The Toyota Junior Golf World Cup () is a junior golf championship held each summer in Japan for national teams of golfers 18 and under from around the globe.
Qualifying events are held on six continents to determine the 12 boys’ teams and nine girls’ teams who compete for the annual championship. Chukyo Golf Club, outside Nagoya, has served as the host course for 16 of the past 17 editions.
Toyota has been the Junior Golf World Cup's title sponsor since 2002.
History & Format The Junior Golf World Cup, founded by Yasumasa Tagashira, Eiji Tagashira and William Kerdyk, was first contested in 1992. A total of 98 golfers from 14 nations competed at Taisha Country Club in Izumo.
The United States won the inaugural title, with Justin Roof the first medalist. Both would retain their crowns a year later. Host Japan claimed its first title in 1994, with a team that included future PGA Tour professional Ryuji Imada.
In 1997, the tournament expanded from a three-day event to four days. A girls’ division was added in 2014.
The tournament format is 72 holes of stroke play over four days, with two scores from each nation’s three-player roster counting toward the team total. Before 2024, boys’ rosters were made up of four players, with three scores counting.
Continental/regional qualifiers are held each winter and spring to determine the 21 teams that go to Japan. In all, more than 70 countries participate in the qualifying process.
Future stars The Toyota Junior Golf World Cup has featured such future major champions as Hideki Matsuyama, Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Smith, Justin Rose, Henrik Stenson, Trevor Immelman and Danny Willett. In 2001, South Africa won with a roster that included future major winners Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel.
Viktor Hovland, who won the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup in 2023, played the Toyota Junior World Cup three times from 2014-16. Other participants that have won PGA Tour, European Tour or LIV Golf events include Joaquín Niemann, Camilo Villegas, Russell Henley, Hunter Mahan, Satoshi Kodaira, Branden Grace, Im Sung-jae, Brendon de Jonge, Alex Norén, Ludvig Åberg and David Puig.
The girls’ division saw its first major champion when Japan's Ayaka Furue won the 2024 Evian Championship. In addition, three alumnae won the Augusta National Women's Amateur in consecutive years — Tsubasa Kajitani, Anna Davis and Rose Zhang.
Zhang, Linnea Ström and Mone Inami are LPGA tour winners, while Saki Baba captured the 2022 U.S. Women's Amateur.
Of the 60 men's golfers entered at the 2024 Paris Olympics, 40 had played in the Junior Golf World Cup.
Results Boys' tournament YearTeam IndividualRefGold SilverBronzeGold SilverBronze2026 Tomás Restrepo Roelof Craig Settawut Kenanan Austin Krahn2025 Tomás Restrepo Taisei Nagasaki Brooks Simmons2024 Mao Matsuyama Billy Davis William Jennings Kim Min-su Park Gun-woong 2023 Kaito Sato Lee Jae-won Billy Davis Taishi Moto2022 Albert Hansson Riura Matsui Minato Oshima Filippo Ponzano 2021Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic20202019 Samuel Simpson Martin Vorster Christopher Vandette2018 Rasmus Højgaard Nicolai Højgaard Ludvig Åberg2017 Frankie Capan III Kosuke Hamamoto Gustav Frimodt2016 Joaquín Niemann Dylan Naidoo Max Schmitt Norman Xiong Takumi Kanaya Marc Hammer Sadom Kaewkajana2015 Ren Okazaki Joaquín Niemann Takumi Kanaya Chandler Phillips Marcus Svensson2014 Jorge Garcia Brett Coletta Joaquín Niemann2013 Jorge Garcia Lucas Herbert Thriston Lawrence2012 Viraat Badhwar Jinichiro Kozuma Adam Svensson2011Canceled due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami2010 Corey Connors Yosuke Asaji Lucas Bjerregaard2009 Lee Kyoung-hoon Tommy Cocha Tomohiro Umeyama Santiago Gavino2008 Bud Cauley Anders Kristiansen Pontus Gad2007 Anders Kristiansen Pan Cheng-tsung Björn Åkesson Jesper Kennegård2006 Marius Thorp Naoto Nakanishi Björn Åkesson2005 Erik Flores Yuki Usami Andrés Echevarría2004 Matthew Kent Estanislao Goya Pablo Martín Garrett Sapp2003 Yuta Ikeda Daisuke Yasumoto Pablo Martín 2002 Matthew Richardson Henry Liaw Sung Yong Lee2001 Sung Yong Lee Takamasa Yamamoto Prom Meesawat2000 Hunter Mahan Kodai Ichihara Matt McQuillan Sung Yong Lee1999 Nick Dougherty Kim Dae-sub Jason Hartwick1998 Rafael Echenique Adam Frayne Travis Fraser1997 David Gossett Park Sung-soo Phillip Rowe1996 Sal Spallone Keizo Yoshida Yūsaku Miyazato1995 Joel Kribel Joakim Bäckström Yumihiko Hatone1994 Rob McMillan Go Higaki Ivó Giner1993 Justin Roof Johan Edfors Will Garner1992 Justin Roof Juan Nutt Brian Newton Source:
Girls' tournament YearTeam IndividualRefGold SilverBronzeGold SilverBronze2026 Anna Iwanaga Park Seo-jin Song Ji-min 2025 Mamika Shinchi Kritchanya Kaopattanaskul Shauna Liu2024 Jasmine Koo Mamika Shinchi Sarah Hammett Pimpisa Rubrong 2023 Yuna Araki Anna Davis An Yeon-ju 2022 Andrea Revuelta Cayetana Fernández Miku Ueta2021Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic20202019 Cory Lopez Rose Zhang Cassie Porter 2018 Yuka Yasuda Lee Su-jeong Yuna Nishimura2017 Alyaa Abdulghany Yuna Nishimura Emilia Migliaccio2016 Kristen Gillman Mone Inami Riri Sadoyama Alyaa Abdulghany2015 Yumi Matsubara Jo Hyun-kyung Minami Hiruta2014 Kim So-jung Linnea Ström Mizuho Konishi Source:
Results summary Boys' tournament Country Win 2nd 3rd Total 9 7 3 19 7 7 2 16 3 1 4 8 3 1 – 4 2 2 – 4 2 – 3 5 1 7 1 9 1 3 4 8 1 1 2 4 1 – 1 2 1 – – 1 1 – – 1 – 1 4 5 – 1 1 2 – 1 1 2 – 1 – 1 – – 3 3 – – 1 1 – – 1 1 – – 1 1Total 32 33 32
Girls' tournament Country Win 2nd 3rd Total 5 5 1 11 3 1 2 6 1 3 1 5 1 2 – 3 1 – 1 2 – 1 1 2 – – 2 2 – – 1 1 – – 1 1Total 11 12 10
See also World Junior Girls Golf Championship
References
External links Pasts results on the Junior Golf World Cup's site