No player has been knocking on the door of late quite as loudly as Shun Yat Hak, who won the AJGA’s Rolex Tournament of Champions in Sunriver, Ore., on Friday.
Hak, who finished at 6-under 282 to claim a 7-shot victory over six players tied for second at Sunriver Resort, finished in the top 10 at six AJGA invitationals last year, including a T-4 showing at the Rolex. Hak, a Georgia Tech commit, has a pair of top-five finishes on the AJGA this year, including a win at the TaylorMade-adidas Golf Junior at Innisbrook.
At No. 6 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Junior Rankings, Hak was the highest-ranked player in the field.
“I'm very happy that I won the Rolex Tournament of Champions. It means a lot to me,” Hak said. “My junior golf career has been pretty good so far, but this win is the high point of it.”
Ninth-ranked Cody Proveaux, winner of last year’s Polo Junior, was among those who finished with a share of runner-up honors. Proveaux had another pair of runner-up finishes this year at the HP Boys Championship at Carlton Woods and the FootJoy Invitational.
Marcel Puyat, Jordan Niebrugge, Lee McCoy, Henry Do and Kyle Kochevar rounded out that sixsome.
Billy Kennerly, who recently won the FootJoy Invitational, finished T-22, while Beau Hossler, who at 16 was the youngest competitor in this year’s U.S. Open, finished T-16.
–D.J. Piehowski
Hak, who finished at 6-under 282 to claim a 7-shot victory over six players tied for second at Sunriver Resort, finished in the top 10 at six AJGA invitationals last year, including a T-4 showing at the Rolex. Hak, a Georgia Tech commit, has a pair of top-five finishes on the AJGA this year, including a win at the TaylorMade-adidas Golf Junior at Innisbrook.
At No. 6 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Junior Rankings, Hak was the highest-ranked player in the field.
“I'm very happy that I won the Rolex Tournament of Champions. It means a lot to me,” Hak said. “My junior golf career has been pretty good so far, but this win is the high point of it.”
Ninth-ranked Cody Proveaux, winner of last year’s Polo Junior, was among those who finished with a share of runner-up honors. Proveaux had another pair of runner-up finishes this year at the HP Boys Championship at Carlton Woods and the FootJoy Invitational.
Marcel Puyat, Jordan Niebrugge, Lee McCoy, Henry Do and Kyle Kochevar rounded out that sixsome.
Billy Kennerly, who recently won the FootJoy Invitational, finished T-22, while Beau Hossler, who at 16 was the youngest competitor in this year’s U.S. Open, finished T-16.
–D.J. Piehowski