US Junior Amateur Championship Country Club of North Carolina Nick Dunlap usga

Description

The
United States Junior Amateur Championship
is one of the fourteen
U.S.
national golf championships organized by the
United States Golf Association
. It is open to amateur boys who are under 19 on the last day of the competition and have a USGA
Handicap
Index of 4.4 or less. The competition was established in 1948. It consists of two days of
stroke play
, with the leading 64 competitors then playing a
match play
competition to decide the champion.
The first tournament in 1948 was won by Dean Lind from a field of 495 entries. In 1999, the tournament set a record with 4,508 entries. Only two players have won the championship multiple times:
Tiger Woods
won the tournament for three consecutive years beginning in 1991;
Jordan Spieth
won in 2009 and 2011.
[1]
In 2010,
Jim Liu
, at 14 years, 11 months, became the youngest champion ever, breaking Woods' mark of 15 years and 220 days.
[2]
The number of winners who have gone on to become PGA pros is considerable. Apart from Woods, well known winners include
Johnny Miller
(1964),
David Duval
(1989),
Hunter Mahan
(1999) and
Jordan Spieth
(2009 and 2011).
Jack Nicklaus's
best result was a semifinal loss.