{"id":884734,"date":"2026-09-08T18:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884734\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T18:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:24:10","slug":"college-phenom-turned-pro-prodigy-earns-his-spot-on-the-presidents-cup-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884734\/","title":{"rendered":"College Phenom Turned Pro Prodigy Earns His Spot On The Presidents Cup Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/golf\/YouTube\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WATCH: The Dan Evans Show discusses Jackson Koivun&#8217;s selection to the U.S. Presidents Cup team<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"9z\">Jackson Koivun\u2019s rise through professional golf has happened fast.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"a4\">A few months ago, he was still playing college golf at Auburn. Now, at just 21 years old, he is heading to Medinah as a member of the U.S. Presidents Cup team after being selected as one of Brandt Snedeker\u2019s six captain\u2019s picks.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"a9\">And it is hard to say he has not earned it.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"ae\">Koivun won the 3M Open in just his third start as a professional, beating Scottie Scheffler by three shots and setting the tournament scoring record at 25-under par.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"aj\">From there, he kept proving he belonged. Koivun became the first PGA Tour University No. 1 or Accelerated graduate to reach the FedEx Cup Playoffs in the same season he accepted Tour membership.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"ao\">The only real question was whether Snedeker would trust someone this young on a stage this big.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"at\">He did.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"ay\">Snedeker said he had a \u201cgut feeling\u201d about Koivun and made it clear he was not picking him just because of his potential. He believes Koivun is already one of the 12 best available American players.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"b3\">Koivun will be one of three U.S. rookies at Medinah and the second-youngest American ever selected to a Presidents Cup team, behind only Jordan Spieth in 2013.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"b8\">College golf a few months ago. A PGA Tour win this summer. Team USA in September.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-12\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"bd\">Koivun\u2019s professional career has barely started, and he is already getting one of the biggest opportunities in golf.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow si.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=si.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" preventdefault:click=\"\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\" on:pointerenter=\"q-CC7hVSUz.js#s_1NOcOpHWmT0\" on:touchstart=\"q-Bed8N8OA.js#s_R8AiGTDeM28\" on:focus=\"q-Babd4LWH.js#s_gxiTM6qMMu8\" on:click=\"q-DGF4b7Z9.js#s_lDqay9E5m5g[0]\" q:id=\"bj\">Follow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATCH: The Dan Evans Show discusses Jackson Koivun&#8217;s selection to the U.S. Presidents Cup team Jackson Koivun\u2019s rise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-884734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884734","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=884734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}