Hokie ClubFormer Virginia Tech golfers Nick MacDonald and Jurrian van der Vaart have been selected to play for their respective countries, Zimbabwe and the Netherlands, in the World Amateur Team Championship to be played in Australia later this month.
Van der Vaart is one of four players selected by the Netherlands. The Netherlands national golf association will select three players from the group to compete in the event. Van der Vaart Jurrian received an exemption into a European Challenge Tour event last month, which is the European PGA’s equivalent to the PGA Tour’s Nationwide Tour. He was one of four amateurs to make the cut.
MacDonald’s younger brother, Marc, who won the Zimbabwe National Amateur Championship this summer, will join Nick on Zimbabwe’s national team. In 1999, Brendon de Jonge also won the Zimbabwe National Amateur and finished 20th in the World Amateur Team Championship. De Jonge is currently the money leader on the Nationwide Tour and has assured his return to the PGA Tour for next season.