The Toyota Junior Golf World Cup ( ja, 世界ジュニアゴルフ推進会) is an annual world
amateur
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team
golf
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championship for youths under 18 organized in Japan with
Toyota Motor Corporation as title sponsor. The inaugural event for boys was held in 1992 and for girls in 2014.
Past participants include
Hideki Matsuyama,
Branden Grace
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,
Justin Rose
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,
Henrik Stenson
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He is the first male Swedish and first male Nordic major champion, having won the 2016 Open Championship at Royal Troon with a major championship record score of 264. ...
,
Hunter Mahan
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,
Russell Henley,
Trevor Immelman,
Danny Willett
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,
Brendon de Jonge
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Virginia Tech career
De Jonge was a two-time All-America selection by the Golf Coaches of ...
,
Alex Norén,
Yūsaku Miyazato
is a Japanese professional golfer. In 2006 he became the first modern-era golfer to make two hole in one shots in the same round of a PGA Tour event, at the Reno-Tahoe Open in Nevada.
Early life and amateur career
Miyazato was born in Higashi, ...
,
Yuta Ikeda,
Satoshi Kodaira
is a Japanese professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and Japan Golf Tour.
While playing on the Japan Golf Tour, Kodaira has had seven victories, including two Japan Golf Tour majors, the 2013 Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills a ...
,
Camilo Villegas
Camilo Villegas (; born 7 January 1982) is a Colombian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.
Early years
Villegas was born in Medellín, Colombia, and took up golf as a child. After several different National Junior Championships in Co ...
,
Jon Rahm,
Hideto Tanihara
is a Japanese professional golfer. He has won 17 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour.
Professional career
Tanihara has won 14 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour and featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking. His highest ranking ...
,
Shunsuke Sonoda and
Yosuke Asaji
Yosuke Asaji (born 24 May 1993) is a Japanese professional golfer.
Professional career
Asaji won the 2019 Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup Golf (a co-sanctioned event with the Asian Tour), to qualify for the 2019 Open Championship. He earned entry into ...
. In 2001, South Africa won the event with a team that featured future
major
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champions
Louis Oosthuizen and
Charl Schwartzel.
Format
Continental/regional qualifiers are held to limit the field to 24 teams. The tournament format is 72 holes of
stroke play
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over four days with teams of four (boys) and three (girls). The winning team is presented with the Toyota Cup.
Results
Boys' tournament
Source:
Girls' tournament
Source:
Results summary
Boys' tournament
Girls' tournament
See also
*
World Junior Girls Championship
References
External links
Pasts results on the Junior Golf World Cup's site*{{Official, https://www.wjgtc.org/
Amateur golf tournaments
Team golf tournaments
Junior golf tournaments
Golf tournaments in Asia
Recurring sporting events established in 1992