Drew Weaver

Weaver shot rounds of 69 and 70 at the Rockville, Maryland qualifying tournament to earn his spot in the field.
Weaver was only the 22nd different American to win the British Amateur and the first American to do it since Jay Sigel in 1979. Weaver beat the 2006 Australian Amateur champion Tim Stewart 2 and 1 in the finals. He became just the sixth American player to win it on his first try.
But if fate didn't play a different role on April 16 he might not have even been at the Amateur.
Weaver, a junior then at Virginia Tech was almost trapped in the same Engineering Hall in which so many people lost their lives. He was just 100 yards from walking into that building when Cho Seung-Hui begin his killing spree. Weaver heard the shots and ran for his life, finding refuge in the campus library. "I dedicated the entire week to the 32 who died that day," Weaver said after victory over Stewart. "Winning the British Amateur is so minute compared to what happened to the victims that week." Weaver had the help of his father John, who carried his son's bag, which had a patch on it that read "Virginia Tech remembers 4:16:07.�?� Weaver got to play in the British Open the next month and this year will play in the Masters and the U.S. Open.