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That kids grow up so fast In Europe, CALUM HILL
these days is as true a cliché and 2. MATTHEW
in golf as it is anywhere else. JORDAN look like very
Elite amateurs are ready to hot prospects stepping up
win the moment they turn from the Challenge Tour.
professional. Most of them Hill won three times in two
went through the American years on the second tier
college system, so they’re and Jordan played
essentially living life as a alongside MacIntyre in the
tour pro and competing at 2017 Walker Cup and is
an extremely high level especially dangerous on
before they cash their first links courses. Danish twins
cheque. Last year, we saw 2. RASMUS AND
Viktor Hovland, Matt Wolff, 3. NICOLAI HØJGAARD
Bob MacIntyre and Kurt also have big futures.
Kitayama explode into our 1. Keep an eye on Asia, too.
consciousness, but who Japan’s TAKUMI
comes next in 2020? KANAYA is the World
Amateur Number One, but
1. SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER he’s already proven his pro
is the man to watch on the credentials by winning on
PGA Tour. The Texan played the Japanese Tour in
in the Walker Cup in 2017 November and it won’t be
and won twice last season long until he enters the pro
as he topped the Korn Ferry ranks. JOO-HYUNG KIM
Tour. He’s taken to the top is already a pro at just 17
tier like a duck to water, 3. years old, and he recorded
with three top-10s and no three wins and nine top-
missed cuts in seven starts. 10s in 20 starts across Asia
He’s an excellent ball-striker in 2019.
and he makes lots of birdies.
Don’t bet against him mak-
ing a decent run at a Ryder In the ladies’ game,
Cup spot. 4. JENNIFER KUPCHO
Norwegian KRISTOFFER 4. is the next Next Big Thing
VENTURA played along- from America. She won
side Hovland and Wolff at the inaugural Augusta
Oklahoma State and he’s National Women’s
already got two professional Amateur and finished tied-
wins. Both those trophies 2nd in just her third major
have come on the second- as a pro at the 2019 Evian.
tier Korn Ferry Tour, but 5. Twenty-year-old German
they’ve proved he knows 5. ESTHER HENSELEIT
exactly how to get the job finished runner-up four
done when he’s in conten- times in her rookie season
tion and he’ll no doubt on the LET and a first win
be inspired by joining his in 2020 could open the
former college teammates floodgates.
on the PGA Tour.
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