Jackson Van Paris
Class
Junior
Hometown
Pinehurst, N.C.
High School
Pinecrest
Major
Undeclared
As a Junior (2023-24)
- Played in all four tournaments during the 2023 fall season
- Comes into the 2024 spring season ranked 30th in the World Amateur Golf Rankings
- Won the St Andrews Link Collegiate individual title by carding 9-under 131 in two rounds of stroke play
- Helped Vanderbilt win the Valero Texas Collegiate, the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational and the St Andrews Links Collegiate
- Held a scoring average of 70.27 during the 2023 fall season
- Shot under par in six rounds
- Shot a career-best 4-under 66 in Round 2 at the St Andrews Links
- Opened the season by finishing in a tie for eighth at the Valero Texas Collegiate with a three-round score of 3-under 213
As a Sophomore (2022-23)
- Division I PING All-Region (Southeast)
- SEC Academic Honor Roll
- Won the Sunnehanna Amateur with a 13-under-par 267 72-hole total
- Tied for sixth at the John Hayt Invitational at 4-under-par
- At the Mason Rudolph Championship, tied for 11th at 3-under-par
- Tied for 13th at the Sunnehanna Amateur with a four-day total of 281
As a Freshman (2021-22)
- Tied for 16th at the Jones Cup
- First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll
The Van Paris File
- Four-time Rolex Junior All American
- In 2018 at the age of 14 became the youngest player to win a match at the U.S. Amateur since Bobby Jones in 1916
- Ranked seventh nationally by Golfweek and fourth by Rolex
- Won 10th annual Junior Invitational at Sage Valley by shooting 9-under par with rounds of 71-69-67 – including 4-under on his final nine holes of the tournament
- Captured 2020 Sea Pines Junior Heritage
- Won back-to-back AJGA Simplify Boys Invitational titles
- Member of the 2017 ACDS Junior All Star Team
- 2020 AJGA Player Representative
- AJGA Foundation Board Member
- Four-time NCISAA all-state selection
- Competed in 2017 Evian Junior Cup in France where he won the individual competition and led United States team to victory
- Part of team titles with United States in 2019 Junior President’s Cup, with East Team at 2019 Wyndham Cup and with The O’Neal School in NCISAA state golf tournament
- Organized and hosted Carolina Cup through AJGA’s Leadership Links program raising more than $250,000 for charity