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Christo Lamprecht appeared four times at the South African Open Championship and was the youngest player in the field when he made his debut in 2018.

Where did Christo Lamprecht go to college and high school?

Lamprecht had a successful amateur career and became the youngest player ever to win the South African Amateur Championship in 2017. His father introduced him to golf at age 3 and he attended Outeniqua High School.

Lamprecht is Currently in his third year playing college golf at Georgia Tech and studying business administration. With one victory and three runner-up finishes in 2022–23, he was ranked 10th nationally by Golfstat 5th in the Golfweek/Sagarin Index, and a semifinalist for the Ben Hogan Award.

In 2018, he became the first international champion of the East of Ireland Amateur, tied for eighth at the St Andrews Links Trophy, and tied for 11th place at the Junior Players Championship in Jacksonville, Florida.

In 2021, he tied for 4th at The Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship in Trinity, Texas, where he captained the South African team finishing eighth overall and fifth in the men’s event.