The United States Junior Amateur Championship is one of the thirteen U.S. national golf championships organized by the United States Golf Association. It is open to amateur boys who are under 18 on the last day of the competition and have a USGA Handicap Index of 6.4 or less. The competition was established in 1948. It consists of two days of stroke play, with the leading 64 competitors then playing a match play competition to decide the champion.

The first tournament in 1948 was won by Dean Lind from a field of 495 enties. In 1999, the tournament set a record with 4,508 entries.

Tiger Woods, who won the tournament in 1991, 1992, and 1993, is the only player to have won the Junior Amateur more than once. Woods, who was 15 years and 220 days old when he won in 1991, remains the youngest champion, although the 2004 champion Sihwan Kim was only 22 days older, and his defeated final opponent David Chung was just fourteen and six months. The number of winners who have gone on to become leading professionals is quite modest. This reflects not only the young age of the competitors, but the more random results of match play tournaments compared to stroke play events. Apart from Woods, well known winners include Johnny Miller (1964) and David Duval (1989). Jack Nicklaus's best result was a semifinal loss.

The equivalent competition for girls is the United States Girls' Junior Championship.

Winners

Year	Winner	Country
2008	Cameron Peck
2007	Cory Whitsett
2006	Philip Francis
2005	Kevin Tway
2004	Sihwan Kim
2003	Brian Harman
2002	Charlie Beljan
2001	Henry Liaw
2000	Matthew Rosenfeld
1999	Hunter Mahan
1998	James Oh
1997	Jason Allred
1996	Shane McMenamy
1995	D. Scott Hailes
1994	Terry Noe
1993	Tiger Woods
1992	Tiger Woods
1991	Tiger Woods
1990	Matthew Todd
1989	David Duval
1988	Jason Widener
1987	Brett Quigley
1986	Brian Montgomery
1985	Charles Rymer
1984	Doug Martin
1983	Tim Straub
1982	Rick Marik
1981	Scott Erickson
1980	Eric Johnson
1979	Jack Larkin
1978	Donald Hurter
1977	Willie Wood
1976	Madden Hatcher III
1975	Brett Mullin
1974	David Nevatt
1973	Jack Renner
1972	Robert T. Byman
1971	Mike Brannan
1970	Gary Koch
1969	Aly Trompas
1968	Eddie Pearce
1967	John T. Crooks
1966	Gary Sanders
1965	James Masserio
1964	Johnny Miller
1963	Gregg McHatton
1962	James L. Wiechers
1961	Charles S. McDowell
1960	William L. Tindall
1959	Larry J. Lee
1958	Gordon Baker
1957	Larry Beck
1956	Harlan Stevenson
1955	Billy J. "Cotton" Dunn
1954	Foster Bradley ,Jr.
1953	Rex Baxter
1952	Donald M. Bisplinghoff
1951	K. Thomas Jacobs, Jr.
1950	Mason Rudolph
1949	Gay Brewer
1948	Dean Lind

Multiple winners

• 3 wins: Tiger Woods

Notes

External links

• Official site - most of the information is in the archive section