Nick Dunlap, the newly minted US Amateur champion, already had secured his spot on the US team that will take on Great Britain & Ireland in the 49th Walker Cup. On Sunday, the bulk of the team was selected for the honor to compete on the Old Course at St Andrews, September 2-3.

At the conclusion of the US Am, the USGA announced at Cherry Hills Country Club that Nick Gabrelcik, Austin Greaser, Stewart Hagestad, Ben James, Dylan Menante and Preston Summerhays would join the players already selected — Dunlap, David Ford, Gordon Sargent and Caleb Surratt. (Michael Thorbjornsen had earned his place on the team but had to withdraw because of a back injury).

“I am beyond excited to have our full team set as we begin to prepare for the Old Course,” said US captain Mike McCoy.

GB&I is set to announce its team on Monday.

A brief look at each of the six players picked on Sunday:

• Hagestad, 32, of Newport Beach, California, is the only non-college player on the team. He has been a member of three winning US Walker Cup teams (2017, 2019, 2021) and reached the quarter-finals of both the 2022 and 2020 US Amateurs. He has played in 26 USGA championships, including two victories in the Mid-Amateur.
• Summerhays, 21, of Scottsdale, Arizona, reached match play in this week’s US Amateur, falling in the Round of 64. The Arizona State product has played in two US Opens and won the 2019 US Junior. He comes from a famed golf family based in Utah, with his father, Boyd, works as an instructor for Tony Finau among others.
• Greaser, 21, of Vandalia, Ohio, was runner-up to James Piot in the 2021 US Amateur, played in the 2022 Masters. The fifth-year senior at North Carolina also won the 2022 Western Amateur.
• Gabrelcik, 21, of Trinity, Florida, is a rising senior at the Universeity of North Florida who made the semi-finals of the 2021 US Amateur at Oakmont. He won the Southern Amateur this summer.
• James, 19, of Milford, Connecticut, advanced to the quarter-finals of this week’s US Amateur. The rising Virginia sophomore won the 2023 Phil Mickelson Outstanding Freshman Award and was a First-Team Ping All-American.
• Menante, 22, of Carlsbad, California, is the first North Carolina player to finish in the top 10 in both an NCAA regional (T-6) and the NCAA Championship (T-4) in the same season. The fifth-year senior transferred last year from Pepperdine, where he was twice named West Coast Conference Player of the Year. He reached the semi-finals of the 2022 US Amateur.