Class of 2028 Boys Individual Rankings

*Rankings reflect points earned through June tournaments. Will be updated around the 1st of each month

United States and Canada

4. Jaden Soong: Californian Soong broke through with a win at the 2026 Junior PGA Championship. His biggest finish before that is at top-5 at the 2025 AJGA Ping Invitational, and he has also collected top-10 showings at the 2026 AJGA Team Taylormade Invitational and the 2025 ALGA RLX Ralph Lauren Classic (quarterfinalist). He followed his 2025 RLX showing with a semifinal appearance in 2026. Soong competes frequently at high level Invitationals and is looking to enter the top-15 on the leaderboards with more consistency in 2026.

2. Chase Bauer: At the top of our list is Floridian Bauer, a golfer who started off the 2026 season with a top-5 at the Dustin Johnson World Junior and top-10s at the AJGA Simplify Boys Championship and Wyndham Invitational. His biggest accolade was at an amateur event, The New Year’s Invitational, in which he finished runner-up. In 2025, Bauer notched an AJGA win and two wins on the Florida Junior Tour. He put his name on the recruiting map by reaching the round of 16 at the 2025 US Junior Amateur.

1. Rory Asselta: New Jersey’s Asselta was in the top-5 at the 2026 Junior PGA Championship and has found his name on leaderboards in the past year, with top-10 finishes at the Junior Jones Cup and the North & South Junior, and top-5 at the 2026 Junior Orange Bowl. He broke through with a win in the match play event AJGA RLX Ralph Lauren Jr Classic. He recently notched a top-15 finish at the AJGA Team Taylormade Invitational and had success in 2025 with a top-10 at the Southern Junior. Asselta raised the winner’s trophy at the National High School Invitational and had two AJGA open top-3 finishes.

5. Jude Xu: California Xu had top-10 finishes at the 2025 AJGA Team Taylormade Invitational and 2026 Western Junior. He has carded two Toyota Tour Cup wins since November of 2025, and has also collected three regional top-3 finishes in 2025 & 2026. Xu has two AJGA open top-3 finishes on his resume in 2025 & 2026, and was in the top-15 at the 2026 Wyndham Invitational.

10. Anson Munzlinger (University of Oklahoma): Munzlinger re-enters the top-10 with a top-5 finish at the 2026 Bubba Conlee. He has had regional success with wins at the Missouri Junior Match Play and an open AJGA event in 2025. He reached match play at the 2025 US Junior and has one AJGA open top-3 finish in 2026, as well as 2025 top-3s at the Missouri Junior Amateur and Junior Match Play, and the Granny Junior.

3. Grayson Baucom: North Carolina’s Baucom started 2026 with a bang, with a win at the AJGA Simplify Boys Championship and a top-5 finish at the Dustin Johnson. Baucom first made a name for himself with a win at the 2025 Scott Robertson Memorial and followed it with a top-10 at the AJGA Ping Invitational and top-15 at the 2025 AJGA Junior Players Championship and 2026 Wyndham Invitational. He had two AJGA open wins in 2025.

T7. Ambrose Kinnare: Florida's Kinnare has found a lot of success at the Regional level in Florida, with six wins in 2025 and 2026 in FJT and NFJG events. In that time period, he has amassed five top-3 placements on the same tours. In 2026, he has two AJGA open top-3 finishes and a top-5 at the Florida Junior Championship. We'd love to see what Kinnare can accomplish at a national, elite stage.

8/1: Asselta takes over the top spot in the rankings with a top-5 finish at the Junior PGA Championship, while Soong solidifies his top-4 standing with a win at the event. Hughes jumps into the top-10 with a top-5 at the Junior PGA and a round of 16 appearance at the North & South Amateur, while Stanford jumps four spots with a top-5 at the Junior PGA.

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.

9. JP Lynch: Lynch jumped into the top-10 with a top-10 finish at the 2025 Junior Worlds and top-15 at the 2026 Wyndham Invitational. L:ynch was in the top-15 at the 2026 Junior PGA and won the AJGA Jordan Spieth in 2026. He won the 2025 Amundi Evian Senior Showcase and had top-3 finishes in two LJT events and an AJGA Junior All-Star event in 2025.

T7. Chase Hughes (Oklahoma State): Hughes jumped into the top-10 in the rankings with a round of 16 appearance at the 2026 North & South Amateur and a top-5 at the 2026 Junior PGA Championship. Hughes finished in the top-15 at the 2025 Terra Cotta Invitational and won an AJGA open event in the same year. In 2026, Hughes carded a top-3 finish at the Oklahoma Junior Boys Championship.

6. Ainslie Stanford: Stanford, an Oklahoma native, won the 2026 Oklahoma Junior Championship and the 2025 All State Sugar Bowl. Playing mostly locally in Oklahoma, he had four regional top-3 finishes in 2025. He notched his first elite event top-5 finish at the 2026 Junior PGA Championship.

Next in line: Ryan Nana Tanke, Karl Stenson