Recruiting Report

Check back every Sunday for a weekly wrap-up on that week's recruiting news and highlights!

12/15

Commitments are rolling in to some of the top, prestigious institutions, as many athletes have to wait to be accepted through the admissions process before announcing their commitment. Congrats to all golfers who had been patiently waiting to make their commitment public, and for gaining acceptance to your school!

Class of 2026: UNC Wilmington received commitment from JGS top-100 player Will Ruth. The South Carolina women's class of 2026 just got better with the addition of Switzerland's Yana Beeli, the 2023 Annika Invitational Europe and 2024 Swiss Golf Open champion.

Class of 2025: Harvard men's golf admitted their first 2025 commitment in Morgan Riley, a top-50 player who finished 3rd at the Dye Junior Invitational and 4th at the Southern Junior.

12/8

Class of 2026: Georgia's Georgia Blount has mad a commitment to play for James Madision. Blount, a top-60 recruit, won the Louise Suggs Invitational in 2024. The Oregon women received commitment from Prim Prachnakorn, a player from Thailand currently at 201 in WAGR. She was the 2024 UAE Cup champion and finished 6th at the Toyota Junior World Cup. The UC San Diego men have committed a top-100 recruit, Cole Kim, from the class of 2026, and Maryland received commitment form too-100 Charles Beeson. The Northwestern men picked up a top-40 commit in Carter Gaede of California, who had one AJGA & one runner-up finish in 2024. The Oklahoma women have a top-100 recruit in Floridian Valentina Guertin, and Cal Poly received verbal commitment from top-100 Lexi Lowe.

Class of 2025: Top-100 recruit Alyssa Lim has committed to play for Carnegie Mellon. China's Kinsley Ni, a top-10 2026 recruit, has re-classed while announcing she will join the Arizona Wildcats in 2025. Ni was 2nd at the 2023 Junior PGA Championship and was stroke play medalist at the 2024 US Girls Junior.

12/1

Class of 2026: Northwestern picked up an international commit in England's Kuan Zhou, who is ranked #56 on JGS. Zhou finished 3rd at IMG Junior Worlds and had one AJGA win in 2024. Kansas State received verbal commitment from Missouri's Peyton Smith, a top-70 recruit who had one open AJGA win & two runner-up finishes in 2024. The Cal women will be getting a top-25 recruit in Californian Zoe Inseoul Jiamanukoonkit, who had one Toyota Tour Cup win & five top-4 finishes in 2024. The Wake Forest women are getting a strong Swedish recruit with Havanna Torstensson, who won the R&A Girls Amateur Championship this year. New Mexico State's women's team received verbal commitment from Arizona's Julia Herzberg, a top-40 recruit on JGS. She had one open AJGA win & two top-5 finishes in 2024.

Class of 2025: After his original commitment to Florida was affected by the pending roster limits, Lorenzo Rodriguez, who competed at the 2023 US Amateur, has now committed to Wake Forest.

11/25

Class of 2026: Kentucky's Trinity Beth, ranked 12th on JGS, announced her commitment to Georgia. Beth was 2nd at both the Bubba Conlee and the Granny Junior Invitational in 2024. The Illinois men picked up their 2nd player for 2026 in Vietnam's Le Khanh Hung, a player who qualified for match play at this year's US Amateur and won a professional event in Asia in 2023, the Lexus Challenge. Kayla Bryant, ranked 11th on JGS, will be attending Florida State in 2026. She won the 2024 Junior Orange Bowl and was 5th at the Dustin Johnson World Junior. The Clemson women received commitment from top-50 prospect Caroline Hawkins, won had three AJGA open top-5 finishes in 2024.

Class of 2025: Cal Berkeley announced a huge signing in Xihuan Cheng of China. Cheng reached the semi-finals at the 2024 US Junior Amateur and reached match play at the US Amateur. He has seven professional wins in China. The first class of women's golfers at Rice University has added Amelie Phung, who is a top-70 prospect on JGS.

11/17

Class of 2026: The Arkansas women's future looks bright with the addition of Kansas' Emerie Schartz. Schartz was the 2023 Kansas Women's Amateur champion and won the Kansas Junior Amateur in 2023 & 2024. Top-75 recruit Raquel Walker, the 2023 Hope Valley champion, has committed to Virginia Tech. Another top-75 player, Roison Scanlon of England, announced her commitment to Texas Tech. She has two Florida runner-up finishes in 2024. The University of Nevada picked up a strong recruit in Thailand's Wiss Jittathorn, who has two junior wins in his homeland in 2024 and is ranked in the top-25 on JGS. LSU received verbal commitment from top-40 JGS recruit Austin Randall, who has six top-5 finishes among several Texas junior tours in 2024. Jack Chung of Connecticut announced his commitment to Duke this morning. He was the runner-up at the Connecticut Amateur and has one AJGA win in 2024.

Class of 2025: In general, withe the impending roster limits, we expected less signings than what occurred. While these signings are great for the class of 2025 at the time, we are very curious to see what happens when NCAA roster limit rules are finalized in the spring. Many teams are several players over the proposed limit of nine (or eight for the SEC). Mitchell Maier, a top-75 player, found a home at North Texas. LSU signed England's Daniel Hayes, bolstering their 2025 class. He had three amateur wins in England in 2024.

11/10

Class of 2026: San Diego State received their first verbal commitment in this class from top-60 recruit Miles Kuhl of Colorado. Kuhl qualified to the 2024 US Amateur and won an AJGA open event this year. Kansas' Brady Rapp, a top-25 recruit, is staying in-state in 2026 with the Kansas Jayhawks. He had two AJGA open wins and a runner-up finish in 2026. The Duke women's team received a major commitment from Ohio's Mia Hammond, long one of the top recruits in this class. Hammond finished 26th in the LPGA Dana Open in 2023 and was 2nd in the 2024 Dustin Johnson World Junior. The Oregon women gained a top-10 recruit in Canadian Celina Yeo, who finished 2nd in the AJGA Rolex Girls Invitational in 2024, along with an open runner-up finish. Th Cavaliers of Virginia will get better in 2026 with their 2nd international recruit, Hugo Le Goff of France. Le Goff won both the Grand Prix de Bayeaux and the CJGA World Junior Challenge in 2024, among other top finishes. The Wake Forest women added to the 2026 class with top-20 prospect Vidhi Lakhawala of New Jersey. She reached match play at the 2024 US Girls Junior and had seven top-6 finishes in AJGA open events in 2023 & 2024. The lady Auburn Tigers also improved their 2026 class with South African Gia Raad, who won the English Girls Open Championship in 2023 and the South African Women's Amateur in 2024.

11/3

Class of 2026: The Auburn women's team picked up a verbal commitment from Kallyn Black, a top-20 recruit on JGS. Black performed well in AJGA events in 2024, with one win & three top-5 finishes. The Illinois women received verbal commitment from top-50 prospect Lisa Copeland, who reached the round of 32 at the US Girls Junior and won an AJGA open event in 2024. The Florida State men grabbed their first recruit with England's Charlie Rusbridge, who had three wins in his home country in 2024. Ole Miss jumped into 4th in our 2026 girls' recruiting class rankings with their 2nd commit, Sweden Ebba Lundqvist. She has one win & three top-3 finishes in Swedish junior events in 2024.

Class of 2025: Top-50 recruit Gabriella Albert has announced that Georgia will be her future home. She had one AJGA runner-up finish in 2024, along with a 3rd place at the Sea Pines Junior Heritage.

10/27

Class of 2026: TCU picked up their first commit of this class with JGS top-50 recruit Blake Brown, who had one AJGA open win in 2024. Preston Hage joins Asher Vargas to form a top-10 recruiting class at UNC Chapel Hill. Hage is a top-30 ranked recruit with two AJGA top-10 finishes, as well as an 8th place showing at the Bobby Chapman Invitational. The Notre Dame men's team received their first verbal commitment of this class from Australia Chase Oberle, who has won four junior events in his home country this year, but is untested in the US. We sifted through the AJGA website to locate the commitment of New York's Jackson Ormond to the Florida Gators. Ormond, a top-25 prospect, recently finished 4th at the AJGA Ping Invitational and won an AJGA open event in 2023. This makes two northeast recruits for UF, an usual occurrence for the Gators. On the women's side, Texas vaulted into our top-5 recruiting class list with the commitment of Amy Lee, their 2nd top-10 recruit in this class. Lee had three AJGA top-4 finishes in 2024, including a runner-up finish at the Fortinet Girls Invitational.

Class of 2025: Some of the class of 2025 Ivy commitments will come trickling in in the next few months, started by Yale's Lydia Portlock, a top-30 recruit. Portlock is the 2024 Mack Champ Invitational champion and won the LJT Jimmy Demerat Junior Classic.

10/20

Class of 2026: It's been a big week for Tennessee, as they received the commitment from #2 ranked Tyler Watts, the US Junior Amateur runner-up and winner of the Junior Jones Cup, among many other accomplishments. He is joined by JGS top-30 recruit Pennson Badgett, the AJGA RLX Ralph Lauren Junior Classic champion. Alabama picked up another solid recruit in Phillip Dunham, currently #5 on our recruit list. He won the 2024 Sea Pines Junior Heritage and the 2023 Dye Junior Invitational. Southern Methodist snagged a JGS top-20 player in Nicholas Logis, a two-time AJGA open winner. On the women's side, Stanford has distanced themselves from the field by receiving commitment from Jude Lee, a top-5 recruit who has one AJGA open win and two runner-up finishes in 2024. The Oklahoma men's team has their second 2026 recruit in Max Emberson, who sits at #23 in the JGS rankings. He has two AJGA open 3rd place finishes in 2024. The Virginia women gained a solid recruit in Zoe Cusack, currently in the rop-10 in our rankings and the winner of three AJGA open events in 2024. Auburn found their second commit of 2026 in top-25 recruit Alex Holder, who made match play at the 2024 US Junior Amateur.

Class of 2025: The big news of the week in the class of 2025 was again centered around Tennessee. Top-10 recruit Chase Kyes, who was previously committed to home-state Alabama, switched his commitment to the Vols.

10/13

Class of 2026: It's been a relatively quiet week with commitments, as many teams were in action last weekend and the number of official visits was down. UCLA received a commitment from Matthew Hull, a top-50 recruit who had two AJGA open top-4 finishes in 2024. Texas A&M snagged their second commit from Arizona in Owen Bolles, who is #28 in the AJGA rankings and has two top-3 AJGA finishes this year. The Duke women's team received verbal commitment from Spain's Martina Navarro, who has four wins in her home country in the past two years and was 2nd at this year's European Young Masters.

Class of 2025: The big news this week was Texan Henry Guan's announcement that he has re-classed to 2025 and is committed to play for Oklahoma State. The Western Amateur semi-finalist who advanced to the round of 32 at the US Amateur takes over the #1 spot in the class of 2025.