About Us

“The World Junior Golf Series” is a natural outgrowth of the explosion currently taking place throughout the world in competitive golf at young ages, both men and women. Instruction has improved greatly that now includes large academies offering regular schooling to young players as well as world-class golf instruction. Title IX federal legislation in the U.S. has played a huge role in the development of junior golf among women. They now see an opportunity for college scholarships at universities that may not have been affordable to the family before.
 
National teams of juniors have developed throughout Europe and championship competition has developed among the European nations fostered by the shorter travel distances than in other parts of the world. Schools in European countries rarely offer team competition among school leagues so national travel teams have developed similar to soccer developments in Europe over the years. It is now very common for the best juniors from Europe, Scandinavia, Africa, Australia, South America, the Far East and the British Isles to seek scholarship and playing opportunities at U. S. colleges.

Not unlike the L.P.G.A. and P.G.A. tours, junior golf has now received there own “Asian Domination” as evidenced by the names on the leader board of any major junior, college or tour golf tournament conducted throughout the world. The young players from the Far East have taken advantage of the U. S. academies for schooling, language training and golf training in a big way and the success of the academies shows through in a big way. They evidence the success of their role models and want a chance to follow, and are willing to take vast amounts of time practicing the game.

In the U.S., the major golf associations including the USGA, AJGA, and PGA are conducting “junior tour” type events every week throughout the playing season. Many smaller associations have developed around this trend toward championship junior golf creating fierce competition to attract the best players in the world to their tour or championship. Better players normally realize they will be eligible for many of the best championships, so they normally sit down in January and design their playing schedule for the summer months, not unlike a tour player. Most of the best players will leave holes in their schedules or just cancel a current commitment to accommodate international competition like the Junior Ryder Cup Matches, if they are fortunate enough to be selected to the teams.

The World Junior Golf Foundation and the experienced staff associated with the Foundation intend to create a structure for a World Junior Golf Series to showcase the best junior players (ages 12-19) on the world stage. With many years of competitive junior golf experience, we now know that these young people are the “World’s New Role Models” for other teenagers and adults, no matter where they live. We have seen there leadership skills; their academic record; their unquestioned ethical conduct; their record of “giving back” to their communities and country. “There are very few rogues in junior golf worldwide, tattoos are non-existent, body piercing is normally confined to the ears of the young women, performance enhancing drugs are a no-no, swearing is not tolerated by other players and officials and volunteers are addressed with the highest respect”. These are attributes that others need to witness and track perfectly with the mission statement of the Foundation.

We believe that competitive golf builds these unique attributes in young men and women around the world and later in life they will be centers of influence in the world as scholars, business men and women, teachers, physicians and public officials. They will set high standards of conduct for their individual nations and citizens helped by the Foundation and sponsor values they are witnessed. In addition, along the way, these players will get a valuable geography and history lesson and will become a fraternity built on friendship and accolades for their peer international players that will last a lifetime. This outreach is especially important because experience shows that less than 1% of these outstanding players make the grade on the professional tours, so this network of peers is essential as an aid in their life’s work.
                 
The intent of the Foundation is to “sanction” tournaments that currently exist in the United States and other countries to become part of the World Junior Golf Series that operate in compliance with tournament standards established by the Senior Advisors to the Foundation in consultation with Foundation officers and trustees. These standards will generally follow those tournament conduct standards established by the Westfield Jr. PGA Championship and the Harder German Junior Masters, two premier world junior championships.

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