U.S. JUNIOR AMATEUR
77th U.S. Junior Amateur: Inside the Field
FIELD NOTES – Among the 264 golfers in the 2024 U.S. Junior Amateur field, there are:
Oldest Competitors: Will Hartman (18, born on 7-28-2006), Brayden Miller (18, born on 7-29-2006), Jackson Byrd (18, born on 7-30-2006), Harper Ackermann (18, born on 8-5-2006), Sebi Aliaga (18, born on 8-8-2006)
Youngest Competitors: Luka Tiger Peterman Castillo (13, born on 6-21-2012), Salem Alabdallat (13, born on 11-30-2011), Daniil Sokolov (14, born on 2-15-2011), Hashem Shana’ah (14, born on 8-1-2010), Lukas Schleyer (14, born on 12-3-2010).
Average Age of Field: 16.84
Field breakdown by age:
13: 1 Competitor
14: 3 Competitors
15: 30 Competitors
16: 57 Competitors
17: 80 Competitors
18: 93 Competitors
U.S. States Represented – There are 38 states represented in the 2025 U.S. Junior Amateur, as well as Puerto Rico:
Alabama (5), Arizona (5), California (26), Colorado (5), Connecticut (2), Florida (16), Georgia (10), Idaho (1), Illinois (5), Indiana (6), Iowa (2), Kansas (2), Kentucky (1), Louisiana (2), Maryland (2), Massachusetts (3), Michigan (4), Minnesota (6), Mississippi (1), Missouri (5), Nebraska (2), Nevada (1), New Hampshire (3), New Jersey (1), New York (3), North Carolina (11), Ohio (5), Oklahoma (3), Oregon (3), Pennsylvania (3), Puerto Rico (2), South Carolina (4), Tennessee (6), Texas (17), Utah (4), Vermont (1), Virginia (8), Washington (1), Wisconsin (3).
International – There are 33 countries represented in the 2025 U.S. Junior Amateur:
United States of America (186), Australia (2), Bolivia (1), Canada (13), Chinese Taipei (2), Colombia (3), Costa Rica (1), Dominican Republic (1), England (2), Estonia (1), Gibraltar (1), Hong Kong, China (4), Iceland (1), India (1), Indonesia (1), Jordan (4), Mexico (6), Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), Pakistan (1), Panama (1), People’s Republic of China (10), Qatar (1), Republic of Ireland (1), Republic of Korea (2), Scotland (1), Singapore (2), Spain (1), Sweden (1), Switzerland (1), Thailand (5), Ukraine (1), Vietnam (2)
Most U.S. Junior Amateur Appearances (including 2025): Edan Cui, Nicholas Gross, Mason Howell, Shiv Parmar, and Michael Mikus Vasquez — each making their fourth appearance in the championship.
Players in the Top 120 of the World Amateur Golf Ranking®/WAGR® (as of 7/17/25):
Drive, Chip & Putt National Finalists (10): Jace Benson (2022, ages 10-11 and 2023, ages 12-13), Trace Carter (2022, ages 14-15), Hamilton Coleman (2022, ages 12-13), Nicholas Gross (2018, ages 10-11), Henry Guan (2021, ages 10-11), Zach Huang (2018, ages 10-11), Michael Jorski (2018, ages 7-9 and 2022, ages 12-13 WIN), Cole Kim (2019, ages 7-9 and 2021, ages 10-11), Bradford Lacefield (2021, ages 12-13), Tyler Mawhinney (2017, ages 7-9), and Miles Russell (2018, ages 7-9 and 2021, ages 10-11).
Members of the U.S. National Development Program (25): Ronin Banerjee, Jace Benson, Trace Carter, Hamilton Coleman, Luke Colton, Phillip Dunham, Max Emberson, Brayden Forte, Henry Guan, Trevor Gutschewski, Josiah Hakala, Will Hartman, Mason Howell, Austin Hunt, Cole Kim, Tyler Mawhinney, Will Pinson, Michael Riebe, Miles Russell Jaden Soong, Cole Stockard, Kailer Stone, Grady Thompson, Tyler Watts, Branden Wong.
Members of the U.S. National Junior Team (10): Ronin Banerjee, Luke Colton, Phillip Dunham, Henry Guan, Trevor Gutschewski, Will Hartman, Tyler Mawhinney, Michael Riebe, Miles Russell (2024), Tyler Watts.
Players from Texas (17): Mackey Beckett, Luke Colton, Tripp Depoy, Henry Guan, Isaiah Igo, Lucas Latimer, Cooper Mcdole, Charlie Novel, Colton O’Dell, Shiv Parmar, Jack Patton, Reese Roberts, Tyler Sanford, Brooks Simmons, Raines Watson, Adam Villanueva, JJ Worrell.
Played in 2024 U.S. Junior Amateur (51): Seonghyeon An, Ajalawich Anantasethakul, Nguyen Anh Minh, Carson Bertagnole, Xihuan Chang, North Chery, Hamilton Coleman, Luke Colton, Owen Coniaris, Edan Cui, Dru Devata, Phillip Dunham, Samuel Duran, Mack Edwards, Brayden Forte, Ayden Fynaut, Samuel Gonzalez Rivera, Nicholas Gross, Henry Guan, Trevor Gutschewki, Josiah Hakala Will Hartman, Lapassapon Liberto Heras-Gomez, Alex Holder, Zenghao Hou, Mason Howell, Sean Keeling, Neil Kulkarni, Brayden Lee, Brayden Miller, Shiv Parmar, Evan Pena, Lucas Politano, Tomas Restrepo, Michael Riebe, Miles Russell, Mousa Shana'ah, Benxing Shi, R.J. Shieh, Brooks Simmons, Brody Sorrell,Troy Storm, Pavel Tsar, Zihao Wang, Tyler Watts, Nick Werner, Charlie Woods, Drew Woolworth, Kaichen Xia, Jason Yu, Alex Zhang.
Played in 2023 U.S. Junior Amateur (20): Jackson Byrd, Xihuan Chang, Luke Colton, Nicholas Gross, Henry Guan, Will Hartman, Zenghao Hou, Mason Howell, Po-Cheng Hsu, Cole Kim, Rayhan Abdul Latief, Michael Mikus Vasquez, Shiv Parmar, Logan Reilly, Tyler Sanford, Arrow Aarav Shah, Brooks Simmons, Tyler Watts, Eric Zhao, Darren Zhou.
Played in 2024 U.S. Amateur (13): Carson Bertagnole, Xihuan Chang, Luke Colton, Tyler Gutshewski, Henry Guan, Nguyen Anh Minh, Logan Reilly, Michael Riebe, Reese Roberts, Miles Russell, Jaden Soong, Sohan Patel, Tyler Watts.
Played in 2025 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball (5): Edan Cui, Ben Friedman, Will Hartman (winner), Mason Howell, Tyler Mawhinney (winner).
Competed in 2025 U.S. Open Final Qualifying (12): Harper Ackerman, Trace Carter, Luke Colton, Drake Harvey, Mason Howell (competed at Oakmont), Tyler Mawhinney, Sohan Patel, Logan Reilly, Miles Russell (first alternate from site), Parker Severs, Arth Sinha, Tyler Watts.
Competed in 2025 U.S. Open (2): Mason Howell (MC), Trevor Gutschewski (MC)
Here are the players who have signed in the Class of 2025. Not included in this list is any golfer verbally committed for Class of 2026 or 2027:
Players who have competed in one season of college golf and still age-eligible:
Jackson Byrd, 18, of St. Simons Island, Ga., a 2025 Clemson University signee, is the son of 5-time PGA Tour winner Jonathan Byrd. Jonathan was the PGA Tour’s Rookie of the Year in 2002 and competed on the 1999 USA Walker Cup Team. This is Jackson’s second U.S. Junior Amateur. Some of Byrd’s accomplishments include winning The Ping Invitational in 2024 and being the runner-up at the 2025 Junior Invitational at Sage Valley.
Luke Colton,18, of Frisco, Texas, is set for his fifth USGA championship. He made it to the Round of 32 in the 2023 U.S. Junior Amateur and the Round 16 in the 2024 U.S. Junior Amateur. Colton also played in both the 2023 and 2024 U.S. Amateur Championships. He won the Terra Cotta Invitational in 2024 at Naples National Golf Club and successfully defended his title this past April. In 2024 he won the Byron Nelson Junior Tournament and was runner-up in the Rolex Tournament of Champions as well as the Texas State Amateur. That same year he made it to the Round of 16 in the North & South Amateur at Pinehurst and represented the United States in the 2024 Junior Presidents Cup. The Vanderbilt commit for the Class of 2026 won the 2024 and 2025 Texas 5A high school state championship. Colton was named to the U.S. National Junior Team earlier this year and helped his team defeat Team Canada, 16-8, in a three-day, Ryder Cup style competition at Champions Golf Club in Houston in April. Colton is right-handed but plays golf left-handed.
Tyler Creavy, 15, of Orlando, Fla., will make his debut in the U.S. Junior Amateur after firing a 67 to take home medalist honors at the South Hadley, Mass., qualifying site. Creavy secured his first Futures Junior Tour (FJT) victory at Marsh Landing Country Club in February, clinching the win with a birdie on the first playoff hole. He has several top finishes this year, including a tie for second at the FJT Candler Hills Open in February and a T-6 at the FJT Eagle Ridge Open in April. In 2024, Creavy claimed the Bay Hill Junior Club Championship at Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club & Lodge. Tyler is the son of Leigh Anne Hardin Creavy, the 1998 U.S. Girls’ Junior Champion at Merion and a past Curtis Cup player. Her husband, Tom Creavy, comes from strong golf lineage. He is a golf professional who has worked with the likes of U.S. Women’s Open champion Se Ri Pak and Beatriz Recardi. His great uncle, Thomas Creavy, won the 1931 PGA Championship.
Samuel Duran, 18, of Panama, a 2025 Clemson University signee, is the grandson of legendary boxer Roberto Duran. Roberto held world championship belts in four different weight classes: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight. He is the second boxer to have competed over five decades (Jack Johnson). In 2002, The Ring magazine voted Duran as the fifth greatest fighter of the last 80 years. In 119 fights, Duran posted 70 knockouts.
Mason Eaton, 17, of Hastings Minn., fired a 67 at Emerald Greens Golf Club to qualify for his first U.S. Junior Amateur. Eaton is a rising senior at Rosemount High School and is co-captain of the boys' golf team. His high school teammate Joey Mackinac also qualified for the Junior at the same site. Eaton posted a tie for fourth while competing on the Players Tour at Stillwater Country Club this past June. Last year, Eaton finished T-11 in the Minnesota Boys Junior PGA Championship. Mason is the son of 2004 U.S. Mid-Amateur Champion, Austin Eaton III. Austin made the semifinals of the 2005 U.S. Amateur at Merion and remains the last mid-amateur to go that far in the championship.
Mykhalio Golod,18, of Ukraine, logged a 69 at the Quixote Club in Sumter, S.C., and survived a 7-man playoff to qualify for his second U.S. Junior Amateur. Mykhalio moved to the states in 2022 to get away from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. He just completed his freshman season at University of North Carolina and is a four-time Ukrainian Junior champion. At 14, he became the first Ukrainian to compete in the U.S. Junior Amateur at The Country Club of North Carolina in 2021. Some of Golod’s accomplishments include winning the 2022 Sunshine State Amateur, 2022 and 2023 Notah Begay Junior Golf National Championships and a runner-up finish in the 2025 North Carolina Amateur.
Trevor Gutschewski, 18, of Omaha, Neb., an incoming freshman at the University of Florida, won the 2024 U.S. Junior Amateur after defeating medalist Blades Brown in the Round of 32 and Tyler Watts in the 36-hole final at Oakland Hills Country Club (South Course). The victory punched his ticket for the U.S. Open in Oakmont where he failed to make the cut. This past June, Gutschewski claimed the Western Junior Championship at The Harvester Club, in Rhodes, Iowa. His father, Scott, owns three Korn Ferry Tour victories and splits time between that circuit and the PGA Tour. Gutschewski, his father, and older brother, Luke (Iowa State), all teed it up together in the Korn Ferry Tour's Pinnacle Bank Championship, the first time in 20 years that a father and two sons were in the same event under the PGA Tour umbrella. Gutschewski was named to the U.S. National Junior Team earlier this year and helped his side defeat Team Canada, 16-8, in a three-day, Ryder Cup style competition at Champions Golf Club, in Houston in April. This will be his fourth USGA championship.
Will Hartman, 18, of Charlotte, N.C., secured an exemption into the championship by claiming the 2025 U.S. Four-Ball Championship title with partner Tyler Mawhinney at Plainfield Country Club, in New Jersey in May. The duo defeated reigning U.S. Mid-Amateur champion Evan Beck and Dan Walters, 3 and 1, in the 18-hole final. With the victory, Hartman and Mawhinney cemented their names in history as the first male players from the U.S. National Development Program to claim a USGA championship. Hartman was a part of the inaugural National Junior Team and helped defeat Team Canada, 16-8, in a three-day Ryder Cup style competition at Champions Golf Club in Houston this past April. The Vanderbilt signee reached the semifinals of the 2023 U.S. Junior Amateur and returned to compete again in 2024. He has twice tied for fourth this year: the AJGA Simplify Boys Championship at Carlton Woods and Dustin Johnson World Junior Championship. He was a member of the 2023 U.S. Junior Ryder Cup Team and tied for fifth in the Boy’s Junior PGA Championship that same year.
Cameron Kuchar, 17, of Jupiter, Fla., is set to make his first start in a USGA championship. Kuchar carded a 68 at Ridgecrest Golf Club, in Nampa, Idaho, to earn his way into the field. This past June, the Texas Christian University commit had a runner up finish at the Western Junior championship and tied for fifth at the RLX Ralph Lauren Junior Classic. His father, Matt, is a nine-time PGA Tour winner and Olympic medalist who turned pro in 2000. Kuchar won the U.S. Amateur in 1997 at Cog Hill Golf & Country Club, in Lemont, Ill., defeating Joel Kribel, 2 and 1. He also was the low amateur in the 1998 U.S. Open and a past Walker Cup competitor. The father-son duo teed it up at the 2020, 2021, and 2023 PNC Championships.
Drew Madigan, 16, of Collierville, Tenn., was a nationally ranked swimmer until COVID-19 shut down all of the pools. Needing an activity to stay competitive, he turned to golf and became extremely passionate about the game. Madigan carded a 68 in qualifying to earn a spot in this year's field.
Tyler Mawhinney, 17, of Flemming Island Fla., secured an exemption into the championship by claiming the 2025 U.S. Four-Ball Championship title with partner Will Hartman at Plainfield Country Club in New Jersey. The duo defeated reigning U.S. Mid-Amateur champion Evan Beck and Dan Walters, 3 and 1, in the 18-hole final. With the victory, Mawhinney and Hartman became the first male players from the U.S. National Development Program to claim a USGA championship. Mawhinney won the 2023 American Junior Golf Association Rolex Tournament of Champions and that same year was the Florida Class 3A boys individual state champion. His victory at the 2024 Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship earned him a spot in the 2025 RBC Canadian Open, where he made his PGA Tour debut and finished T-65. His Canadian Amateur win also secured an exemption into the 2024 U.S. Amateur where he reached the Round of 16, losing to University of Illinois standout Jackson Buchanan. Mawhinney, who plans to attend Vanderbilt University in 2026, is making his U.S. Junior Amateur debut.
Daniil Sokolov, 14, of Qatar, earned his spot in the field by carding a 68 at Palm Valley Golf Club in Nevada. One of the youngest players in the championship, Sokolov also will make history as the first golfer from Qatar to compete in a USGA event. Born in the Republic of Korea to Russian parents, he moved to Qatar at the age of 5. Earlier this year, he competed in the Qatar Masters on the DP World Tour for a second time, though he missed the cut in both appearances. Among his top accomplishments are victories at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club Open in April and the Jordan Junior Open in May 2024. Sokolov also earned bronze medals at the 2024 Arab Junior Golf Championship in Tunisia and represented Team Qatar at the 2024 Pan Arab Men’s Golf Championship in Ajman.
Reese Roberts,18, of Dallas Texas, fired a 68 at the Dornick Hills Golf & Country Club, in Ardrmore, Okla., to qualify for his first U.S. Junior Amateur. Last year, Roberts won the Texas Amateur Championship at Trinity Forest Golf Club, the host site of this year’s U.S. Junior Amateur, which earned him a spot in the 2024 U.S. Amateur. That same year he captured his first AJGA title by winning the Under Armour / Jordan Spieth Championship. The University of Missouri signee just graduated from the Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas, the same high school where 13-time PGA Tour winner and three-time major champion Jordan Spieth attended. Spieth also is one of two players (Tiger Woods) to have won multiple U.S. Junior Amateur titles. In April, the Jesuit Dallas golf team just secured their 12th district championship in program history; Roberts claimed the individual district title.
Miles Russell, 16, of Jacksonville Beach, Fla., will make his third start in the championship after reaching match play in 2022 and the quarterfinals last year. The left-hander also competed in the 2024 U.S. Amateur. Russell just recently committed to attend Florida State University in the fall of 2026. He has already claimed two major titles this year: the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley and the Simplify Boys Championship at Carlton Woods. Last year, he became the youngest golfer to make the cut on the Korn Ferry Tour, finishing tied for 20th at the LECOM Suncoast Classic in Florida and made his first PGA Tour start at the Rocket Classic. In 2023, Russell won both the Junior Players Championship and the Boy’s Junior PGA Championship. That same year he surpassed Tiger Woods as the youngest winner of the AJGA Rolex Boys Player of the Year award. Russell was a member of the inaugural U.S. National Junior Team in 2024 (not on 2025 team) and is a two-time Drive, Chip & Putt national finalist.
Tyler Watts, 17, of Huntsville, Ala., will make his third start in the championship after making it to the Round of 32 in 2023 and the championship match against Tyler Gutschewski last year. The University of Tennessee commit for the Class of 2026signee made history by winning the 84th Sunnehanna Amateur in June, shooting 18-under par, the lowest 72-hole score in the history of the event. Last month, Watts lost in the title match of the North & South Amateur at Pinehurst. In 2023, the left hander claimed the 107th Alabama State Amateur Championship title, setting the record as the youngest player in history to win at age 15. That same year, he won the Jones Cup Junior Invitational at Sea Island (Ga.) Golf Club. In 2024, Watts represented the U.S. in the 2024 Junior Presidents Cup in Canada and played in the 2024 U.S. Amateur. Watts is a part of the U.S. National Junior Team.
Nick Werner, 18, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., a 2025 Penn State signee, played 100 holes of golf in one day in 2023 to raise money for Alzheimer’s Disease. He played the 100 holes at Huntsville Golf Club to honor his grandfather, who was diagnosed with the disease. Werner raised more than $8,500, according to the American Junior Golf Association website. More than 6.7 million people are afflicted with Alzheimer’s. Werner fired a 69 at the Corning, N.Y. site to earn his way into the field.
Charlie Woods, 16, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., qualified at the Coral Springs, Fla., site in a playoff to earn a second consecutive U.S. Junior Amateur start. Following a playoff against Oscar Crowe and Matthew Marigliano, Woods came out on top at Eagle Trace Golf Club. Woods is a rising junior at The Benjamin School, where the boys team captured its fourth state championship title in school history in November of 2023. In May, he won the TaylorMade Invitational at Streamsong Resort’s Black Course in Florida with a 15-under total of 201. Charlie is the son of nine-time USGA champion and 15-time major champion Tiger Woods, who won three consecutive U.S. Junior Amateur titles from 1991-93. The two have played together in the last four PNC Championships, finishing runner-up in 2021 and 2024.
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