Yes, you are getting old.
Competition at the Trinity Forest Forest Golf Club in Dallas is the four sons of the current or former PGA Tour players – Jackson Bird, Trevor Gutchevski, Cameron Kucher and Charlie Woods.
Bird Jonathan is the 18 -year -old son of Bird, who won five times on the PGA tour and was the year of the year in 2022. He was Russell’s runner -up at Junior Invitational in SEZ Valley earlier this year. He begins this decline in Claimson, where his uncle, Jordan Bird, Head Coach.
18, 18 and three -time Corn Ferry Tour winner Scott Gutschevsky’s oldest son Gutschevski, returning to protect his title, marking the first US Junior Champion to get that opportunity since Nick Dunlop in 2022 (Dunlop made the semi -finals that year). Gutschevski missed out on the Okmont cut at the US Open last month, although he quickly overturned to win the Western Junior. He will start his college career in Florida for this decline.
17-year-old Kuthar recently started his USGA after completing the runner-up for Gutshevsky in Western Junior and committed orally to TCU. His father, Matt Kuthar, nine -time PGA tour winner, nine -time rider and President Cooper, Olympic bronze medalist and USGA Champion (1997 US Amateur).
And then the 16 -year -old son of Tiger Woods, a 15 -time prominent champion, is Woods. Woods qualified for his second direct US Junior, a tournament his father won three times in his nine USGA titles. Woods North Palm Beach is a growing junior at Benjamin School in Florida, and the 2027 recruitment class can officially talk to college coaches as last month. He also shot the AJGA rankings, cracked the top 20 after winning the team tailord invitational in May, defeating the top ranked Junior Miles Russell with six shots in the process.
Woods shot 22 overs in the US Junior Debut in Okland Hills last year, which finished 240th in 264-Khiladi Maidan.
This year’s area is also deep with 38 states and 33 countries. After 36 holes of Stroke Play, the top 64 players will move forward in the first round of the match on Wednesday. The 36-Hole Final is slapped for Saturday.
Here are the other big storylines entering the 77th edition of US Junior:
Laftty takeover
Not only the top three players in the region are – Miles Russell, Luke Colon and Tyler Watts – all ranks in the top 50 of the official world golf rankings, but all three are leftist.
Russell is the highest place of trio at number 18, number 18. The 2027 star class recently made a verbal commitment to the State of Florida and this year is the master of victory in Junior Invitational in SEZ Valley and Ajga simplified the Boys Championship, as well as a runner-up in the Northeast Amateur. He has also won Boys Junior PGA and AJGA Junior Player, so US Junior is the last leading junior title that is still removing them.
The 18 -year -old vendorbult committed coleton from Texas’s Fisco is ranked 25th in the world. He is already playing his fifth USGA Championship and has reached the match in the US Junior twice. He is a two -time defending champion of Terra Cota Amateur.
Number 45 watt, 17, sure all three have the best heat. He won the Sunnahana amateur in June, with a record 18-under score and a few weeks later to the finals of North and South Amateur. He has also lost to Trevor Gutschevsky, who is the US Junior Final in Okland Hills last year. He is orally committed to Tennessee.
Can he do Mawhinney?
It is difficult to believe that this is Tyler Mawani’s US Junior Debut.
The 17-year-old, already a USGA title under its belt, a team that is forming a team with Vil Hartman, a 17-year-old, 17-year-old from Fleming Island in Florida, which is also in the area of this week, to win this year’s US Amateur for-Ball Championship. Mawhinney also won last year’s Canadian men’s amateur and then took advantage of his exemption in the RBC Canadian Open of the PGA Tour last month, fining 65th.
Mawhinney also reached 16 rounds in the last summer US Amateur.
Qatar, not a drawer
At the age of 14, Daniel Socolov is one of the youngest players in the ground. Only 13 -year -old children Luka Tiger Peterman Castillo and Salem Albaddal are younger.
Sokolov is also the first player from Qatar to play USGA Championship.
Sokolov was born to Russian parents in South Korea and went to Qatar when he was 5 years old. He was a bronze medalist at the 2024 billion Junior Championships and has played in Qatar Masters of DP World Tour twice, cut both times.
home cooking
This week 17 Texas are above it, only at the second place of any state behind California (24). Among them, 18 -year -old Reese is Roberts of Dallas.
Roberts is a Missouri signator and two -time American junior champion Jordan Spith, attended the same high school as Jesuit College Prep in Dallas. Roberts won Spith’s Ajaga event in doing so last year, the same year he won the Texas State Amateur in Trinity Forest.
