PRESENTING
MEN’S AMATEUR
It was going to be hard for Jackson Koivun to top his 2024 performance, but the 20-year-old Auburn University player did so, capturing the prestigious McCormack Medal as the leading male in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. In 2025 he won the SEC Men’s Golf Championship Stroke Play and the NCAA Auburn Regional. Koivun’s amateur achievements helped secure professional opportunities. He qualified for his major championship debut at the U.S. Open in June and posted three finishes inside the top 12 on the PGA Tour, at the John Deere Classic, ISCO Championship and Wyndham Championship. He was a member of the winning U.S. Walker Cup team in September at Cypress Point. Koivun earned a PGA Tour card via the PGA Tour University Accelerated program but elected to return to Auburn for his junior year. Other notable performances included 18-year-old Mason Howell winning the U.S. Amateur at the Olympic Club, Oklahoma State’s Ethan Fang capturing the Amateur Championship at Royal St George’s and Mississippi’s Michael La Sasso winning the NCAA Division I Championship at La Costa Resort & Spa.
FIRST TEAM
Ethan Fang
Plano, Texas / Oklahoma State
Won: Amateur Championship
Member: U.S. Walker Cup team
Runner-up: Western Amateur
Mason Howell
Thomasville, Georgia
Won: U.S. Amateur
Qualified: U.S. Open
Ben James
Milford, Connecticut / Virginia
Quarterfinalist: Western Amateur
Jackson Koivun
Chapel Hill, North Carolina / Auburn
Won: McCormack Medal
Round of 32: U.S. Amateur
Michael La Sasso
Raleigh, North Carolina / Mississippi
Won: NCAA Championship
Made cut: PGA Tour 3M Open
Jacob Modleski
Noblesville, Indiana / Notre Dame
Semifinalist: Western Amateur
Quarterfinalist: U.S. Amateur
Tommy Morrison
Dallas, Texas / Texas
Third: Western Amateur stroke play
Round of 64: U.S. Amateur
Preston Stout
Richardson, Texas / Oklahoma State
Won: Northeast Amateur
Third: NCAA Championship
Jase Summy
Keller, Texas / Oklahoma
Won: Western Amateur
Third: Southern Amateur
Tyler Weaver
Newmarket, England / Florida State
Member: GB&I Walker Cup team
Runner-up: ACC Championship
Honorable mention
Niall Sheils Donegan
Mill Valley, California
Josiah Gilbert
Millbrook, Alabama
Max Herendeen
Bellevue, Washington
Filip Jakubcik
Holešov, Czechia
Eric Lee
Fullerton, California
Christiaan Maas
Pretoria, South Africa
Miles Russell
Jacksonville Beach, Florida
Lance Simpson
Knoxville, Tennessee
Jack Turner
Orlando, Florida
Tyler Watts
Huntsville, Alabama
Connor Williams
Escondido, California
Wells Williams
West Point, Mississippi
PHOTO CREDITS
Logan Whitton
Steven Gibbons
Ben James, Michael La Sasso, Jacob Modleski, Tommy Morrison, Preston Stout, Jase Summy
Chris Keane
Jeff Haynes
Eakin Howard
