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The event was founded by Nan Ryan in 1973 after a statement she'd heard while on a Quincy golf course, the statement was "It's a shame the midwest doesn't have a junior tournament like the International in Florida". However 33 years later the tournament in Quincy became ranked as the third most widely attended junior golf event in the world.
The charity began as a simple junior golf clinic where Woods introduced the basics of the game to inner-city kids. But everything changed in 2001, right after the events of September 11. Woods began to envision his foundation as a hub for STEM education for kids from underprivileged communities. [1]
The 2025 PGA Tour Champions season is the 45th season of PGA Tour Champions (formerly the Senior PGA Tour and the Champions Tour), the main professional golf tour in the United States for men aged 50 and over.
Bentley soon realized the need for organized golf at the national level. At the time, several national junior golf tournaments existed but there was no cohesive administration of junior golf events on a national scale. Bentley envisioned such an organization, and created the American Junior Golf Association to meet the need.
The Atlanta Junior Golf Association is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. It was established in 1974 as the Dekalb Junior Golf Association with less than 100 members and conducted approximately one dozen events. Today it boasts over 1150 members annually and, for the first time in history, hosted 100 tournaments in 2007.
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.