U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship
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The United States Junior Amateur Championship is one of the thirteen U.S. national golf championships organized by the United States Golf Association. It is open to amateur boys who are under 18 on the last day of the competition and have a USGA Handicap Index of 6.4 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 enties. In 1999, the tournament set a record with 4,508 entries.
Tiger Woods, who won the tournament in 1991, 1992, and 1993, is the only player to have won the Junior Amateur more than once. Woods, who was 15 years and 220 days old when he won in 1991, remains the youngest champion, although the 2004 champion Sihwan Kim was only 22 days older, and his defeated final opponent David Chung was just fourteen and six months. The number of winners who have gone on to become leading professionals is quite modest. This reflects not only the young age of the competitors, but the more random results of match play tournaments compared to stroke play events. Apart from Woods, well known winners include Johnny Miller (1964) and David Duval (1989). Jack Nicklaus's best result was a semifinal loss.
The equivalent competition for girls is the United States Girls' Junior Championship.
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[edit] Winners
| Year | Winner | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Cory Whitsett |  United States |
| 2006 | Philip Francis | United States |
| 2005 | Kevin Tway | United States |
| 2004 | Sihwan Kim |  South Korea [1] |
| 2003 | Brian Harman | United States |
| 2002 | Charlie Beljan | United States |
| 2001 | Henry Liaw | United States |
| 2000 | Matthew Rosenfeld | United States |
| 1999 | Hunter Mahan | United States |
| 1998 | James Oh | United States |
| 1997 | Jason Allred | United States |
| 1996 | Shane McMenamy | United States |
| 1995 | D. Scott Hailes | United States |
| 1994 | Terry Noe | South Korea |
| 1993 | Tiger Woods | United States |
| 1992 | Tiger Woods | United States |
| 1991 | Tiger Woods | United States |
| 1990 | Matthew Todd | United States |
| 1989 | David Duval | United States |
| 1988 | Jason Widener | United States |
| 1987 | Brett Quigley | United States |
| 1986 | Brian Montgomery | United States |
| 1985 | Charles Rymer | United States |
| 1984 | Doug Martin | United States |
| 1983 | Tim Straub | United States |
| 1982 | Rick Marik | United States |
| 1981 | Scott Erickson | United States |
| 1980 | Eric Johnson | United States |
| 1979 | Jack Larkin | United States |
| 1978 | Donald Hurter | United States |
| 1977 | Willie Wood | United States |
| 1976 | Madden Hatcher III | United States |
| 1975 | Brett Mullin | United States |
| 1974 | David Nevatt | United States |
| 1973 | Jack Renner | United States |
| 1972 | Robert T. Byman | United States |
| 1971 | Mike Brannan | United States |
| 1970 | Gary Koch | United States |
| 1969 | Aly Trompas | United States |
| 1968 | Eddie Pearce | United States |
| 1967 | John T. Crooks | United States |
| 1966 | Gary Sanders | United States |
| 1965 | James Masserio | United States |
| 1964 | Johnny Miller | United States |
| 1963 | Gregg McHatton | United States |
| 1962 | James L. Wiechers | United States |
| 1961 | Charles S. McDowell | United States |
| 1960 | William L. Tindall | United States |
| 1959 | Larry J. Lee | United States |
| 1958 | Gordon Baker | United States |
| 1957 | Larry Beck | United States |
| 1956 | Harlan Stevenson | United States |
| 1955 | Billy J. "Cotton" Dunn | United States |
| 1954 | Foster Bradley ,Jr. | United States |
| 1953 | Rex Baxter | United States |
| 1952 | Donald M. Bisplinghoff | United States |
| 1951 | K. Thomas Jacobs, Jr. | United States |
| 1950 | Mason Rudolph | United States |
| 1949 | Gay Brewer | United States |
| 1948 | Dean Lind | United States |
[edit] Multiple winners
- 3 wins: Tiger Woods
[edit] Notes
- ^ Shin was born in South Korea and moved to California with his family in October 2000. His citizenship at the time of winning the Championship is unknown. The USGA lists him as "of Fullerton, California".
