John Doyle, Stuart Grehan and Caolan Rafferty will represent Ireland in the 34th World Amateur Team Championships for the Eisenhower Trophy in Singapore.
NUMBER OF TEAMS – 36 teams will compete in the 34th World Amateur Team Championship.
DEFENDING CHAMPION – The United States of America will look to become the first team to win consecutive WATC titles since it last did so in 2012 and 2014. Last year’s gold medal in the Eisenhower Trophy was its 16th, bringing the total USA medal count to 28. USA is one of seven countries to have competed in every edition of the championship. USA is also in position to become the first country since 1994 to win both the men’s and women’s competitions in the same year following its victory in the competition for the Espirito Santo Trophy last week. The last country to achieve this feat was also USA.
HOST NATION – Singapore is competing in its 15th World Amateur Team Championship. In 2023, the team finished T-29, and the country’s best team finish was the year before in Paris, where it finished 22nd.
MASTERS
One player competed in the 2025 Masters Tournament – Hiroshi Tai (SGP) MC.
U.S. OPEN
Two players competed in the 2025 U.S. Open Championship at Oakmont (Pa.) Country Club – Mason Howell (USA) MC, Tyler Weaver (ENG) MC.
OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP
Five players competed in the 2025 Open Championship at Royal Portrush – Cameron Adam (SCO) MC, Ethan Fang (USA) MC, Filip Jakubčík (CZE) MC, Richard Teder(EST) MC, Connor Graham (SCO) MC.
WALKER CUP
Ethan Fang, Mason Howell and Preston Stout represented the United States in the 2025 Walker Cup Match at Cypress Point Club in Pebble Beach, Calif.
Seven players in the field competed for Great Britain and Ireland: Cameron Adam(SCO), Eliot Baker (ENG), Charlie Forster (ENG), Connor Graham (SCO), Stuart Grehan (IRE), Niall Shiels-Donegan (SCO), Tyler Weaver (ENG)
WORLD AMATEUR GOLF RANKING® / WAGR® (Nine players in the Top 25 as of 1 Oct.)
3 – Ethan Fang (USA)
4 – Preston Stout (USA)
6 – Christian Maas (RSA)
7 – Filip Jakubčík (CZE)
12 – Tyler Weaver (ENG)
18 – Cameron Adam (SCO)
21 – Michael Alexander Mjaaseth (NOR)
22 – Tim Wiedemeyer (GER)
24 – Daniel Bennett (RSA)
OLDEST AND YOUNGEST
Alejandro Villavicencio, 45, of Guatemala, is the oldest player in the field. Villavicencio made history as the first golfer from Guatemala to compete in the U.S. Amateur in 2003 and the first to compete in the U.S. Mid-Amateur in 2019, and this week he is making his eighth appearance at the WATC, the most of any player in the field. Munesu Tadiswa Chimhini, of Zimbabwe, is the youngest in the field at age 14.
Storylines – Alphabetical (By Country)
ARGENTINA
Segundo Oliva Pinto, 26, is competing in his third WATC. Oliva Pinto played collegiately at the University of Arkansas and has competed in back-to-back U.S. Mid-Amateurs, sharing medalist honors with eventual champion Evan Beck in 2024. He finished T-3 in this year’s Latin America Amateur Championship after winning the 2024 Argentine Mid-Amateur Championship. Oliva Pinto is also the co-founder of a portable BBQ tool-kit company called Hangry King.
Juan Martín Loureiro, 22, won the 2024 Argentine Amateur Championship and represented Argentina in both the South American Amateur Team Championship (Copa Los Andes) and the St Andrews Links Trophy this year.
Mateo Pulcini, 25, made his U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship debut a few weeks ago at Troon Country Club, where he advanced to match play. Pulcini earned top-20 finishes in both the North & South Amateur as well as the Sunnehanna Amateur this year.
AUSTRALIA
Billy Dowling, 20, reached the quarterfinals of The Amateur Championship at Royal St George’s in England. Dowling also finished runner-up in the Scottish Open Amateur at North Berwick and competed in the 2025 U.S. Amateur at The Olympic Club.
Declan O’Donovan, 22, is the reigning Canadian Amateur champion and recently triumphed in both the New South Wales Amateur and Avondale Amateur, defending his titles in doing so. O’Donovan advanced to match play in The Amateur Championship in 2024 and 2025.
Harry Takis, 19, is a sophomore at San Diego State University. Takis won the 2025 Singapore Open Amateur Championship by 11 strokes and finished tied for second in this year’s Sahalee Players Championship. He also earned top-four finishes in both the Australian Master of the Amateurs and Australian Amateur Championship.
BRAZIL
Andrey Borges, 24, is a three-time Brazilian Amateur champion after reclaiming the title this year. Borges competed in the 2025 U.S. Amateur at The Olympic Club and represented Brazil in this year’s South American Amateur Team Championship (Copa Los Andes). He’s made six appearances in the Latin America Amateur Championship, finishing inside the top 10 three times, with his best performance coming in 2019, when he finished solo fifth at Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic.
Eduardo Ferreira, 19, represented Brazil in this year’s South American Amateur Team Championship alongside Borges and finished fourth in the Brazilian Amateur Championship. Ferreira also competed in the Latin America Amateur Championship at the start of the year, where he finished T-23. In 2024, he finished T-13 in the South American Junior Championship
Herik Oliveira, 24, is making his fourth Eisenhower Trophy appearance after competing in 2014, 2016 and 2018. Oliveira briefly competed as a professional in 2019-20, but he stopped playing golf altogether at the time due to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Oliveira, who won the Brazilian Amateur Championship in 2018, finished runner-up to Borges earlier this year.
CANADA
Ashton McCulloch, 23, is competing in his second WATC. A graduate student at Michigan State University, McCulloch made two starts in professional events this year at the Rocket Mortgage Classis and the RBC Canadian Open. In 2024, he competed in the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 and advanced to the Round of 16 in the U.S. Amateur at Hazeltine the same year, falling in 23 holes to 2024 U.S. Mid-Amateur runner-up Bobby Massa. McCulloch also competed in this year’s U.S. Amateur at The Olympic Club. As a senior at MSU, he was a preseason selection to the Ben Hogan Award Watch List before missing the majority of the season due to injury. He began playing competitively at age 15 after playing high-level ice hockey up until 2018.
Justin Matthews, 21, is a senior at Charlotte University, in North Carolina. He finished T-10 in the Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship earlier this summer and competed in the RBC Canadian Open. Matthews rounded out his junior season at Charlotte with three top-10 performances, including a runner-up finish in the Gators Invitational and a T-3 in the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate.
Isaiah Ibit, 19, is a sophomore at Kent State University in Ohio. He finished runner-up in the Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship and advanced to the Round of 32 of The Amateur Championship this year.
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Haoyi Wang, 16, finished T-12 in both the Chongqing Open and Guangdong Open in China, and he earned a T-14 finish in this year’s Royal Junior in Japan. Last year, he won both the HSBC China Junior Open and Shanshan Feng International Junior Championship and was fourth in the China Amateur Open as well.
Qiyou Wu, 16, reached the semifinals of the U.S. Junior Amateur at Trinity Forest Golf Club in Texas earlier this summer, falling 4 and 3 to eventual runner-up Nguyen Anh Minh, of Vietnam, who is also in the field this week. Wu is committed to the University of Notre Dame and earned three consecutive wins in professional events in China this year. He also won the AJGA’s Circle K Junior Championship earlier this summer and competed in the Trans-Mississippi Amateur Championship.
Ziqin Zhou, 19, reached the Round of 64 in both the U.S. Junior Amateur and the U.S. Amateur Championships this summer. Zhou has competed in the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship three times, finishing inside the top 25 on each occasion, including a runner-up performance in 2024 to 2022 U.S. Junior Amateur champion Wenyi Ding, who is now a professional. Zhou is a sophomore at the University of California, Berkeley.
COLOMBIA
Carlos Ardila Conde, 29, is a two-time Colombian Amateur champion and is competing in his third WATC. Ardila won the 2025 Colombian Open and finished runner-up in the South American Amateur Championship. He has never missed the cut in his five Latin America Amateur Championship starts.
Tomás Restrepo, 17, competed in both the U.S. Junior Amateur and U.S. Amateur this summer, advancing to the Round of 32 in the former. This summer, he won the South American Junior Championship, the AJGA Panama Junior and the Toyota Junior World Cup in Japan.
Conde and Restrepo will compete alongside 15-year-old Emilio Vélez, who competed in this year’s U.S. Junior Amateur and finished T-5 with Restrepo in this year’s Junior Panamerican Games.
CZECHIA
Filip Jakubčík, 21, is competing in his third WATC. Ranked No. 7 in the WAGR®, Jakubčík is a senior at the University of Arizona. He earned first-team All-Big 12 honors during his junior season after posting the team’s best scoring average (71.00) and winning the Western Intercollegiate for a second consecutive year. Jakubčík won this year’s European Amateur Championship, advanced to match play in this year’s U.S. Amateur and competed in the 2025 Arnold Palmer Cup for the victorious International Team.
Timotej Formánek, 20, is a sophomore at Ohio State University. Formánek earned two top-10 finishes in his freshman season and represented Czechia in the European Amateur Team Championship earlier this summer. He also won the 2024 Czech International Match Play Championship.
Jakubcik and Formánek will compete alongside 16-year-old Štěpán Plášek, who won the European Young Masters earlier this summer and competed in The R&A Boys’ Amateur Championship.
DENMARK
Claes Thrane Borregaard, 25, played collegiately for Kennesaw State University in Georgia. Borregard earned multiple top-five finishes in his senior season with the Owls – he won both the Pinetree Intercollegiate and the Cullan Brown Collegiate and finished runner-up in the NCAA Auburn Regional and Palmas del Mar Collegiate. He also tied for third in the Conference USA Men’s Golf Championship and represented Denmark in the European Amateur Team Championship this summer.
Oscar Holm Bredkjær, 21, is a junior at Clemson University in South Carolina after competing for Midland (Texas) Community College his freshman season and transferring to the University of San Francisco for his second year of college. He won the Dutch International Junior Open this summer, represented Denmark alongside Borregaard at the European Amateur Team Championship and competed in the St Andrews Links Trophy.
Borregaard and Bredkjær will compete alongside 25-year-old Kristian Hjort Bressum, who won the 2024 Danish International Amateur Championship and was runner-up in the 2025 European Amateur Championship.
ENGLAND
The English trio of Eliot Baker, Charlie Forster and Tyler Weaver all represented Great Britain & Ireland in the 50th Walker Cup Match at Cypress Point Club and their home country in the European Amateur Team Championship this summer.
No.12-ranked Weaver, 20, is a junior at Florida State. He advanced to the Round of 32 in the U.S. Amateur at The Olympic Club and qualified for the U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club. He also competed in this year’s Arnold Palmer Cup for the victorious Internatonal Team.
Forster, 22, is a senior at Long Beach State University, earned two collegiate victories as a junior and advanced to match play at both the U.S. Amateur and The Amateur Championship.
Baker, 22, won this year’s Scottish Men’s Open Championship and the Portuguese International Amateur Championship
ESTONIA
Kevin Christopher Jegers, 24, won the Estonian Amateur Open this year and advanced to the semifinals of the Estonian Match Play championship. He also won the Estonian National Stroke Play Championship this year.
Richard Teder, 20, competed in the 153rd Open Championship at Royal Portrush, the U.S. Amateur, The Amateur Championship and the European Amateur Championship, where he finished T-5. Teder won this year’s Estonian Match Play Championship.
Mattias Varjun, 25, finished third in the Estonian National Stroke Play Championship and runner-up in the European Mid-Amateur Championship. He also finished T-3 in the Estonian Amateur Open. Varjun played collegiately first for Middle Tennessee State University, then for Virginia Commonwealth University, and finally as a graduate student for the University of Missouri.
FRANCE
Hugo Le Goff, 17, is competing in his second WATC. He won this year’s Lytham Trophy and finished eighth in the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley. He also finished T-9 in the Western Amateur Championship and competed in the U.S. Amateur at The Olympic Club. He also was a member of the European Junior Ryder Cup Team that narrowly lost to the U.S. last month at Nassau Country Club in New York.
Oscar Couilleau, 17, won this year’s Monroe Invitational and competed on this year’s Junior Ryder Cup team. He also represented France in the European Amateur Team Championship and advanced to the Round of 64 in The Amateur Championship this summer.
Louis Anceaux, 20, is a junior at the University of Louisiana, Monroe. He competed in The Amateur Championship and the St Andrews Links Trophy, and he represented France in the European Amateur Team Championship alongside Le Goff and Couilleau this summer.
GERMANY
Wolfgang Glawe, 23, competed in the U.S. Amateur at The Olympic Club this summer and advanced to the Round of 32 while carrying his own bag. Glawe, who played collegiately at the University of Houston, finished T-4 in this year’s European Amateur Championship.
Tim Wiedemeyer, 20, also advanced to the Round of 32 at The Olympic Club and to the Round of 16 at The Amateur Championship. Wiedemeyer is a junior at Texas Tech University and arrives at Tanah Merah fresh off a victory in the OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational.
Glawe and Wiedemeyer will compete alongside 20-year-old Emil Riegger, a junior at the University of Maryland who finished solo-fourth in the Scottish Men’s Open Championship and advanced to the Round of 64 in The Amateur Championship.
GUAM
Redge Camacho, 30, is representing Guam in the Eisenhower Trophy for the fourth time. He competed in this year’s Singapore Open Amateur and finished fifth in the Guam Amateur Championship. He has competed in nine Asia-Pacific Amateur Championships, where he made the cut for the first time in 2024 at Taiheiyo Club Gotemba in Japan.
Ivan Sablan, 21, won the 2025 Guam Amateur Championship and competed in this year’s Singapore Open Amateur Championship.
Camacho and Sablan will compete alongside 20-year-old Markus Nanpei, a senior at Weber State University.
GUATEMALA
Alejandro Villavicencio, 45, is playing in his eighth Eisenhower Trophy competition, the most of any player in the field. Villavicencio, who competed in the U.S. Amateur at The Olympic Club, has competed in eight Latin America Amateur Championships, his best finish being T-14 in 2024 at Santa Maria Golf Club in Panama. He has competed in five U.S. Mid-Amateurs (2019, 2021-24), advancing to the Round of 32 in 2019. Villavicencio runs a telecommunications company that services phone towers, and his family runs a restaurant chain called Los Ranchos.
Gabriel Palacios, 20, is a junior at the University of Utah and competing in his third WATC. Palacios won this yea’rs Junior Panamerican Games and arrives off two top-three collegiate performances, including a victory at The Tindall in September.
Villavicencio and Palacios will compete alongside 31-year-old Sebastian Barnoya, who is making his WATC debut.
INDIA
Rakshit Dahiya, 18, finished fifth in the Singapore Junior Championship, advanced to match play at The Amateur Championship earlier this summer and competed in the 2024 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship.
Dahiya will compete alongside Deepak Yadav, 23, and 24-year-old Arin Ahuja, who competed in this year’s Singapore Open Amateur Championship.
Captain Bibhuti Bhushan has served in the Indian Armed Forces for more than 35 years and was awarded the Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM) by the President of India. He serves as the Director General for the Indian Golf Union.
INDONESIA
Asa Najib Bhakti, 24, earned third-place finishes in the Indonesia National Amateur and the Olympic Jabar Amateur Open.
Randy Arbenata Bintang, 21, this year won the Medco Pondok Indah Amateur Championship and finished third in both the Chinese Taipei Amateur and Malaysian Amateur in 2024. Bintang has competed in three Asia-Pacific Amateur Championships.
Amadeus Christian Susanto, 22, won the Olympic Jabar Amateur Open earlier this summer and competed in the 2024 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship.
IRELAND
John Doyle, 18, was the runner-up at both the St. Andrews Links Trophy and the English Boys’ Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship. He finished tied for fifth in The R&A Boys’ Amateur Championship and represented Team Europe at the 2025 Junior Ryder Cup.
Stuart Grehan, 32, was the mid-amateur representing Great Britian and Ireland at the 2025 Walker Cup at Cypress Point Club. He won both the Irish Men’s Amateur Open Championship and Irish Men’s Amateur Close Championship. Grehan finished third at the European Mid-Amateur Championship and advanced to the Round of 32 and the R&A Amateur Championship. He regained his amateur status earlier this year.
Doyal and Grehan are joined by Caolan Rafferty, 32, who won the North of Ireland Men’s Amateur Open Championship.
ITALY
Riccardo Fantinelli, 21, advanced to the semifinals of this year’s Amateur Championship. A senior at Princeton University in New Jersey, he was the unanimous 2024-25 Ivy League Player of the Year and claimed the 2025 Ivy League title.
Michele Ferrero, 20, won this year’s Italian International Amateur Championship and earned top-10 finishes at both the 2025 English Men’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship and Lytham Trophy. Ferrero competed in the 2025 Amateur Championship.
Filippo Ponzano, 21, is coming off his win at the 2025 Italian Amateur Stroke Play Championship. He advanced to the quarterfinals at this year’s Amateur Championship and was the runner-up at the Italian International Amateur Championship.
JAPAN
Taishi Moto, 20, is a sophomore at the University of Arizona. He finished T-3 and T-5 in the Southern Amateur and Western Amateur, respectively, while also competing in the Northeast Amateur and Sunnehanna Amateur this summer. He also competed in the 2024 U.S. Junior Amateur and Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship.
Taisei Nagasaki, 16, earned co-medalist honors in the Toyota Junior World Cup and was runner-up in the Japan Amateur Championship. Nagasaki also finished T-8 in the Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship.
Rintaro Nakano, 21, advanced to the Round of 16 in The Amateur Championship and the Round of 32 of the U.S. Amateur. Nakano finished third in the 2024 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship and won the 2023 Japan Amateur Championship.
MEXICO
Carlos Astiazaran, 20, won this year’s North & South Amateur Championship. He transferred to Vanderbilt for his junior campaign after spending his first two collegiate seasons at the University of the Pacific.
Gerardo Gomez, 20, is a sophomore at the University of Arkansas. He finished T-3 at this year’s Latin America Amateur Championship at Pilar Golf Club in Argentina, and in 2024 he won the Mexican Amateur Championship. This summer, he competed in The Amateur Championship and the European Amateur Championship, as well as the Southern and Western Amateur Championships.
Astiazaran and Gomez will compete alongside 20-year-old Eduardo Derbez, a sophomore at the University of Texas.
Captain Ricardo Carrillo also served as the captain of the women’s team for the Espirito Santo Trophy competition this year.
MOROCCO
Hugo Mazen Trommetter, 21, is competing in his third WATC. A junior at the University of South Florida after transferring from Sam Houston State, Trommetter earned five top-10 finishes as a sophomore, highlighted by a victory at the Git-R-Done Invitational. He finished third in the 2025 Conference USA Men’s Golf Championship and competed in the Asian Tour’s International Series Morocco this year.
Adam Bresnu, 21, is a junior at Texas Tech University following two seasons at Odessa College in Texas, where he earned nine wins and 30 top-10 finishes over two years. This summer, he finished fourth at the Northeast Amateur Invitational, ninth at the North & South Amateur Championship and competed in the Sunnehanna. He finished fifth in the Carmel Cup in August.
Trommetter and Bresnu will compete alongside 15-year-old Alexandre El Khomri, who competed in the Boy’s Junior PGA Championship and the Junior Players Championship. El Khomri also won the Morroco Junior Championship.
NETHERLANDS
Guus Lafeber, 17, made history by becoming the first Dutch player to win The R&A Boys’ Amateur Championship at County Louth in the Republic of Ireland this summer. He also won the Dutch National Stroke Play Championship this year and competed in the U.S. Junior Amateur at Trinity Forest.
Benjamin Reuter, 22, is a redshirt senior at Georgia Tech University. He competed in each of the last two editions of the Eisenhower Trophy, helping Netherlands to a 10th-place finish in 2023. Reuter competed in both the U.S. Amateur and The Amateur Championship this summer, and he represented the Netherlands in the European Amateur Championship.
Reuter and Lafeber will compete alongside 23-year-old Nevill Ruiter, who plays collegiately at the College of Charleston in South Carolina as a graduate student.
Captain Reinier Saxton played for the Netherlands in the 2008 WATC and defeated Tommy Fleetwood in the final match of the 2008 Amateur Championship at Turnberry. Saxton will serve as the Dutch captain for the third time.
NEW ZEALAND
Cooper Moore, 17, won this year’s APGC Boys’ Junior Championship and the Australian Boys’ Amateur. Moore also finished T-4 in the Australian Amateur and T-8 at last year’s Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship. He won the 2024 New Zealand Amateur and was runner-up in The R&A Junior Open in Scotland that year.
Robby Turnbull, 18, is a freshman at Eastern Michigan University. He finished solo fourth in the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley this year and the New Zealand Stroke Play championship, and he competed in the 2024 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship.
Moore and Turnbull will compete alongside 19-year-old Zackary Swanwick, who competed in the U.S. Amateur at The Olympic Club and finished third at the Western Amateur Championship.
NORWAY
Michael Alexander Mjaaseth, 22, is making his third WATC appearance. Mjaaseth helped lead Norway to T-2 finish in 2023 with a T-8 individual performance as well as a fourth-place team finish in France three years ago with a T-9 individual performance, which was the nation’s first top-10 finish since 2000. A senior at Arizona State University, Mjaaseth was named the Pacific-12 Conference freshman of the year in 2023.
Joachim Larsen Tegner, 21, is a junior at Campbell University in North Carolina, where he owns the sixth-lowest scoring average (72.59) in school history, recording nine top-10 finishes in 22 starts with the team. He competed in both The Amateur Championship and the European Amateur Championship this summer.
Mjaaseth and Tegner Will compete alongside 18-year-old Emil Børrestuen Herstad.
PANAMA
Raul Carbonell, Miguel Ordoñez and Omar Tejeira are making their second appearance as a team in the WATC after finishing T-37 in 2022 at Le Golf National in Paris.
Tejeira, 35, reached the Round of 64 of the U.S. Amateur in 2024 and competed in the U.S. Mid-Amateur the same year. Tejeira has competed in the last four Latin America Amateur Championships and made the cut each time.
Ordoñez, 41, finished T-9 in this year’s Crump Cup at Pine Valley Golf Club and competed in the 2023 U.S. Mid-Amateur at Sleepy Hollow. He has participated in all 10 editions of the Latin America Amateur Championship, and in 2024, he won the Coronado Amateur Open in Panama and competed in the Korn Ferry Tour’s Panama Championship.
26-year-old Carbonell was the 2024 Central American Champion and has competed in six Latin America Amateur championships.
PARAGUAY
Erich Fortlage, 19, is a sophomore at the University of Arkansas. He earned his first collegiate victory as a freshman at the Palmas del Mar Collegiate and recently finished sixth in The Carmel Cup. Fortlage competed in the 2024 U.S. Amateur at Hazeltine. He won the 2023 South American Junior
Benjamin Fernandez, 20, is a junior at Southern Mississippi University. He was runner-up at the Junior Panamerican Games this year and competed in The Amateur Championship as well as the European Amateur Championship. Fernandez won the 2024 Brazilian Amateur Championship.
Fortlage and Fernandez will compete alongside 18-year-old Franco Fernandez.
SCOTLAND
Connor Graham, Cameron Adam and Niall Shiels-Donegan represented Great Britian & Ireland at the 2025 Walker Cup at Cypress Point Club.
Graham, 18, also represented Great Britain & Ireland in the 2023 Walker Cup at St Andrews as the side’s youngest competitor. He competed in the 2025 Open Championship at Royal Portrush Golf Club, advanced to the Round of 32 of the U.S. Amateur and made it to the Round of 16 in The Amateur Championship. In 2023, he won the Scottish Men’s Open Championship.
Adam, 22, won this year’s St. Andrew Links Trophy and competed in the 153rd Open Championship at Royal Portrush Golf Club. He advanced to the quarterfinals of the Western Amateur Championship and competed in the U.S. Amateur at The Olympic Club. Adam played his collegiate golf at Northwestern University.
Shiels-Donegan, 20, advanced to the semifinals of the 2025 U.S. Amateur, finished fourth in the St Andrews Trophy and made match play at The Amateur Championship. Shiels-Donegan is a junior at the University of North Carolina after playing his first two collegiate seasons at Northwestern University. He is the son of noted golf writer Lawrence Donegan.
SINGAPORE
Hiroshi Hirahara Tai, 23, made history as the first player from Asia to win the NCAA Division I Men’s Individual Championship in 2024. A senior at Georgia Tech University, Tai made history by becoming the first player from Singapore to compete in the Masters Tournament and the U.S. Open a year ago.
Brayden Lee, 18, competed in this year’s U.S. Junior Amateur, The Amateur Championship and won the Royal Junior in Japan. He finished third in the Singapore Junior Golf Championship and T-11 in the Singapore Open Amateur Championship.
Troy Storm, 16, advanced to match play in this year’s U.S. Junior Amateur at Trinity Forest Golf Club and finished runner-up in both the Singapore Junior Championship and Hong Kong Junior Open Championship.
SOUTH AFRICA
Christiaan Maas, 22, is ranked No. 6 in WAGR® and is competing in his second WATC. A senior at the University of Texas, Maas was a finalist for the Jack Nicklaus Player of the Year award after his junior season. He advanced to the Round of 32 of the U.S. Amateur this summer and competed in The Amateur Championship. He finished fourth in this year’s Investec South African Open Championship.
Daniel Bennett, 20, is teammates with Maas at the University of Texas. A sophomore, Bennett earned National Freshman of the Year honors and competed in the Arnold Palmer Cup for the victorious International Team. Had multiple top-10 finishes as a freshman and advanced to the Round of 16 of the U.S. Amateur.
Maas and Bennett Will compete alongside 19-year-old Charl Barnard, who won this year’s South African Amateur Championship (match play).
SPAIN
Alejandro De Castro Piera, 20 is a senior at Long Beach State University, earning first-team All-Big West honors in his junior campaign. He finished tied for sixth at the European Amateur Championship and competed in The Amateur Championship.
Sergio Jiménez Romero, 20, finished tied for ninth at the year’s European Amateur Championship. A junior at the University of Utah, Jimenez Romero also advanced to the Round of 32 of The Amateur Championship. He recorded his first collegiate win at the 2024 Palouse Collegiate in Washington.
Álvaro Pastor Roman, 20, is a redshirt freshman at Division I Tarleton State University in Texas. This year, he advanced to the Round of 16 at The Amateur Championship and competed in the European Amateur Championship. Pastor Roman holds multiple victories in Royal Spanish Golf Federation events.
De Castro Piera, Jiménez Romero and Pastor Roman all represented Spain in the 2025 European Amateur Team Championship.
SWEDEN
Alfons Bondesson, 22, finished T-21 at this year’s European Amateur Championship and competed in The Amateur Championship earlier this year. Bondesson is a senior at Louisiana State University, finishing tied for eighth at the 2025 SEC Championships. This year, he competed for Sweden in the European Amateur Team Championship.
Filip Fahlberg Johnsson, 19, was a member of the NCAA Division I champion Oklahoma State University men’s golf team, going 3-0 during the match-play portion of the championship. This year, he competed in the European Amateur Championship and The Amateur Championship.
Simon Hovdal, 20, is a freshman at Texas Tech University. He advanced to the Round of 16 of The Amateur Championship, finished T-32 at the European Amateur Championship and tied for 10th in the English Men’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship. Hovdal played alongside Alfons Bondesson for Team Sweden in this year’s European Amateur Team Championship.
THAILAND
Arsit Areephun, 22, is a junior at the University of Delaware and is coming off a nine-stroke victory at the Blue Hen Intercollegiate, the first win of his collegiate career. He finished runner-up in the 2025 PGA Works Collegiate Championship and holds two other top-10 finishes during his 2025 season.
Pongsapak Laopakdee, 20, is a junior at Arizona State University. He advanced to match play at the 2025 U.S. Amateur and competed in the Western Amateur Championship. He finished tied for sixth in the 2025 Sahalee Players Championship and recorded his second collegiate victory at the 2025 Thunderbird Collegiate. During his 2024 season, he advanced to the Round of 16 at the North & South Amateur Championship.
Parin Sarasmut, 17, has claimed three career victories in Thailand Golf Association events. This year, he finished runner-up at both The Royal Junior and Future Champions Golf International Junior Championship. Sarasmut also placed third in the APGC Junior Championship and finished eighth in the Uswing Mojing Junior World.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Mason Howell, 18, claimed the 2025 U.S. Amateur at The Olympic Club, defeating Jackson Herrington in the 36-hole final and becoming the third-youngest champion. Howell played in the 2025 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club, shooting bogey-free, back-to-back 63s in Final Qualifying to share medalist honors at Piedmont Driving Club, in Atlanta. He also earned medalist honors in the 2025 U.S. Junior Amateur at Trinity Forest Golf Club, but lost in the opening round to Henry Guan, and reached match play in the 2024 U.S. Junior Amateur at Oakland Hills. Howell finished T-9 in the 2025 Junior PGA Championship. Howell won the 2025 Georgia High School Individual Stroke Play title and is committed to play collegiately at the University of Georgia in 2026. He is also part of the U.S. National Development Program as a member of Georgia’s State Junior Team.
Preston Stout, 21, was the medalist in the U.S. Amateur at The Olympic Club, advancing to the Round of 16 before falling short to Niall Shiels Donegan. Stout won the 2025 Northeast Amateur at Wannamoisett Country Club, in Rhode Island by eight strokes. The rising junior at Oklahoma State University helped the Cowboys win the 2025 NCAA Division I title, going 2-1 in match play. Stout also won the 2024 and 2025 Big 12 Conference individual titles, qualified for match play in the 2023 and 2024 U.S. Amateurs and finished third as an individual in the 2025 NCAA Division I Championships.
Ethan Fang, 20, captured The 130th Amateur Championship at Royal St. George’s, in England, becoming the first American in 18 years to win the world’s oldest amateur competition. The rising junior at Oklahoma State helped the Cowboys claim the 2025 NCAA Division I title. Fang advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2024 U.S. Amateur at Hazeltine National and reached the Round of 16 at the 2022 U.S. Junior Amateur at Bandon Dunes.
Mason Howell, Preston Stout and Ethan Fang were all members of the victorious 2025 USA Walker Cup Team at Cypress Point Club.
Ethan Fang (No. 2) and Preston Stout (No. 3) are the highest-ranked players in the field.
VIETNAM
Anh Huy Ho, 15, advanced to the Round of 64 at the 2025 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship. He finished as the runner-up in the 2025 Vietnam Amateur Open.
Nguyen Anh Minh, 18, was the runner-up in the 2025 U.S. Junior Amateur, falling short to Hamilton Coleman, 2 and 1, in the championship final. He advanced to the quarterfinals at the Western Amateur Championship and finished tied for eighth in the Singapore Open Amateur Championship. Also this summer, Anh Minh competed in both the U.S. Amateur and The Amateur Championship. He is a freshman at Oregon State University.
Nguyen Duc Son, 18, holds six career victories at Vietnam Golf Association events.
WALES
Jonathan Bale, 37, is coming off his recent appearance in the 2025 U.S. Mid-Amateur. He also competed in the Western Amateur Championship and Southern Amateur Championship this year.
Tomi Bowen, 22, competed in the U.S. Amateur Championship, the Western Amateur Championship, The Amateur Championship as well as made the cut in the European Amateur Championship.
Bowen and Bale will compete alongside Caolan Burford, 21, who advanced to the Round of 32 at the Welsh Men’s Amateur Championship.
ZIMBABWE
Munesu Tadiswa Chimhini, 14, won the 2025 Zimbabwe Golf Association Hillside Masters, and was the runner-up in the Mawegu Amateur.
Darlington Chikanyambidze, 19, won the 2025 Beta Power Open and was the runner-up in the 2025 Hillside Masters. During the 2025 season, he racked up seven more top-five finishes in Zimbabwe Golf Association events.
Elton Dancel Zulu, 26, holds victories in the 2025 Roland Park Open and Midlands Amateur.
