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The tournament is the flagship tournament of the American Junior Golf Association. The field is made up of the top boys and girls on the AJGA Rankings, AJGA Junior All-Americans, award recipients, plus select invitees. [2] The 44th edition in 2001 featured 144 of the best junior golfers in the world from 14 different countries. [3]
Junior golf refers to the game of golf being played by boys and girls who have not finished secondary school or reached the age of 19, whichever comes first. [ 1 ] More specifically, any person falling under the above definition who has played at least one round of golf in a given year is a junior golfer.
The Junior Players Championship is a leading annual junior golf tournament in the United States for male amateur golfers under the age of 19. [ 1 ] The tournament has been played since 2007 and is organized by the American Junior Golf Association .
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.
This category contains articles about United States golf championships organized by the American Junior Golf Association. Pages in category "American Junior Golf Association championships" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
However, European golf has largely opted out of participation; of around 30 countries that hold qualifying events, The British Junior Golf Tour in UK offer qualifying events in Europe. In 2005 the top tens of the 15–17 boys' and girls' tournaments featured golfers from ten different countries between them.
The Junior Open Championship is a biennial event, to which all golfing nations affiliated to The R&A are invited to enter their best under-16 boy and girl golfers. In 2016, 80 countries were represented in the starting field of 143 competitors [ 1 ] contrasting with 2002 when a total of 86 boys and girls from 58 countries took part. [ 2 ]
The teams consist of 12 junior boys. Participants must be at least 12 years old at the start of the event and must be 18 or younger and have not yet graduated high school as of January 1 of the year of the contest. Players must be amateurs who have not yet started college and are not members of a competitive collegiate golf program.