{"id":830663,"date":"2026-07-28T04:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/830663\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T04:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:34:11","slug":"miles-russell-charlie-woods-back-in-action-at-western-amateur-junior-pga-respectively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/830663\/","title":{"rendered":"Miles Russell, Charlie Woods back in action at Western Amateur, Junior PGA, respectively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the main storylines from last week\u2019s U.S. Junior Amateur are back in action this week.<\/p>\n<p>Miles Russell, who <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/usga\/news\/noah-maclauchlan-wins-us-junior-amateur-championship-over-miles-russell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lost to Noah Maclauchan in the 36-hole final<\/a> last Saturday at Saucon Valley Country Club, is among those competing in the Western Amateur, which begins Tuesday at Beverly Country Club in Chicago. Charlie Woods, who was eliminated in a 14-for-2 playoff on Wednesday morning, will be at PGA Frisco in Texas for the Junior PGA Championship, which also starts Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Russell, the world\u2019s seventh-ranked amateur, is one of five top-10 amateurs in the field for the grueling championship, which includes 72 holes of stroke play and four match-play rounds over five days. World No. 2 Tyler Watts, No. 4 Luke Poulter, No. 6 Ethan Fang and No. 8 Josiah Gilbert are also in the field. Russell will be grouped with Watts and Fang for Rounds 1-2, as all three are already part of this year\u2019s U.S. Walker Cup team.<\/p>\n<p>Russell and Watts are joined in the Western field by fellow junior players Giuseppe Puebla, Jackson Ormond, Hamilton Coleman, Preston Hage, Louis Klein and defending Junior PGA champ Lunden Esterline.<\/p>\n<p>Other Walker Cup hopefuls such as Kihei Akina, Eric Lee, Carson Bertagnole, Jacob Modleski and Mason Howell will tee it up at Beverly as well.<\/p>\n<p>Woods, who is grouped for the first two rounds of the Junior PGA with Ainslie Stanford and Rory Asselta, is coming off his best U.S. Junior finish (T-63), though his championship ended after he made bogey on the first playoff hole, during which <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/usga\/news\/charlie-woods-u-s-junior-run-ends-with-bogey-in-playoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a spectator\u2019s phone camera clicked in Woods\u2019 backswing<\/a> on his third shot into the par-5 green.<\/p>\n<p>Other notables in the Junior PGA field include Xander Mulder, the son of former MLB pitcher Mark Mulder; Eli Wessel, who got through that U.S. Junior playoff before losing to Russell in the first round of match play; Jaden Soong, who is the highest-ranked player in the field at No. 10 in the AJGA rankings, two spots ahead of fellow 2028 Rory Asselta; plus several other top 2028s, including Chase Bauer, Chase Hughes and JP Lynch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of the main storylines from last week\u2019s U.S. Junior Amateur are back in action this week. Miles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-830663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}