LOS ANGELES – Cal junior Collin Morikawa has been selected for to the 2017 United States Walker Cup Team that will meet Great Britain and Ireland in the 46th Walker Cup Match. The biennial amateur team competition takes place Sept. 9-10 at The Los Angeles Country Club's North Course.

"It is such an honor to be selected to the Walker Cup, and I'm very excited to represent the USA in a couple of weeks," Morikawa said. "Making the team was one of my goals at the beginning of the year and to have this opportunity is a dream come true."

"Being selected to the Walker Cup is perhaps one of the biggest accomplishments any amateur golfer can achieve," Cal's Alex and Marie Shipman Director of Men's Golf Walter Chun added. "Collin's spectacular play has merited this noteworthy recognition. I am excited for Collin. It will be an experience he will always cherish."

Morikawa's selection continued a tremendous 2017 summer of amateur golf that began when he also represented his country at the Arnold Palmer Cup in June to help Team USA defeat Team Europe. Morikawa was selected by both teams to receive Team USA's exemption into the PGA TOUR's Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard in 2018. He was chosen for best representing the "Arnold Palmer legacy", that is, the values that Arnold Palmer exhibited through his life in golf.

Morikawa also won the prestigious Northeast Amateur while reaching a playoff before eventually finishing second at the Sunnehanna Amateur and tying for second at the Trans-Mississippi Amateur Championship. Morikawa most recently reached the Round of 16 at the U.S. Amateur for the second straight year after tying for eighth in stroke play and just missed qualifying for stroke play at the Western Amateur after having shared the lead after the opening round.

In 2016, he won the Sunnehanna Amateur, reached a playoff before tying for second at his first pro event as an amateur at the Web.com Tour's Air Capital Classic presented by Aetna, reached the Round of 16 at the U.S. Amateur and made his PGA TOUR debut by playing as an amateur at the Safeway Open.

Morikawa is currently ranked as high as the world's No. 2 amateur golfer according to the Scratch Players World Amateur Ranking while the Men's World Amateur Golf Ranking has him at No. 6.

Morikawa has also established himself as one of the elite golfers in Cal history during his first two seasons with the program in 2015-16 and 2016-17 with 15 top-10 and 22 top-20 finishes in his first 25 collegiate events. Morikawa earned his first career victory at the ASU Thunderbird Invitational after making his first playoff in his previous event at the Southern Highlands Collegiate, both in March of 2017. Morikawa finished the 2016-17 campaign ranked as high as the nation's No. 4 collegiate golfer according to Golfstat when he racked up the honors for the second straight season as a Division I PING First-Team All-American, as well as a semifinalist for both the Jack Nicklaus Player of the Year Award and The Ben Hogan Award leading the way. As a collegiate rookie in 2015-16, Morikawa became Cal's first player to earn a spot on the GCAA's Freshman All-American team and was also a third-team GCAA All-American among a host of honors.