Sydney’s rising junior golf star Jeffrey Guan set to tee off with Cameron Smith on US scholarship
Rising Sydney golf star Jeffrey Guan has landed a scholarship that will see him travel to the US to be mentored by the great Cameron Smith. Hear from the talented young golfer.
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Rising Sydney junior golfing star Jeffrey Guan has snared the Cameron Smith Scholarship for 2023 which will see him travel to the US to play alongside the Australian golfing great.
The Bexley golfing gun is just 18 years old and has been one of the brightest up and coming golfers in the Jack Newton Junior Golf scene for the past few years, with this scholarship being one of the biggest moments of his career to date.
“I was playing a Junior 6’s tournament when Tony [Meyer] from Golf Australia phoned me,” Guan said.
“I didn’t know who he was; I thought it was a prank call.
“I was just so shocked, I didn’t know how to process it at first, but I thought it was really cool.
“When I found out it was real, I couldn’t keep it to myself, I had to tell my parents.”
Guan is a two-time national junior champion who plays out of The Australian Golf Club, who most recently was a part of the winning NSW unit at the Australian Interstate Teams Matches last week at St. Michael’s Golf Club.
He has also a former two-time NSW Junior Boys champion and in 2023 has already taken out the Avondale Amateur.
The Cameron Smith Scholarship has been in place since 2016 when the Queensland superstar broke onto the world scene, giving some prize money back to help promote young players.
This is the first time the scholarship winners have been selected outside of Queensland since the award’s inception, with the other recipient for 2023 being Western Australia’s 17-year-old rising star Joseph Buttress.
This comes on the back of Cameron Smith himself asking that the prize be broadened to a national award.
Tony Meyer, Golf Australia’s High-Performance Director, said making the Scholarship a national prize was exciting for the game and the development of the sport’s brightest stars.
“It’s what Cameron wanted and we’re happy to facilitate that,” Meyer said.
“We know from past visits that, first of all, the players get so much out of spending time with Cameron, who they all look up to, but we also know that Cameron loves imparting that knowledge.
“It’s part of his DNA that he wants to help others at a stage of their lives when they do need some guidance.”
Guan and Buttress will travel to the US in June as a part of this Scholarship to spend time alongside Smith at this year’s US Open at the Los Angeles Country Club and Smith’s Florida home base.
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