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USA Today
09-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Charlie Woods, Miles Russell headline invites for the Junior Players Championship
Miles Russell, a Jacksonville Beach resident and the American Junior Golf Association's top-ranked player, and Charlie Woods have officially earned invitations to the Junior Players Championship Aug. 28-31 at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. Russell won the Junior Players in 2023 and has gone on to earn AJGA Player of the Year, won the AJGA Tournament of Champions, the Junior PGA and the Sage Valley Invitational. He is competing in his third PGA Tour event this week at the ISCO Championship in Louisville, Kentucky. Russell, 16, verbally committed to play golf at Florida State beginning in the fall of 2027. The top 58 on the AJGA Rolex Rankings as of July 8 who are age-eligible earned an invitation to the Junior Players, which will be contested for the 19th year. The AJGA also extended invitations to top international junior players. There are 18 countries and 17 states represented on the invitation list, with players coming from as far away as China, Australia, South Africa, India and 10 European countries. Woods, the son of two-time Players Champion and World Golf Hall of Fame member Tiger Woods, earned his spot by winning the AJGA Team TaylorMade Invitational on May 28 at the Streamsong Resort. He jumped 585 spots on the rankings from 609th to 14th, and is currently 18th. Other local players invited are Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island (ninth on the AJGA rankings), a Vanderbilt commit who recently made the cut in the PGA Tour's RBC Canadian Open and has led Fleming Island to two FHSAA state championships in a row, Phillip Dunham of Ponte Vedra Beach (22nd) and Lucas Gimenez of Jacksonville (28th). Cameron Kuchar, the son of PGA Tour player Matt Kuchar, also earned an invitation. He is 15th on the current AJGA rankings. Defending champion Hamilton Coleman of Augusta, Ga., is ranked 12th. Coleman defeated Blades Brown in a playoff last year. If Woods and Kuchar commit, they will bring to four the number of sons of past Players Championship winners who have competed in the Junior Players. When will the Junior Players field be finalized? Players have until 3 p.m. on July 15 to commit to the Junior Players. What other sons of Players champions have competed in Junior Players?
USA Today
01-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Miles Russell, the top-ranked junior golfer in America, has made his college decision
Miles Russell of Jacksonville Beach, Florida, the No. 1-ranked player on the American Junior Golf Association Polo Rankings, has verbally committed to play college golf at Florida State. first reported the news and the Times-Union confirmed it with Russell's father Joe. Russell, who is home-schooled, has a 2027 graduation year listed by the AJGA. That means he could begin playing for FSU in the fall of 2027 if he signs with the Seminoles during the fall sports signing period in 2026. Russell has won numerous major junior tournaments, including the Junior PGA, the Junior Players Championship, the AJGA Tournament of Champions and the Sage Valley Invitational. He broke Tiger Woods' record as the youngest player to be named the AJGA Player of the Year in 2023. He has also played in two PGA Tour events and four Korn Ferry Tour events, and in 2024, at the age of 15, became the youngest player to make the cut on the Korn Ferry Tour at the LECOM Suncoast Classic. Russell was a member of the Junior Ryder Cup and the Junior Presidents Cup and was a member of the inaugural USGA Junior National team.
