Bradley Mulder of Spokane, Wash., Brock Maulding of Lake Tapps, Wash. and Dylan Burcham of Valencia, Calif. have been selected to represent Washington Golf in this year’s Morse Cup team competition, which takes place simultaneously with the 59th Pacific Coast Amateur Championship being held July 21-24 at Poppy Ridge Golf Course in Livermore, Calif.
The Morse Cup competition takes place during the first two days of the 72-hole stroke-play competition. There are 16 teams in the competition, one from each of the 16 golf associations that make up the Pacific Coast Golf Association. Two of the top three scores from each team in rounds one and two of the championship count for the Morse Cup portion of the event.
WA Golf Morse Cup Team
Bradley Mulder
- 2026 Washington Men’s Amateur – Champion
- 2025-2026 RMAC Men’s Golfer of the Year
- 2025 NCAA D-II National Championship – Runner-Up
Brock Maulding
- 2025 The Tindall – 11th
- 2026 Washington Men’s Amateur – Third Place
- 2026 U.S. Amateur Local Qualifying – Medalist
Dylan Burcham
- 2025 PNGA Men’s Amateur – Stroke Play Medalist
- 2025 Palouse Collegiate – Champion
- 2025 Coachella Amateur – Runner-Up
The Pacific Coast Amateur is one of seven premier amateur championships that make up the Elite Amateur Golf Series (EAGS), in which players earn World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) points and compete for the Elite Amateur Cup, with top finishers earning exemptions into USGA Championships, as well as PGA TOUR and Korn Ferry Tour events.
The Pacific Coast Amateur remains the West Coast’s elite-level event that is circled on all amateur golf calendars in North America. The championship has regularly received an “A” strength ranking by WAGR, as provided by the R&A and USGA.
This marks the first time Poppy Ridge – owned and operated by the Northern California Golf Association – will host the Pacific Coast Amateur. Its sister course, Poppy Hills in Pebble Beach, previously hosted the championship in 1996.
It was that year – 1996 – when what is now Poppy Ridge originally opened as a 27-hole facility with three 9-hole layouts. In May 2025, a 13-month total redesign and rebuilding of the course was completed, under the design of Jay Blasi, who had worked right beside Robert Trent Jones II to design Chambers Bay in Washington, which itself has hosted the Pacific Coast Amateur on three occasions (2017, 2021, 2024).
About the Pacific Coast Amateur Championship
The Pacific Coast Amateur Championship is one of the oldest and most prestigious amateur golf championships in North America. The first championship was held on the links of San Francisco Golf Club at The Presidio in 1901. After being played until 1911, The Pacific Coast Amateur then ceased to exist, only to be reconstituted at Seattle Golf Club in 1967. Today, 15 member Pacific Rim golf associations comprise the Pacific Coast Golf Association.
Held on an annual basis since 1967, the Pacific Coast Amateur Championship boasts a rich history of showcasing some of the most talented golfers in the United States and Canada.
Past champions of the Pacific Coast Amateur who have gone on to successful careers on the PGA Tour include Billy Mayfair (1987, 1988), Jason Gore (1997), Ben Crane (1998), Andrew Putnam (2010), Will Zalatoris (2016), Devon Bling (2021), Aaron Wise (2015) and Doug Ghim (2017).
