eight (under) or nine that we needed, but I knew we needed to make it."
It was needed. The putt kept D’Ambrosio and Wymard out of a playoff with two other teams — Brian Garrett and Matthew Copeland, and Sean Brannan and Anthony Degol — who settled for two alternate spots after a brief playoff to determine their positions.
For Wymard, who had only competed in one USGA qualifying event in his life — a U.S. Amateur Championship qualifier — the call from D’Ambrosio was one that came shortly following the pair’s win in the Brand Foursomes on May 19 at Allegheny Country Club. And it was a grouping that D’Ambrosio felt was necessary after a turbulent few weeks on the course.
“The back end of the summer, I haven't been playing well and kind of took some time off,” he said. “I haven't really played well up until now and started to see some things trend in the right direction. I felt good coming into today, and I know me and Jack always play well together, so I felt confident.”
The two not only battled an unusually warm early October afternoon — with temperatures reaching 85 degrees — but also a talented field and a challenging course in Willowbrook.
“I played here one time earlier this year, and I thought the course was awesome,” Wymard said. “The conditions were really good. The greens were really good. No complaints. I thought the course was great.”
Mentzer and Kegerreis will return to the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship, having played in the event a couple of years ago. D’Ambrosio and Wymard, however, will get their first taste of the national championship — even if it means having to wait out the winter before traveling to Scottsdale, Arizona for the event at the Desert Mountain Club from May 16-20.
“I have family out there, so it'll be nice to see them,” D’Ambrosio said. “I was telling Jack, ‘man, they really make us wait five months to play in it?’ Yeah, May can't come soon enough.”
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