Class of 2027 Boys Individual Rankings

*Will be updated around the 1st of each month

United States and Canada

2. Jessy Huebner: Huebner's list of accolades includes a top-5 finish at the 2025 Team Taylormade Invitational, top-10 finishes at the 2025 Dustin Johnson World Junior and AJGA Boys Simplify Championship, in addition to the 2024 Wyndham Invitational. He has finished in the top-15 at the 2024 Mayakoba Invitational, 2025 Terra Cotta, and the 2024 Western Junior, showing solid consistency in elite fields. Huebner reached the round of 32 at the 2024 US Junior and has carded two open AJGA wins and won the Florida Junior Amateur in 2024. Huebner has only finished out of the top-20 in major events once in the past year. He started the summer of 2025 with a top-5 at the Wyndham Invitational and a match play appearance at the North & South.

1. Miles Russell (Florida State): There is no question that Florida's Miles Russell is the number one recruit in the class of 2027, and many believe him to be the best recruit across all classes of junior golfers. Russell had an impressive string of wins in late 2024 and early 2025, with wins at the AJGA Rolex tournament of Champions, South Beach International Amateur, AJGA Simplify Boys Championship, and the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley, and has followed that with a top-10 at the 2025 Team Taylormade Invitational. His dominant run follows wins in 2023 at the Junior Players Championship and the Junior PGA Championship, a top-5 finish at the loaded-field 2025 Jones Cup, top-20 at the Western Amateur, and a top-20 Korn Ferry Tour finish in April of 2024. Russell has shown incredible consistency over the past two years, and is easily the most sought after recruit. He has found good results in the 2025 Elite Amateur series, with a runner-up finish at the Northeast Am and a round of 16 appearance at the North & South.

4. Ronin Banerjee: Califonian Banerjee notched three big-time top-5 finishes in 2024 at the AJGA's Ping and Wyndham Invitationals, and the Junior PGA Championship. Solidifying his elite status in 2024, he also carded top-10s at the R&A Amateur and two AJGA invitationals: the Mayakoba and the Rolex Tournament of Champions. His best results of 2025 thus far are a top-10 at the Junior PGA, top-15 finish at the AJGA Simplify, and round of 16 appearance at the U SJunior.

T7. Lunden Esterline (Auburn): Esterline enters the top-10 with a bang after a win at the 2025 Junior PGA Championship. Prior to that, he had a top-15 at the 2025 AJGA Wyndham Invitational, and AJGA open and TJGT wins in 2024. Esterline also had two local MN PGA wins in 2024 and one OJGT top-3 finish. The Junior PGA win could be a sign of more elite top finishes to come.

T7. Dawson Lew: Canadian Lew hails from Ontario, Canada, and has notched some fine finishes in his home country. He raised the winner's trophy at the 2025 Ontario Spring Classic, and the 2024 Golf Ontario Junior Championship. In the US, he carded wins at a 2025 open AJGA event and an IJGA event in 2024. Lew's biggest accomplishment thus far is a top-5 finish at the 2025 AJGA Simplify Boys Championship, and he had an additional two top-5 AJGA open finishes in 2024 in addition to a win in 2025. He has added a strong amateur finish with a top-5at the 2025 Ontario Amateur.

3. Giuseppe Puebla: Another Floridian, Puebla has been steadily rising in the rankings, with his best finishes being top-5s at the 2024 Junior Jones Cup and 2025 AJGA Simplify, in addition to a runner-up finish at the 2025 AJGA RLX. He added top-10 finishes to his resume at the 2024 AJGA Team Taylormade Invitational and the 2025 Terra Cotta, in addition to a top-15 showing at the 2024 Mayakoba Invitational. Regionally, he carded top-5 finishes in 2024 at an open AJGA and the Sea Pines Junior Heritage. Puebla had very strong showing at the 2025 Junior PGA with a runner-up finish.

5. Sohan Patel: Patel, a Floridian, has finished in the top-5 at the 2025 Dustin Johnson and the top-10 at the AJGA Mayakoba Invitational and the Ping Invitational in 2024. He added a top-5 finish at the 2024 Bobby Chapman Invitational and had one Florida Junior Tour win in 2024. Most notable for Patel is that he qualified for the 2023 & 2024 US Amateurs, making match play in 2024. Patel reached the quarterfinals of the US Junior.

8/1 A win at the Junior PGA Championship brings Esterline into the top-10, and the top-5 remain the same as all have had success over the past month. Puebla was runner-up at the Junior PGA and Patel and Banerjee had strong runs in the US Junior. The points between 9th and those on our watch list are very tight, and strong showings in elite events will cause some significant movement in the rankings.

Ranking system, explained: We assign point values to wins, top-5, top-10, and top-15 finishes in top junior and amateur events within a two year time span. AJGA open events and regional tournaments have been assigned lesser point values, as well as top-3 finishes, and points are subtracted for finishes outside the top-20 in the top junior events. Points adjustments are considered for players who play significantly less or more tournaments than others, and percentage of top finishes are evaluated. Our system rewards consistency of steady performance rather than an athlete with a few great finishes but several sub-par finishes. Events in the past year have more weight than tournaments in the previous year.

Internationals

William Lisle, Hong Kong (Texas): Lisle ended 2024 with a top-10 finish at the Sunshine State Amateur and began 2025 with a top-5 finish at the AJGA Simplify Boys Championship. He finished in the top-10 at the Junior North & South in 2024 and had two AJGA open top-3 finishes. Lisle notched a top-5 at the Bobby Chapman Invitational and made the round of 32 in the 2024 US Junior Amateur

Louis Klein, Czechia: Klein is a top-150 player and will be widely sought after if her chooses to go the collegiate route instead of turning pro. He has three wins since December in the United Arab Emirates and two runner-up finishes (one in Portugal). Klein made match play at the 2024 US Junior Amateur and was in the top-20 at the Junior PGA Championship. In 2024 he was runner-up at the Junior Invitational and 6th at the Dustin Johnson World Junior.

6. Evan Liu: California's Liu recently had a top-10 finish at the AJGA Team Taylomade Invitational after competing mainly in his home state in the past two years. His resume includes wins at two AJGA open events, one in 2024 & one in 2025, and a Toyota Tour Cup win in 2025. He has carded one additional AJGA top-3 finish in 2025 and was the runner-up at the California Amateur.

10. Kaden Chang: Californian Chang plays all of his tournaments in his home state, with the exception of the 2024 US Junior Amateur. He has three wins in 2025: one AJGA open event and two Toyota Tour Cup events, in addition to an SDJGA win in 2024. In addition, he had two SDJGA top-3 finishes in 2024.

9. Lucas Gimenez: Yet another Floridian on this list is Gimenez, who has won an AJGA event in the spring of 2025 after carding a top-15 finish at the 2024 Junior Jones Cup. Gimenez had a successful fall of 2024, with a top-10 at the Bobby Chapman Invitational and a top-5 finish at the Elite Invitational. He also had top-5 finishes in three AJGA open events in 2024.

Knocking on the door: Brandon Sipe, Davis Wotnosky, Brandon Sipe