The United States Golf Association announced at its Annual Meeting in New York that the medal presented to the U.S. Amateur champion and the trophy awarded to the U.S. Junior Amateur winner will be renamed in Woods\u2019 honor. Beginning with this year\u2019s championships at Merion Golf Club and Saucon Valley Country Club, winners will receive the Tiger Woods Medal and Tiger Woods Trophy.<\/p>\n
The recognition reflects a record that still stands untouched. Woods remains the only player to win three consecutive U.S. Junior Amateur titles (1991\u20131993) and three straight U.S. Amateur championships (1994\u20131996). Those six victories launched a career that would produce nine USGA championships, tying Bob Jones for the most in history.<\/p>\n
\u201cTiger Woods redefined what was possible in amateur golf,\u201d said USGA CEO Mike Whan. \u201cHis achievements didn\u2019t just set records \u2014 they set a new standard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Woods now joins an exclusive circle of figures whose names define the game\u2019s biggest honors. The U.S. Open gold medal bears the name of Jack Nicklaus, while the U.S. Women\u2019s Open medal honors Mickey Wright. The U.S. Women\u2019s Amateur champion receives the JoAnne Carner Medal, introduced this year.<\/p>\n
Across the collegiate game, the Annika Award recognizes the top female player, the Ben Hogan Award and Fred Haskins Award honor the leading male collegiate golfer, and the Jack Nicklaus Award is presented to the PGA Tour Player of the Year and elite NCAA performers. The Bob Jones Award remains the USGA\u2019s highest honor for sportsmanship, while the Patty Berg Award celebrates lasting contributions to the game.<\/p>\n
With his name now etched alongside golf\u2019s greats, every future U.S. Amateur and Junior Amateur champion will carry a piece of Woods\u2019 legacy forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States Golf Association announced at its Annual Meeting in New York that the medal presented to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[16669,16668,64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-511077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-amateur-golf-news","tag-amateurgolf-com","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}