Georgia teenager Mason Howell capped a productive summer before his senior year of high school by winning the U.S. Amateur at The Olympic Club on Sunday just two months after competing in his first U.

Howell, the 18-year-old product of Glen Arven Country Club in Thomasville, Georgia, beat Jackson Herrington on Sunday at the Olympic Club, 7 and 6, to win the Havemeyer Trophy, the latest step in his rise up the amateur golf ranks.

On the eve of one of his biggest golf outings of his young career, Mason Howell of Thomasville, Georgia, said, in so many words, that he slept like a champion after winning his semifinal match at