Fact Sheet

July 23 - 28
Boone Valley Golf Club
Augusta, Mo.

PAR AND YARDAGE – Boone Valley Golf Club is set at 6,810/6,894 yards and par is 36-35—71.

THE ARCHITECT – P.B. Dye designed the course, which opened in 1992.

COURSE SETUP:

Fairways –Cut to approximately ½ inch
Tees -- Cut to 4/10 inch
Intermediate rough -- Cut to 1 inch; 6 feet wide
Primary rough – Cut to 4 inches
Putting greens – USGA Stimpmeter reading at 10-10 ½ feet
Collars and run-off areas around putting greens – Cut to 4/10 inch (width varies)
Fairway width – Approximately 30 yards on most holes

The Championship setup will result in new USGA Course Rating™ of 74.0 and Slope Rating® of 139.

ENTRIES – A total of 3,106 entries were accepted for the 2007 championship. The championship is open to male amateur golfers who will not have reached their 18^th birthday on or before July 23, 2007, and who have a USGA Handicap Index not exceeding 6.4. Entries closed June 6. The 2007 championship was the 12th consecutive time that entries have topped 3,000. The largest entry was 4,508 in 1999.

THE SCHEDULE – Following 36 holes of stroke play (July 23-24), the field will be trimmed to the lowest 64 scorers who will advance to match play. From there, the schedule is as follows:

• July 25 (Wednesday) – First round, match play
• July 26 (Thursday) – Second and third rounds, match play
• July 27 (Friday) – Quarterfinal and semifinal rounds, match play
• July 28 (Saturday) – Final round, match play (36 holes)

FREE ADMISSION – Spectators are invited to attend the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship free of charge.

USGA ON THE WEB – Log on to the USGA internet site at www.usga.org/championships for the latest and most complete U.S. Junior Amateur Championship information. Real-Time Scoring will be available during the championship. Stories and photographs will also be available daily.

2006 CHAMPION – Philip Francis, who won the U.S. Junior Amateur in 2006, is 18 and not eligible to defend his title.

THE CHAMPIONSHIP FIELD AND QUALIFYING ROUNDS – Sectional qualifying will be held at 64 sites from June 18-July 3. A total of 156 golfers will advance to the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship. The closest qualifying site to Boone Valley is St. Louis Country Club (June 26)

THE CHAMPION RECEIVES –

• A gold medal and custody of the Junior Amateur Championship Trophy for the ensuing year
• An exemption from local qualifying at the 2008 U.S. Open Championship, if still an amateur
• An exemption from sectional qualifying at the 2007 U.S. Amateur Championship, if otherwise eligible
• An exemption from sectional qualifying at the 2007 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship, if otherwise eligible
• An exemption from qualifying at the 2008 British Amateur Championship

PROMINENT PLAYERS IN U.S. JUNIOR AMATEUR HISTORY –

• Gay Brewer – Champion in 1949
• David Duval – Champion in 1989
• Al Geiberger – Runner-up in 1954
• Charles Howell – Runner-up in 1996
• Trevor Immelman – Runner-up in 1997
• Gary Koch – Champion in 1970
• Hunter Mahan – Champion in 1999
• Johnny Miller – Champion in 1964 (U.S. Open winner in 1973)
• Ryan Moore – Runner-up in 2000
• Andy North – Runner-up in 1967
• Jay Sigel – Runner-up in 1961
• Scott Simpson – Runner-up in 1972 (U.S. Open winner in 1987)
• Ken Venturi – Runner–up in 1948 (U.S. Open winner in 1964)
• Camilo Villegas – Runner-up in 1999
• Willie Wood – Champion in 1977
• Tiger Woods – Champion in 1991, 1992 and 1993 (U.S. Open winner in 2000, 2002)

TIGER WOODS AND THE U.S. JUNIOR – Tiger Woods is the only three-time U.S. Junior Amateur champion (1991, 1992, 1993) and the only player to have won the championship more than once. With eight USGA championships to his credit, Woods stands tied with JoAnne Gunderson Carner and Jack Nicklaus in second-place behind Bob Jones with nine. He won the 1991 U.S. Junior at age 15 to become the youngest male USGA champion in history. He still holds that record.

(NOTE—This segment is taken from the Honolulu Advertiser) Tiger Woods never hesitates when asked what he believes has been his greatest golf achievement to date.

"Winning the first of my three straight U.S. junior amateur titles in 1991," is his constant reply. "I was 15 years of age playing kids three years older. And I was four down with five to play (against a fine player called Brad Zwetschke) in the final before winning at the 19th at Bay Hill," he explains.

USGA AND BOONE VALLEY – This is the first USGA championship to be played at Boone Valley but it is the 15th USGA championship in the state of Missouri. The last USGA championship in Missouri was the 2005 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links at Swope Memorial Golf Course in Kansas City. The Junior Amateur is making its first stop in the state.

BOONE VALLEY: The club hosted the Boone Valley Classic from 1996-2000 and the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Match Play in 2001. It counts five-time USGA champion Hale Irwin among its members, as well as three-time U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur champion Ellen Port of St. Louis and U.S. Mid-Amateur champions Jim Holtgrieve of St. Louis and John "Spider" Miller of Bloomington, Ind.

USGA/AJGA PARTNERSHIP – The USGA and the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) are partners in developing junior golfers into the game’s leaders for the future. The USGA will present a President’s Youth Leadership Club Award to a top boy and girl each year at the Rolex Tournament of Champions. The USGA will also help the AJGA administrative load by providing four paid interns each year.

HISTORY – The U.S. Junior Amateur was first played in 1948. The first Junior Amateur was played at the University of Michigan Golf Course and drew 495 entries. The starting field of 128 players was determined by sectional qualifying rounds at 41 sites. Dean Lind of Rockford, Ill., was the first champion. Lind defeated Ken Venturi of San Francisco, a future U.S. Open champion, in the final.

By 1963, entries had surged to 2,230, a record for the 14th consecutive year. At the time, there was no handicap limitation for entrants. That changed in 1964 when a handicap limit of 10 strokes was introduced.

The Junior Amateur is among the most difficult of all USGA championships to win, because of the age limit and the number of fine young players who enter each year. Only one player, Tiger Woods, has won the Junior Amateur more than once, winning in 1991, 1992, and 1993. In fact, only five players have reached the finals more than once. Woods, who was 15 years, six months, and 28 days old when he won in 1991, remains the youngest champion.

JACK NICKLAUS AND THE JUNIOR AMATEUR – The Junior Amateur is the only USGA championship for which Jack Nicklaus has been eligible that he did not win at least once. Nicklaus qualified for a Junior Amateur five times (for the first time at age 12) but his best finish came in 1956, when he was a semifinalist.

TELEVISION – Golf Channel will broadcast the semifinal and final matches on June 28. The semifinals will be shown on tape delay from midnight to 2 a.m. and the championship will air live from 4-6 p.m. (EDT).

FUTURE JUNIORS AMATEURS – The Junior Amateur will be conducted at Shoal Creek in Birmingham, Ala., from July 21-26, 2008, and at Trump National in Bedminster, N.J., from July 20-25, 2009 concurrently with the U.S. Girls’ Junior.

MEDIA INFORMATION – For more information on the 2007 U.S. Junior Amateur, please contact Pete Kowalski of the USGA media relations staff at (908) 234-2300 x 1322. He will be on site at Boone Valley Golf Club as of July 21. The media center phone number is 908-382-6577. Kowalski can also be reached by cell phone at (908) 216-8435.