Yes, you get older.
The competition in the American junior amateur this week at the Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas includes four sons of the current or former players of the PGA Tour – Jackson Byrd, Trevor Gutschewski, Cameron Kuchar and Charlie Woods.
Byrd is the 18 -year -old son of Jonathan Byrd, who won the PGA Tour five times and was recruited of the year in 2022. He was a finalist in Russell to the Junior Invitational in Sage Valley earlier this year. He begins this fall in Clemson, where his uncle, Jordan Byrd, is the head coach.
Gutschewski, 18 and the son of the triple winner of Korn Ferry Tour Scott Gutschewski, returns to defend his title, marking the first American junior champion to obtain this opportunity from Nick Dunlap in 2022 (Dunlap did the semi-finals that year). Gutschewski missed the Cup at Us Open last month in Oakmont, although he rebounded quickly to win the Western junior. He will start his university career in Florida this fall.
Kuchar, 17, made his USGA debut after recently finished finalist in Gutschewski in the west junior and loudly committed to TCU. His father, Matt Kuchar, is a winner of nine times PGA Tour, Nine Time Ryder and Cupper presidents, Olympic bronze medalist and USGA champion (American amateur 1997).
And then there is Woods, the 16 -year -old son of the big major champion Tiger Woods. Woods qualified for his second consecutive American junior, a tournament that his father won three times among his nine USGA titles. Woods is an amount of the Benjamin School in North Palm Beach, Florida, and the 2027 recruit class can officially speak to university coaches last month. He also increased the AJGA ranking, making the Top 20 after winning the Taylormade Invitational team in May, beating the first row junior miles by six shots in the process.
Woods drew 22 in the US junior beginnings last year in Oakland Hills, equaling the 240th in the field of 264 players.
This year’s field is also 264 players in depth with 38 states and 33 countries represented. The 64 main players after 36 holes of stroke will go to the first round of match on Wednesday. The 36 -hole final is scheduled for Saturday.
Here are the other major scenarios entering the 77th edition of the US Junior:
Take-over
Not only are the best three players in this area – Miles Russell, Luke Colton and Tyler Watts – all classified in the top 50 in the official golf ranking, but all three are left.
Russell, 16, is the highest classified in the trio, in n ° 18. The 2027 Star class recently gave its verbal commitment to Florida State and has victories this year at the Junior Invitational in Sage Valley and Ajga Simplify Boys Championship, plus a finalist to the northeast amateur. He also won the junior junior boys players and the AJGA junior players, so the American junior is the last major junior title that still eludes him.
Colton, a Vanderbilt engagement of 18 years of Frisco, Texas, is classified n ° 25 in the world. He already played his fifth USGA championship and has reached the match twice at the US Junior. He is the double champion in title of the amateur Terra Cotta.
N ° 45 Watts, 17, is undoubtedly the best of the three. He won the Sunnehanna lover in June with a record score of 18 sous and a few weeks later, reached the final of the North and South amateur. He also lost against Trevor Gutschewski is the US junior final last year in Oakland Hills. He is verbally engaged in Tennessee.
Can a card Hinhannery?
It is hard to believe that it is the American junior beginnings of Tyler Mawhinney.
The 17 -year -old Fleming Island player in Florida already has a USGA title to his credit, teaming up with the future teammate of Vanderbilt, Will Hartman, who is also on this week, to win the American four American ball championship this year. Mawhinney also won the lover of Canadian men from last year, then took advantage of his exemption in the PGA Tour RBC Tour last month, equaling the 65th.
Mawhinney also reached the 16 final in the American amateur last summer.
Qatar, not a drawer
At 14, Daniil Sokolov is one of the youngest players in the field. Only the 13 years Luka Tiger Peterman Castillo and Salem Alabdallat are younger.
Sokolov is also the first Qatar player to play a USGA championship.
Sokolov was born in South Korea to Russian parents and moved to Qatar at the age of 5. He was bronze medalist in the 2024 Junior Junior Championship and played twice in the Qatar Masters of the DP World Tour, missing the cup twice.
Homemade kitchen
There are 17 Texans around him this week, the second Plus of all the states behind California only (24). Among them, Reese Roberts, 18, from Dallas.
Roberts is a signatory of the Missouri and attended the same high school as the double American junior champion Jordan Spieth, Jesuit College Prep in Dallas. Roberts won Spieth’s AJGA event, doing it last year, the same year that he won the Texas State amateur at Trinity Forest.
