The Jones Cup Invitational is an annual amateur
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...
tournament. It has been played since 2001 at Ocean Forest Golf Club in
Sea Island, Georgia
Sea Island is a privately-owned, seaside resort island in Glynn County, Georgia, part of the Golden Isles of Georgia, which include St. Simons Island, Jekyll Island, Little St. Simons Island, and the mainland city of Brunswick. Since 2016, S ...
. It was originally biannual but it became an annual event in 2009. It is an individual 54-hole stroke-play competition.
It is a "category A" tournament in the
World Amateur Golf Ranking
The World Amateur Golf Ranking for men was introduced by The R&A, the governing body of the sport of golf outside the United States and Mexico, on 23 January 2007. It is based on the results of over 2,600 amateur tournaments per year (and amateurs ...
, meaning it is one of the top 30 men's amateur tournaments in the world.
World Amateur Golf Ranking - FAQs - What is an Event Rating
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Winners
*2024 Jacob Modleski
*2023 David Ford
*2022 Palmer Jackson
*2021 Ludvig Åberg
Ludvig Noa Åberg (born 31 October 1999) is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and European Tour.
Before turning professional in June 2023, Åberg had been ranked number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for a total of ...
*2020 Davis Thompson
Davis Thompson (born June 5, 1999) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He won the 2022 Rex Hospital Open and was number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking in 2020 and 2021. Thompson earned his first PGA Tour win at t ...
*2019 Akshay Bhatia
*2018 Garrett Barber
*2017 Braden Thornberry
*2016 Beau Hossler
*2015 Austin Connelly
*2014 Corey Conners
*2013 Sean Dale
*2012 Justin Thomas
Justin Louis Thomas (born April 29, 1993) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and is a former List of World Number One male golfers, world number one. In 2017, Thomas experienced a breakout year, winning five PGA Tour e ...
*2011 John Peterson
*2010 Patrick Reed
Patrick Nathaniel Reed (born August 5, 1990) is an American professional golfer. He has nine tournament victories on the PGA Tour, including one major championship, the 2018 Masters Tournament, and two World Golf Championships, the 2014 WGC-C ...
*2009 Kyle Stanley
*2007 Luke List
*2005 Nicholas Thompson
*2003 Gregg Jones
*2001 D. J. Trahan
References
External links
Official site
Amateur golf tournaments in the United States
Golf tournaments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Recurring sporting events established in 2001
2001 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
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