71st U.S. JUNIOR AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP – FACT SHEET

July 16-21, 2018 Baltusrol Club (Upper Course), Springfield, N.J. Stroke-Play Co-Host Course: (Lower Course), Springfield, N.J. mediacenter.usga.org | usga.org/junioram | #USJuniorAm @usga_pr (media Twitter) | @usga (Twitter and Instagram | USGA (Facebook)

PAR AND YARDAGE Baltusrol Golf Club’s Upper Course will be set up at 7,280 yards and will play to a of 35-36–71. Baltusrol Golf Club’s Lower Course will be set up at 7,313 yards and will play to a par of 34-36-70.

BALTUSROL GOLF CLUB (UPPER COURSE) HOLE BY HOLE Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total Par 4 4 3 4 4 4 3 5 4 35 Yards 487 460 223 443 449 433 250 544 350 3,639

Hole 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Total Par 3 5 4 4 4 3 4 5 4 36 Yards 150 616 358 424 395 174 443 594 487 3,641

BALTUSROL GOLF CLUB (LOWER COURSE) HOLE BY HOLE Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total Par 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 4 3 34 Yards 473 375 502 190 413 480 495 382 204 3,514

Hole 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Total Par 4 4 3 4 4 4 3 5 5 36 Yards 440 425 210 422 426 452 225 649 550 3,799

ARCHITECT Golf has been played over the grounds at Baltusrol since 1895, when club founder placed the “Old Course” on land that had been farmed by a Scottish immigrant named Baltus Roll 50 years earlier. A.W. Tillinghast designed the present-day Upper and Lower courses, which opened in 1922 as Tillinghast’s unprecedented initiative to build two courses side by side at the same time. The architect’s designs have remained intact, but have been lengthened and updated for modern play. Robert Trent Jones made renovations to the Lower Course in the 1950s, while his son, , renovated the Upper Course in the 1990s.

COURSE RATING AND SLOPE Based on the course setup for the championship, the USGA Course Rating™ for Baltusrol Golf Club (Upper Course) is 75.3 and its Slope Rating® is 147. The Course Rating for Baltusrol Golf Club (Lower Course) is 75.7 and its Slope Rating is 148.

WHO CAN ENTER The championship is open to any amateur golfer who will not have reached their 19th birthday on or before July 21, and who has a Index® not exceeding 4.4. The entry deadline was Wednesday, June 6.

ENTRIES The USGA accepted 3,693 entries for the 2018 U.S. Junior Amateur. The record number of entries is 4,508 in 1999.

SECTIONAL QUALIFYING Sectional qualifying, played over 18 holes, was conducted from June 11-29. Qualifying was held at 58 sites in 40 states. California had the most qualifying sites with six, while Florida and four and three, respectively.

CHAMPIONSHIP FIELD A starting field of 156 golfers will compete in the U.S. Junior Amateur. Practice rounds will be held on July 14-15. The championship begins with 18-hole stroke-play rounds on July 16 and 17. The field will then be cut to the low 64 scorers for . Six rounds of match play will determine the champion. The championship match is contested over 36 holes.

SCHEDULE OF PLAY Monday, July 16 – First round, (Upper & Lower Courses) Tuesday, July 17 – Second round, stroke play (Upper & Lower Courses) Wednesday, July 18 – First round, match play (Upper Course) Thursday, July 19 – Second and third rounds, match play (Upper Course) Friday, July 20 – Quarterfinal and semifinal rounds, match play (Upper Course) Saturday, July 21 – Championship match (36 holes, Upper Course)

2017 CHAMPION Noah Goodwin, 17, of Corinth, Texas, produced the second-biggest comeback in championship match history, rallying from four holes down with eight to play to defeat Matthew Wolff, 18, of Agoura Hills, Calif., 1 up, to win the 70th U.S. Junior Amateur Championship at Flint Hills National Golf Club. The only larger comeback occurred two years earlier when Phillip Barbaree defeated Andrew Orischak in 37 holes at Colleton River Plantation Club after trailing by five holes with eight to play. Andy Hyeon Bo Shim, in 2012 at The Golf Club of New , also rallied from 5 down at the start of the afternoon 18 in upending 2010 champion Jim Liu, 4 and 3. The USGA lengthened the U.S. Junior Amateur final from 18 holes to 36 in 2005. Goodwin, who lost to Min Woo Lee, of , 2 and 1, in the 2016 final, joined Mason Rudolph (1950) and Tim Straub (1983) as the only other golfers to win a U.S. Junior Amateur a year after losing in the championship match.

WHAT THE WINNER RECEIVES: A gold medal and custody of the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship Trophy for one year An exemption for all future U.S. Junior Amateurs (if eligible) An exemption from qualifying for the next two U.S. Amateurs An exemption qualifying for the 2019 U.S. Open (must be an amateur)

ADMISSION Admission to the 2018 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship is free and the public is encouraged to attend.

HISTORY In 1948, the USGA inaugurated the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship to determine the best junior golfer in the and to help junior golfers realize the most from the game, win or lose. The first U.S. Junior Amateur was played at the University of Michigan and received 495 entries.

Dean Lind, of Rockford, Ill., was the first champion. Lind defeated , of San Francisco, a future U.S. Open champion, in the final. Only two players, and , have won the Junior Amateur more than once; Woods winning in 1991, 1992 and 1993, and Spieth in 2009 and 2011.

In 2017, the U.S. Junior Amateur champion began receiving a full exemption into the following year’s U.S. Open Championship.

CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY This large sterling silver trophy, produced by J.E. Caldwell and Co., of Philadelphia, is a replica of a bowl produced by noted early American silversmith Samuel Williamson, which is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Dean Lind was the first to receive the trophy after his 1948 victory at the University of Michigan Golf Course, in Ann Arbor, Mich.

The original U.S. Junior Amateur Trophy is on display at the USGA Golf Museum in Far Hills, N.J.

USGA AND BALTUSROL GOLF CLUB This is the 16th USGA championship to be conducted at Baltusrol Golf Club and the first U.S. Junior Amateur. The club has hosted seven U.S. Opens, two U.S. Women’s Opens, four U.S. Amateurs and two U.S. Women’s Amateurs. The last USGA championship conducted at the club was the 2000 U.S. Amateur when defeated in 39 holes on the Upper Course.

Willie Anderson won the second of his four U.S. Open titles in 1903 on Baltusrol’s Original Course, while captured two of his four U.S. Opens in 1967 and 1980 on the Lower Course. , a two-time U.S. Open champion, won the last Open played at the club in 1993.

USGA CHAMPIONSHIPS AT BALTUSROL 1901 U.S. Women’s Amateur (Original Course): Genevieve Hecker def. Lucy Herron, 5 and 3 1903 U.S. Open (Original Course): def. David Brown (307-82, 307-84) 1904 U.S. Amateur (Original Course): H. def. , 8 and 6 1911 U.S. Women’s Amateur (Original Course): Margaret Curtis def. Lillian B. Hyde, 5 and 3 1915 U.S. Open (Revised Course): a-Jerome D. Travers by one stroke over Tom McNamara (297-298) 1926 U.S. Amateur (Lower Course): def. Robert T. Jones Jr., 2 and 1 1936 U.S. Open (Upper Course): by two strokes over (282-284) 1946 U.S. Amateur (Lower Course): Stanley E. “Ted” Bishop def. Smiley L. Quick, 37 holes 1954 U.S. Open (Lower Course): by one stroke over (284-285) 1961 U.S. Women’s Open (Lower Course): by six strokes over Betsy Rawls (293-299) 1967 U.S. Open (Lower Course): Jack Nicklaus by four strokes over (275-279) 1980 U.S. Open (Lower Course): Jack Nicklaus by two strokes over Isao Aoki (272-274) 1985 U.S. Women’s Open (Upper Course): Kathy (Baker) Guadagnino by three strokes over Judy Clark (280-283) 1993 U.S. Open (Lower Course): Lee Janzen by two strokes over (272-274) 2000 U.S. Amateur (Upper Course): Jeff Quinney def. James Driscoll, 39 holes

USGA CHAMPIONSHIPS IN This will be the 62nd USGA championship and third U.S. Junior Amateur contested in New Jersey. The last Junior Amateur held in the Garden State was in 2009 when Jordan Spieth won the first of his two Junior Amateur titles at Trump National Golf Club.

U.S. JUNIOR AMATEURS IN NEW JERSEY Year, Course and Results 1994: Echo Lake C.C., Westfield (Terry Noe def. Andy Barnes, 2 up) 2009: Trump National G.C. (Old and New Courses), Bedminster (Jordan Spieth def. Jay Hwang, 4 and 3)

OTHER EVENTS AT BALTUSROL GOLF CLUB Year, Event and Results 2005 PGA Championship: won by one stroke over Thomas Bjorn, (276-277) 2016 PGA Championship: won by one stroke over (266-267)

MOST USGA CHAMPIONSHIPS HOSTED BY A CLUB 18 Merion G.C., Ardmore, Pa. 16 , Brookline, Mass. 16 Oakmont (Pa.) C.C. 15 Baltusrol G.C., Springfield, N.J. 12 Winged Foot G.C., Mamaroneck, N.Y. 11 Chicago G.C., Wheaton, Ill. 11 Oakland Hills C.C., Bloomfield Hills, Mich. 11 Pebble Beach (Calif.) G.L. 10 The , San Francisco, Calif.

WINNERS OF U.S. OPEN & U.S. JUNIOR AMATEUR Winners, Years of Championships (1973 Open; 1964 Junior Amateur) Tiger Woods (2000, 2002, 2008 Open; 1991, 1992, 1993 Junior Amateur) Jordan Spieth (2015 Open; 2009, 2011 Junior Amateur)

LONGEST COURSES IN U.S. JUNIOR AMATEUR HISTORY 7,740 yards, Martis Camp Club, Truckee, Calif., 2013

7,366 yards, Colleton River Plantation Club (Dye Course), Bluffton, S.C., 2015 7,326 yards, The Honors Course, Ooltewah, Tenn., 2016 7,275 yards, The Club at Carlton Woods (Nicklaus Course), The Woodlands, Texas, 2014 7,251 yards, Shoal Creek (Ala.) Golf & Country Club, 2008 7,175 yards, Golf Club of New England, Stratham, N.H., 2012 7,133 yards, Gold Mountain Golf Club (Olympic Course), Bremerton, Wash., 2011

TELEVISION SCHEDULE The 2018 U.S. Junior Amateur will receive at least five hours of live network coverage. FS1 will air semifinal matches on Friday. Coverage of Saturday’s championship match will begin at 1 p.m. EDT. Beginning in 2018, Rolex will be the exclusive presenting partner of coverage for eight USGA championships, including the U.S. Junior Amateur. Rolex’s commitment will allow an uninterrupted broadcast of these championships, providing fans hours of continuous live action.

Date Network Broadcast Hours (Local/EDT) July 20 FS1 Semifinal matches, 2-4 p.m. July 21 FS1 Championship match, 1-4 p.m.

CELEBRATION OF CHAMPIONS The USGA’s Celebration of Champions is a four-hole public exhibition honoring the winners of the previous year’s USGA championships and celebrating their distinguished achievements in the game of golf. The exhibition paired 2017 champions as two-player mixed teams, and was held on June 12, during the week of the 118th U.S. Open Championship at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, N.Y.

EXEMPT PLAYERS: There are 26 players who were fully exempt from sectional qualifying for the 2018 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship. Rayhan Thomas, a 2017 semifinalist, is among those exempted. The players currently exempt are:

Garrett Barber (WAGR Top 400) Jake Beber-Frankel (WAGR Top 400) Akshay Bhatia (WAGR Top 400) Fred Biondi (WAGR Top 400) Ricky Castillo (WAGR Top 400) Canon Claycomb (WAGR Top 400) Cole Hammer (WAGR Top 400) Joe Highsmith (WAGR Top 400) Eugene Hong (2016 Junior Amateur semifinalist, WAGR Top 400) Kaiwen Liu (WAGR Top 400) Sean Maruyama (WAGR Top 400) Jediah Morgan (WAGR Top 400) William Mouw (WAGR Top 400) Joseph Pagdin (WAGR Top 400) Julian Perico (WAGR Top 400) Trent Phillips (WAGR Top 400) Cole Ponich (WAGR Top 400) Ryan Smith (2017 Junior Amateur quarterfinalist, WAGR Top 400) James Song (WAGR Top 400) Jackson Suber (WAGR Top 400) Rayhan Thomas (2017 Junior Amateur semifinalist) Michael Thorbjornsen (WAGR Top 400) Travis Vick (WAGR Top 400) Karl Vilips (WAGR Top 400) Robin Williams (WAGR Top 400) Shuai Ming Wong (WAGR Top 400)

TYING THE RECORD Shuai Ming Wong, of Hong Kong China, will tie the U.S. Junior Amateur record for most times played in the championship when he makes his fifth appearance. Wong, whose nickname is Ben, will become the eighth player to accomplish the feat. The list includes Jack Nicklaus, who won two of his four U.S. Opens at Baltusrol Golf Club and played in five Junior Amateurs from 1953-57.

Most Times Played in U.S. Junior Amateur – 5, John Konsek (1953-57), Jack Nicklaus (1953-57), Robert Kirouac (1956-50), Travis Whisman (1995-99), James Vargas (1997-2001), Jim Liu (2009-13), Will Zalatoris (2009-12, 2014) and Shuai Ming Wong (2013-18).

IN DEFENSE Noah Goodwin chose not to enter this year’s U.S. Junior Amateur even though he was still eligible as an 18-year- old. Min Woo Lee was the last champion who attempted to defend his title. Lee, who won the 2016 championship at The Honors Course, reached the Round of 64 last year at Flint Hills National Golf Club. Jim Liu, the 2010 champion, advanced to the Round of 32 in 2011. Jordan Spieth reached the Round of 32 in 2010 after winning the 2009 championship. Tiger Woods successfully defended his U.S. Junior Amateur title twice during his run of three consecutive titles from 1991-93.

Junior Amateur Champions Who Defended (since 1990) Year Champion Result in Defense 2016 Min Woo Lee Round of 64 in 2017 2010 Jim Liu Round of 32 in 2011 2009 Jordan Spieth Round of 32 in 2010 2007 Cory Whitsett Round of 64 in 2008 2005 Kevin Tway Semifinals in 2006 2004 Sihwan Kim Round of 16 in 2005 2003 Brian Harman Quarterfinals in 2004 2001 Henry Liaw Round of 16 in 2002 2000 Matthew Rosenfeld Round of 16 in 2001 1998 James Oh Quarterfinals in 1999 1996 Shane McMenamy Failed to qualify for match play in 1997 1992 Tiger Woods Won in 1993 1991 Tiger Woods Won in 1992

FUTURE U.S. JUNIOR AMATEURS July 15-20, 2019: , Toledo, Ohio July 20-25, 2020: Hazeltine National Golf Club and Chaska Town Course, Chaska, Minn.

PHOTO MEDIA SERVICE The USGA will offer daily complimentary high-resolution photographs during the U.S. Junior Amateur (Monday- Saturday) for news use only. For more information and to register, contact [email protected].

IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS USGA Communications Department – 908-234-2300 Brian DePasquale (cell) – 908-655-8395

MEDIA OPERATIONS/SERVICE Please contact Brian DePasquale for more information regarding your U.S. Junior Amateur coverage plans. His contact information is:

Brian DePasquale: [email protected], (O) 908-326-1884, (C) 908-655-8395

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