Recruiting Report

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

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.

10/6

Class of 2026: Vanderbilt added another one our top-5 athletes to their recruiting class, as Luke Colton announced his commitment. Colton has had the best breakout season of this class, winning the Terra Cotta amateur and the Byron Nelson Junior Championship, advancing to the round of 16 at the US Junior, and carding three top-7 AJGA Invitational finishes. Athena Singh will add her talent to the women's team at Houston, as the top-25 recruit had one AJGA win & two runner-up finishes in 2024. Floridian Sophia Dyer will be staying in her home state, as the top-20 recruit and Florida Women's Amateur champion has committed to the Florid Gators. Dyer is a two-time US Women's Amateur qualifier. The Clemson men's team has added two top-30 recruits to their future stable, as Gabriel Holtz and Daniel McBrien announced their commitments to the Tigers this week. Holtz has found local success in Florida tournaments, while McBrien was the runner-up at the 2023 North & South Junior Amateur and the 2024 Sea Pines Junior Heritage. The Virginia Cavaliers notched their first 2026 recruit in Canadian Jager Pain, who currently sits at #35 in JGS rankings. Pain is the 2024 Golf Canada NextGen Ontario champion.

9/29

Class of 2026: Oklahoma found its first recruit in this class in Nebraska's Coltrane Mittag, the 2023 North & South Junior Amateur champion. Mittag also finished 4th at the 2023 Bobby Chapman and snagged a top-10 finish at the 2024 AJGA Mayakoba Invitational. He is the 11th ranked 2026 golfer on JGS. The UCLA women's added a top-10 recruit with Canadian Michelle Xing, who had numerous wins in 2024. Her victories include two AJGA open events, the Golf Ontario Junior Spring Classic, and the Golf Canada NextGen Ontario Championship. Another recruit who will make California her home is Washington's Angela Zhang, who will join the USC Trojans in 2026. Zhang is a top-15 recruit who owns two AJGA Invitational top-10s and four other AJGA top-3 finishes in the past year. Announcing her commitment today to Ole Miss was the #5 ranked player on JGS, Lisa Herman of Oklahoma. Herman shows tournament consistency with two AJGA Invitational top-6 and two top-15 finishes in the past year. She also had two AJGA open runner-up finishes in 2024.

Class of 2025: The late Ivy commitments are starting to arrive, as New Yorker Sophia Li announced her commitment to attend Dartmouth. Li is a top-30 recruit with two wins in her home state in 2024. On the men's side, top-50 recruit Tristan Wieland has committed to Michigan.

9/23

Class of 2026: Texas and Auburn picked up some big-time recruits this week, as JGS #9 ranked Sterling Hurd committed to the Longhorns, and #13 ranked Smith Summerlin committed to the Tigers. Texas now has two top-20 recruits joining them in 2026. Hurd's top accomplishments this year have been a 3rd place finish at the Western Junior and 6th place at the Dustin Johnson World Junior. Summerlin has found some amateur success this year, with a 4th place at the Carolinas Amateur and an additional 4th at the Eastern Amateur. Texas A&M received a commitment from top-20 recruit Landon Ashcraft, and the Colorado women's team notched a top-50 commit in Izzy Piazza. Ashcraft won two JGAA events in 2024 and was 2nd at the AJGA Under Armour/Jordan Spieth Championship. Pepperdine improves its team in 2026 with the future addition of top-15 prospect Irene Kim, who won the 2024 AJGA KJ Choi Foundation Junior Championship and was 5th at the AJGA Ping Invitational last fall. The Northwestern women gained a top-30 commit in Rebecca Wang.