| Toyota Junior Golf World Cup | |
| Location: | Toyota City, Aichi, Japan |
| Establishment: | 1992 |
| Course: | Chukyo Golf Club – Ishino Course |
| Org: | Chukyo TV Broadcasting Junior Orange Bowl (Co-organizer) Japan Golf Association (Tournament Operation Committee) |
| Format: | 72-hole stroke play |
| Month Played: | June |
The Toyota Junior Golf World Cup (Japanese: 世界ジュニアゴルフ推進会) is a junior golf championship held each summer in Japan for national teams of golfers 18 and under from around the globe.
Qualifying events are held on six continents to determine the 12 boys’ teams and nine girls’ teams who compete for the annual championship. Chukyo Golf Club, outside Nagoya, has served as the host course for 16 of the past 17 editions.
Toyota Motor Corporation has been the Junior Golf World Cup's title sponsor since 2002.
The Junior Golf World Cup, founded by Yasumasa Tagashira, Eiji Tagashira and William Kerdyk, was first contested in 1992.[1] A total of 98 golfers from 14 nations competed at Taisha Country Club in Izumo.
The United States won the inaugural title, with Justin Roof the first medalist. Both would retain their crowns a year later. Host Japan claimed its first title in 1994, with a team that included future PGA Tour professional Ryuji Imada.
In 1997, the tournament expanded from a three-day event to four days. A girls’ division was added in 2014.[2]
The tournament format is 72 holes of stroke play over four days, with two scores from each nation’s three-player roster counting toward the team total. Before 2024, boys’ rosters were made up of four players, with three scores counting.
Continental/regional qualifiers are held each winter and spring to determine the 21 teams that go to Japan. In all, more than 70 countries participate in the qualifying process.
The Toyota Junior Golf World Cup has featured such future major champions as Hideki Matsuyama, Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Smith, Justin Rose, Henrik Stenson, Trevor Immelman and Danny Willett. In 2001, South Africa won with a roster that included future major winners Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel.[3]
Viktor Hovland, who won the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup in 2023, played the Toyota Junior World Cup three times from 2014-16. Other participants that have won PGA Tour, European Tour or LIV Golf events include Joaquín Niemann, Camilo Villegas, Russell Henley, Hunter Mahan, Satoshi Kodaira, Branden Grace, Im Sung-jae, Brendon de Jonge, Alex Norén, Ludvig Åberg and David Puig.[4]
Though the girls’ division has yet to produce a major champion, three alumnae won the Augusta National Women's Amateur in consecutive years — Tsubasa Kajitani, Anna Davis and Rose Zhang.
Zhang and Mone Inami are LPGA tour winners, while Saki Baba captured the 2022 U.S. Women’s Amateur.
| Year | Team | Individual | Ref | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||||
| 2024 |  Mao Matsuyama |  Billy Davis | William Jennings Minsu Kim Gunwoong Park | ||||||
| 2023 | Kaito Sato | Jaewon Lee | Billy Davis Taishi Moto | [5] | |||||
| 2022 |  Albert Hansson | Riura Matsui Minato Oshima Filippo Ponzano | |||||||
| 2021 | Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | [6] | |||||||
| 2020 | [7] | ||||||||
| 2019 |  Samuel Simpson | Martin Vorster |  Christopher Vandette | ||||||
| 2018 |  Rasmus Højgaard | Nicolai Højgaard | Ludvig Åberg | ||||||
| 2017 | Frankie Capan III |  Kosuke Hamamoto | Gustav Frimodt | ||||||
| 2016 | Joaquín Niemann | Dylan Naidoo |  Max Schmitt Norman Xiong Takumi Kanaya Marc Hammer Sadom Kaewkajana | ||||||
| 2015 | Ren Okazaki | Joaquín Niemann | Takumi Kanaya Chandler Phillips Marcus Svensson | ||||||
| 2014 |  Jorge Garcia |  Brett Coletta | Joaquín Niemann | ||||||
| 2013 | Jorge Garcia | Lucas Herbert | Thriston Lawrence | ||||||
| 2012 | Viraat Badhwar | Jinichiro Kozuma | Adam Svensson | ||||||
| 2011 | Canceled due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami | ||||||||
| 2010 | Corey Connors Yosuke Asaji Lucas Bjerregaard | ||||||||
| 2009 | Lee Kyoung-hoon |  Tommy Cocha Tomohiro Umeyama Santiago Gavino | |||||||
| 2008 | Bud Cauley Anders Kristiansen | Pontus Gad | |||||||
| 2007 | Anders Kristiansen | Pan Cheng-tsung | Björn Åkesson Jesper Kennegård | ||||||
| 2006 | Marius Thorp | Naoto Nakanishi Björn Åkesson | |||||||
| 2005 | Erik Flores | Yuki Usami |  Andres Echavarria | ||||||
| 2004 | Matthew Kent | Estanislao Goya Pablo Martín Garrett Sapp | |||||||
| 2003 | Yuta Ikeda | Daisuke Yasumoto | Pablo Martín | ||||||
| 2002 | Matthew Richardson | Henry Liaw |  Sung Yong Lee | ||||||
| 2001 | Sung Yong Lee | Takamasa Yamamoto Prom Meesawat | |||||||
| 2000 | Hunter Mahan Kodai Ichihara | Matt McQuillan Sung Yong Lee | |||||||
| 1999 | Nick Dougherty | Dae-Sub Kim | Jason Hartwick | ||||||
| 1998 | Rafael Echenique | Adam Frayne | Travis Fraser | ||||||
| 1997 | David Gossett | Sung-soo Park | Phillip Rowe | ||||||
| 1996 | Sal Spallone | Keizo Yoshida | Yūsaku Miyazato | ||||||
| 1995 | Joel Kribel | Joachim Bäckström | Yumihiko Hatone | ||||||
| 1994 | Rob McMillan | Go Higaki | Ivó Giner | ||||||
| 1993 | Justin Roof | Johan Edfors Will Garner | |||||||
| 1992 | Justin Roof | Juan Nutt | Brian Newton | ||||||
| Year | Team | Individual | Ref | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||||
| 2024 | Jasmine Koo | Mamika Shinchi | Sarah Hammett Pimpisa Rubrong | ||||||
| 2023 | Yuna Araki | Anna Davis Yeonju An | |||||||
| 2022 | Miku Ueta | ||||||||
| 2021 | Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | [9] | |||||||
| 2020 | [10] | ||||||||
| 2019 | Cory Lopez Rose Zhang Cassie Porter | [11] | |||||||
| 2018 | Yuka Yasuda Sujeong Lee | Yuna Nishimura | [12] | ||||||
| 2017 | Alyaa Abdulghany | Emilia Migliaccio | [13] | ||||||
| 2016 | Mone Inami | Riri Sadoyama Alyaa Abdulghany | [14] | ||||||
| 2015 | Yumi Matsubara Hyunkyung Jo | Minami Hiruta | [15] | ||||||
| 2014 | Sojung Kim | Mizuho Konishi | [16] | ||||||
| Country | Win | 2nd | 3rd | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 5 | 3 | 17 | ||
| 5 | 7 | 2 | 14 | ||
| 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | ||
| 3 | 1 | – | 4 | ||
| 2 | 2 | – | 4 | ||
| 2 | – | 3 | 5 | ||
| 1 | 7 | 1 | 9 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| 1 | – | 1 | 2 | ||
| 1 | – | – | 1 | ||
| 1 | – | – | 1 | ||
| 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | ||
| – | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||
| – | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| – | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| – | 1 | – | 1 | ||
| – | – | 3 | 3 | ||
| – | – | 1 | 1 | ||
| – | – | 1 | 1 | ||
| Total | 30 | 30 | 31 |
| Country | Win | 2nd | 3rd | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | ||
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
| 1 | – | 1 | 2 | ||
| – | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||
| – | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| – | 1 | – | 1 | ||
| – | – | 2 | 2 | ||
| – | – | 1 | 1 | ||
| – | – | 1 | 1 | ||
| Total | 9 | 9 | 9 |