For years, AmateurGolf.com has been the home of competitive amateur golf. We cover the mid-ams, the state opens, the four-balls and the national championships. We rank the players, we chronicle the results, and we've built a community around the idea that you don't need a tour card to play golf that matters.
But if you spend enough time around amateur golf, you notice something: almost every good amateur was once a junior looking for a tee time. The road into this game runs through junior golf — and for a lot of families, the hardest part isn't hitting the shots. It's simply finding the events.
The tournaments are out there. The problem is they're scattered across dozens of tours, association calendars, PDF schedules, and registration systems that don't talk to each other. A parent in Ohio can spend an entire weekend just trying to figure out what their kid is eligible to play in the next two months. That's a barrier we wanted to knock down.
So we built JuniorGolfAmerica.com — and we made it completely free.
Every junior tournament, in one place
The idea is simple: put junior golf on one map. JuniorGolfAmerica pulls the national tours everyone knows — the AJGA, the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour, Future Champions Golf, and AmateurGolf.com's own junior events — into a single, searchable directory. You can filter by state, month, tour, and format, and every event links straight to the organizer so you can register in one click. We send you where you actually need to go.
And we mean actually free: no logins, no email sign-ups, no data collection, no advertising. You don't create an account. We don't ask for your inbox. We don't track you around the internet or sell a list. You show up, you find events, you leave. That's the entire deal.
The part nobody else does: local golf
Here's the truth about junior golf that gets lost in the highlight reels: most kids start on local tours, not national ones. The AJGA is aspirational. The junior tour two towns over is where you actually learn to compete.
So we went deep. We researched more than 280 local, state, and regional junior tours — state golf association programs, PGA Section junior tours, independent regional circuits, and national youth networks like U.S. Kids Golf, PGA Jr. League, First Tee, and Drive, Chip & Putt. Every one of them was pulled from the organizer's own site, with real ages, formats, seasons, and published costs — no invented fees, no guesswork. We built a page for all 50 states plus D.C., so a family can land on one page and see the whole ladder: where to start locally, which tours rank, and what comes next.
That's the layer that's genuinely hard to find anywhere else, and it's the one we're proudest of.
An honest guide to college golf — for every kind of player
Junior golf and college golf are the same conversation, so we built a free college golf hub to go with the schedule. But we made a decision early on: it wouldn't just be about Division I scholarships and blue-chip recruits.
Most golfers aren't headed to a D1 powerhouse, and pretending otherwise doesn't help anyone. So the hub covers the whole landscape — D1, D2, D3, NAIA, junior college, and club golf — with a straight-talking look at scoring benchmarks, the recruiting timeline, and how scholarships actually work (including the 2025 House settlement roster limits that changed the math). There's even a “where do my scores fit?” calibrator so a player can see, realistically, where they stand. Honest beats hype. Families deserve the real picture.
Guides for the people doing the driving
Alongside the tournaments, we're building a free library of guides for the people who actually make junior golf happen — parents figuring out their first tournament, international players trying to break into the U.S. junior scene, and families navigating recruiting for the first time. No paywall. No upsell required to read them.
Why free?
Because the mission comes first. We already do the work — we track events, we know the tours, we understand this ecosystem better than just about anyone. Pointing all of that at junior golf and giving it away was the easiest decision we've made.
And free means free. No logins, no email capture, no data collection, no ads — none of the things that usually turn a “free” resource into a funnel. A parent trying to find their kid a tournament shouldn't have to trade their personal information to do it. If the site helps one more kid find one more event to play this season, it's done its job.
AmateurGolf.com has always been about the players who compete for the love of it. JuniorGolfAmerica is where that love starts.
Go find your next event: JuniorGolfAmerica.com
