The three players who will represent the USA in the 2022 World Amateur Team Championship, to be played Aug. 31-Sept. 3 at Le Golf National in Paris, France, have been finalized. The players, who all rank inside the Top-10 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings ® (WAGR), are Austin Greaser, 20, of Valdalia, Ohio, Gordon Sargent, 19, of Birmingham, Ala., and Michael Thorbjornsen, 20, of Wellesley, Mass.

The World Amateur Team Championships are conducted by the International Golf Federation (IGF). The IGF also conducts the golf competitions in the Olympic Games and Youth Olympic Games.

Diana Murphy, past USGA president, will serve as captain of the USA Team.

Greaser earned a spot in the 2022 U.S. Open by finishing runner-up to James Piot in the 2021 U.S. Amateur at Oakmont Country Club. The rising senior at the University of North Carolina was one of only four amateurs to make the cut at The Country Club. Greaser recently won the 2022 Western Amateur Championship, defeating Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira in the final match. He was a quarterfinalist in the 2019 U.S. Junior Amateur at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio, losing to eventual champion Preston Summerhays. In April, he missed the cut at the Masters Tournament, his first major-championship start. He is currently ranked No. 5 in WAGR.

Sargent won the 2022 NCAA individual championship in a playoff with Oklahoma State’s Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra. During his first year at Vanderbilt, he earned the 2022 Phil Mickelson Outstanding Freshman Award, Ping First-Team All-America, Golfweek First-Team All-America, Southeastern Conference (SEC) Freshman of the Year and was a Haskins Award finalist. He also won the Mossy Oak Collegiate and finished fourth in the Northeast Amateur. Last year, he was runner-up to Michael Thorbjornsen in the Western Amateur and was a quarterfinalist in the U.S. Junior Amateur. He is currently No. 4 in WAGR.

Thorbjornsen competed in the 2022 U.S. Open at The Country Club and finished fourth at the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship the following week. The rising junior at Stanford University won the 2018 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, defeating Akshay Bhatia, 1 up, at Baltusrol Golf Club. He became the second-youngest player (age 17) since World War II to make the 36-hole cut in the U.S. Open in 2019, finishing79th at Pebble Beach. He won the 2016 Drive, Chip & Putt National Final (ages 14-15) at Augusta National Golf Club and was the 2012 and 2013 U.S. Kids Golf National Player of the Year. He is currently ranked No. 6 in WAGR.

The alternates, in order, are Stewart Hagestad, 31, of Newport Beach, Calif., and Travis Vick, 22, of Hunters Creek Village, Texas.

Sargent received an automatic selection to the USA team due to his WAGR ranking. The selections of Greaser and Thorbjornsen were decided by the USGA’s International Team Selection Committee.

The World Amateur Team Championship was founded in 1958, and the Women’s World Amateur Team Championship began in 1964. The IGF was founded in 1958 to encourage the international development of golf through friendship and sportsmanship. Today, the IGF consists of 151 national governing bodies of golf representing 146 countries and is the international federation for golf for the International Olympic Committee.

The championship was last played in 2018 in the Republic of Ireland, with the team from Denmark capturing the Eisenhower Trophy by one stroke over the United States.