Connor Stirling Peterson explains which non-AJGA tournaments count toward AJGA rankings. The Dustin Johnson World Junior, IMG Junior Worlds, Junior PGA Championship, and US Junior each award 225 points, the maximum possible. Top players often rank high without playing any AJGA events by competing in these high-point tournaments instead.
One of the things you'll see here is that there are events that are non-AJGA events that get Rolex points. And so some of these top players that you guys saw when I was going through the rankings, they didn't play in any AJGA events, but they still had a pretty good ranking. And, and that's in part because they're playing in these non-AJGA events. So like Dustin Johnson World Junior, great event to play in if you can get into it. UM, IMG Junior Worlds, great event to play if you can get into it, right? You can still be ranked reasonably well without playing the AJGA. So all these events are worth 225 points. It's the most that an event can be worth. So you guys saw Junior PGA a few times when I was going through that. So if you're playing in the Junior PGA, that's worth 225 points, right? So, you know, when we look at You know, the best players in the country, these are the events that they're playing in, right? So some of those are non-AJGA, some of them are AJGA. Again, the reason I'm not just saying, hey, AJGA is the only way, but I'm saying it's a, it's a decent way is because there's just so many more opportunities to play in AJGA events than all these other ones. If I told you the only opportunities you have were like playing the US Junior or playing the Junior PGA, that's kind of hard to do, right? Versus, you know, if we look at, hey, there's, 5 or 6 AJGA events you can play in, and then maybe we also get into the US Junior, we also maybe get into IMG, and we also maybe get into the Junior PGA, are we playing 4 of them? Well, we're still ranked and we're ranked probably pretty decently, and that kind of works out.
