Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island will play with Charlie Woods, the son of Tiger Woods, in the first two rounds of the Junior PGA July 29-Aug. 1 in West Lafayette, Ind.
Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island will play the first two rounds of the 49th Junior PGA Championship July 29-Aug. 1 with Charlie Woods, at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex in West Lafayette, Ind.
Mawhinney, Woods and Jackson Ormond of Webster, N.Y., who has verbally committed to play for the University of Florida, will tee off at 12:51 p.m. at No. 10 on July 29 of the home course for Purdue University. The group will play in the second round on July 30, beginning at No. 1, at 7:41 a.m.
The field of 156 boys will play at the Pete Dye-designed Ackerman-Allen Course. The field of 156 girls will play at the Kampen-Cosler Course. There is a 36-hole cut to the low 60, plus ties, and a 54-hole cut to the low 30, plus ties, in each division.
All three players competed in the U.S. Junior Amateur last week at the Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas. Mawhinney, who has committed to Vanderbilt, qualified for match play and won twice before being eliminated in the round of 16. Ormond reached match play and lost in the first round to Miles Russell of Jacksonville Beach, in a 20 holes.
Russell later reached the quarterfinals before he lost to Luke Colton of Frisco, Texas. Colton is also in the Junior PGA field.
Tyler Mawhinney has successful year
Mawhinney won the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball with future Vanderbilt teammate Will Hartman and later made the cut in his first PGA Tour start at the RBC Canadian Open. Mawhinney also won the 2024 Canadian Amateur and will play in the U.S. Amateur Aug. 11-17 at the Olympic Club in San Francisco.
Mawhinney won the Class 3A FHSAA state individual title in 2023 and has led Fleming Island to two state team championships in a row.
Mawhinney is 10th on the latest American Junior Golf Association rankings. Woods is 19th and Ormond is 45th.
Charlie Woods, Mawhinney and Russell will all play in the Junior Players Championship Aug. 29-31 at the TPC Sawgrass Players Stadium Course, where Woods' father won two Players Championships.
Who else is in the Junior PGA field from the First Coast?
Luke Balaskiewicz of Jacksonville, who will play in his final junior tournament before enrolling at the University of North Florida next month, Episcopal junior Sahana Chokshi and Beachside junior Samuel Ha of St. Augustine are also in the field.
Balaskiewicz was the runnerup in last week's Jacksonville Amateur. He will tee off at 9:25 a.m. from No. 10 in the first round of the Junior PGA and at 2:35 from No. 1 in the second round.
Chokshi gets an early start in the first round, teeing off at No. 10 at 7:35 a.m., then starts at No. 1 in the second round at 12:45 a.m.
Ha begins at No. 1 in the first round at 1:07 p.m., and at No. 10 in the second round at 7:57 a.m.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island grouped with Charlie Woods in Junior PGA
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