71St U.S. JUNIOR AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP – FACT SHEET
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71st U.S. JUNIOR AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP – FACT SHEET July 16-21, 2018 Baltusrol Golf Club (Upper Course), Springfield, N.J. Stroke-Play Co-Host Course: Baltusrol Golf Club (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 par 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 Louis Keller 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, Rees Jones, 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 Handicap 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 Texas 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 match play. 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, stroke play (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 England, 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 Australia, 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 United States 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 Golf Course and received 495 entries. Dean Lind, of Rockford, Ill., was the first champion. Lind defeated Ken Venturi, of San Francisco, a future U.S. Open champion, in the final. Only two players, Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth, 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 Jeff Quinney defeated James Driscoll 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 Jack Nicklaus captured two of his four U.S. Opens in 1967 and 1980 on the Lower Course. Lee Janzen, 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): Willie Anderson def. David Brown (307-82, 307-84) 1904 U.S. Amateur (Original Course): H. Chandler Egan def. Fred Herreshoff, 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): George Von Elm def. Robert T. Jones Jr., 2 and 1 1936 U.S. Open (Upper Course): Tony Manero by two strokes over Harry Cooper (282-284) 1946 U.S. Amateur (Lower Course): Stanley E. “Ted” Bishop def. Smiley L. Quick, 37 holes 1954 U.S. Open (Lower Course): Ed Furgol by one stroke over Gene Littler (284-285) 1961 U.S. Women’s Open (Lower Course): Mickey Wright by six strokes over Betsy Rawls (293-299) 1967 U.S. Open (Lower Course): Jack Nicklaus by four strokes over Arnold Palmer (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 Payne Stewart (272-274) 2000 U.S. Amateur (Upper Course): Jeff Quinney def. James Driscoll, 39 holes USGA CHAMPIONSHIPS IN NEW JERSEY 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: Phil Mickelson won by one stroke over Thomas Bjorn, Steve Elkington (276-277) 2016 PGA Championship: Jimmy Walker won by one stroke over Jason Day (266-267) MOST USGA CHAMPIONSHIPS HOSTED BY A CLUB 18 Merion G.C., Ardmore, Pa.