Junior Presidents Cup

The Junior Presidents Cup is a junior team golf competition between the United States and an International team representing the rest of the world excluding Europe. It is based around the Presidents Cup and is run by the PGA Tour and American Junior Golf Association. The inaugural 2017 event took place at the Plainfield Country Club, Edison, New Jersey on September 25 and 26.[1] The 2019 event was held on 8 and 9 December 2019

Junior Presidents Cup
Tournament information
Location2019: Melbourne, Australia
Established2017
Course(s)2019: Royal Melbourne Golf Club
FormatMatch play
Month playedDecember
Current champion
United States

The teams consist of 12 junior boys aged 19 or younger. Players must be amateurs who have not yet started college and are not members of a competitive collegiate golf program. Members of each team qualify through a ranking system. In 2017 the US team qualification was determined by the Rolex AJGA Rankings, while the International Team selection used the World Amateur Golf Rankings.[2] 11 members of each team were selected based on the rankings on August 3 with the final place being given to the leading player in the rankings, not already qualified, on September 6.[3][4] In 2019 the same system was used except that all 12 members of the team were selected based on the rankings on September 5.

The event is held over two days, with six fourballs and six foursomes matches on the first day, and twelve singles matches on the second day.[5]

Results
YearVenueLocationWinning teamScoreUSA captainInternational captain
2019 Royal Melbourne Golf Club Melbourne, Australia United States 13–11 Justin Leonard Stuart Appleby
2017 Plainfield Country Club Edison, New Jersey United States 14–10 David Toms Trevor Immelman

Teams

United States
  • 2019: Stephen Campbell Jr., Canon Claycomb, Jack Heath, Benjamin James, Maxwell Moldovan, Brett Roberts, Vishnu Sadagopan, Ian Siebers, Preston Summerhays, Michael Thorbjornsen, Jackson Van Paris, Alexander Yang
  • 2017: Garrett Barber, Akshay Bhatia, Jacob Bridgeman, Prescott Butler, Canon Claycomb, Noah Goodwin, Cole Hammer, Joe Highsmith, Eugene Hong, Turner Hosch, William Mouw, Trent Phillips

International
  • 2019: Jordan Duminy, Joshua Greer, Bo Jin, Christo Lamprecht, Lee Jang-hyun, Lin Chuan-tai, Jayden Schaper, Kartik Sharma, Samuel Simpson, Karl Vilips, Martin Vorster, Andi Xu
  • 2017: Joshua Armstrong, Luca Filippi, Garrick Higgo, Christo Lamprecht, Fred Lee, Sean Maruyama, Naraajie Emerald Ramadhan, Jayden Schaper, Rayhan Thomas, Karl Vilips, Atiruj Winaicharoenchai, Wocheng Ye

See also

References
  1. "Junior Presidents Cup announced as new precursor to Presidents Cup 2017". www.ajga.org. October 5, 2016.
  2. "2017 Junior Presidents Cup selection, eligibility criteria finalized". www.ajga.org. November 19, 2016.
  3. "First Junior Presidents Cup Qualifiers Announced". www.ajga.org. August 2, 2017.
  4. "Junior Presidents Cup field finalized". www.ajga.org. September 6, 2017.
  5. "Day 1 at #JrPresidentsCup". www.ajga.org. September 24, 2017.
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