Junior Orange Bowl International ’25 in Florida

Giovanni Bernardi and Giovanni Binaghi defend the Italian colors in the Junior Orange Bowl International Golf Championship, the prestigious youth event, now in its 61st edition, scheduled from January 3 to 6 on the Biltmore Golf Course in Coral Gables, near Miami, Florida. There are 87 competitors at the start, 48 boys and 39 girls. Guia Vittoria Acutis and Alice Alexandra Negroni will participate in the women’s competition on a personal basis.

Junior Orange Bowl, results

In the men’s tournament, the American Darren Zhou defends his title in a context that includes four other elements in the top ten last year, his compatriots Bryson Hughes (third), Tristan Wieland and Lorenzo Rodriguez (seventh) and the Canadian Eric Zhao (sixth), but the Spaniard Fernando Cobo and the Englishman Harry Cox will also be worth watching.

In the women’s field, the American Kayla Bryant, the reigning champion. will have among the most aggressive competitors, who will try to prevent her from repeating, the Icelandic Perla Sigurbrand (fourth in 2024), the Czech Annika Kohoutek (sixth) and the Canadian Eileen Park (eighth) in addition to the other American Amber Lee, the German Sophie Renner and the Japanese Ayana Hiranaka, to name a few in the very large number of possible protagonists. As for the four Italians, they all have excellent chances of competing at a high level. With the team Alberto Binaghi, Technical Commissioner of the National Amateur Men’s Team.

Three Italian winners: Marco Durante, who won in 1979, Renato Paratore (2013) and Andrea Romano (2019), while Marco Florioli was ranked second in 2023. The roll of honor includes the names of many players who have written important pages in the professional world, including Americans Tiger Woods, Andy North, Craig Stadler, Hal Sutton, Mark Calcavecchia, Bob Tway, Billy Mayfair, Willie Wood and the Spaniard José Maria Olazabal.

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