Hannah O'Sullivan: Rolex Junior Player of the Year

Rolex Junior Players of the Year:
Hannah O'Sullivan | Philip Barbaree
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Rolex Junior All-America Teams:
Girls  | Boys

Hannah O’Sullivan, 17, won eight times in 2015 – three AJGA wins, one Symetra Tour victory, a win at the U.S. Women’s Amateur, and she was a member of three winning teams: the West Team at Wyndham Cup, the U.S. Team at the PING Junior Solheim Cup, and the U.S. Team at the Sprint International.

She became just the third girl ever to win the Rolex Tournament of Champions and Rolex Girls Junior Championship in the same season, and she won the Rolex Tournament of Champions with a tournament-record score of 14-under-par 274. A senior at Hamilton High School, O’Sullivan was also named an AJGA Scholastic Junior All-American for her outstanding academic achievements. She is No. 1 in the Polo Golf Rankings, No. 2 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, and has verbally committed to Southern Cal.

“I feel so honored and humbled to be named the Rolex Junior Player of the Year. I am so grateful for everything the AJGA has done for me and for junior golf; the AJGA has truly changed my life,” O’Sullivan said. “It has been the best year of my life so far and to be named Rolex Junior Player of the Year and achieve this goal I've had for the last several years means so much and I feel incredibly blessed and thankful.”

• Won the Symetra Tour’s Gateway Classic at Longbow Golf Club (67-65-69 – 201), becoming the youngest winner in the Tour’s history at 16 years, 9 months, 11 days
• Won the U.S. Women’s Amateur, defeating Sierra Brooks in the championship match, 3 and 2
• Carded a 2-1-0 record as a member of the victorious U.S. PING Junior Solheim Cup Team
• Made her third appearance at Wyndham Cup and helped the West Team retain the Cup for the third year in a row (2015 record: 1-0-3, career record: 5-3-4)
• Competed in the Evian Championship (T50, 76-68-74-71 – 289) and U.S. Women’s Open (T53, 72-71-74-71 – 288)
• The only player to be named both a Rolex Junior All-American and AJGA Scholastic Junior All-American in 2015 
• 70.13 scoring average in AJGA tournaments (16 rounds)

 

Always so honored to represent the USA. Thank you so much to @pingtour, @ajgagolf, and everyone who made this incredible week possible. A huge thank you as well to Ms. JoAnne Carner and @katiejotahara for being amazing captains and to the team for being the best teammates anyone could ever ask for. Let's go USA!! ???????????? #JuniorSolheimCup

A photo posted by Hannah O'Sullivan (@hannah_sos) onSep 19, 2015 at 8:33pm PDT