SAN FRANCISCO – Former Furman golfer Todd White teamed with Nathan Smith, his 2013 USA Walker Cup teammate, to defeat Sherrill Britt and Greg Earnhardt, 7 and 5, in the final match to win the inaugural U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship at The Olympic Club’s Lake Course on Wednesday.

White and Smith began the match with wins on the first four holes, including a 14-foot birdie putt by Smith on the third hole. Britt and Earnhardt won their only hole of the match on the fifth on a 6-foot birdie putt by Earnhardt but lost the sixth on a 9-foot birdie by White.

The next four holes were halved. Smith and White won the next two holes with pars to extend their lead to 6-up. The match and the championship were clinched on the par-3 13th when White hit a 7-iron to three feet for a conceded birdie. The 7-and-5 decision was the largest margin of victory in any round of the championship.

White, who has 16 past USGA championship appearances, and Smith played 76 consecutive holes in five rounds of match play without making a bogey. In 78 holes, their lone bogey, against 19 birdies, was on the second hole of the first round.

A high school history teacher who resides in Spartanburg, S.C., White won the 2015 Azalea Amateur. He competed on the Paladin team from 1987-90. White was a four-time All-Southern Conference selection and posted four career tournament victories. His 73.85 career stroke average ranks fifth in the Furman record books. White was inducted into Furman’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003.