Jackson’s birch already punch his ticket in PGA Tour. World No.1 amateur won his card through PGA Tour University accelerated, but is pushing his professional career until after another year in Auburn.
While professional life will come soon for Koivu, he still has some amateur goals to check before going to PGA Tour. One of them arrives this week, where Koivun will lead Americans against Great Britain and Ireland in 2025 Walker Cups in Cypress Point. Making the Walker Cup team became important for Koivun when he looked at the 2021 Walker Cup at the Golf Club Seminole. This goal became even more important for the Auburn star when he learned that the 2025 event was being held in Cypress Point, not far from where he grew up in San Jose.
Koivun played at Cypress Point Classic as a beginner in 2023 and held a memorandum from his daughters’ trip to the famous club to encourage him to achieve his dream of returning as a member of the Walker Cup team 2025. Motivator? A golf pencil.
“I would say the first time I looked at Walker’s Cup was in seminole,” Koivun said on Thursday before the Walker Cup. “That was the first time I really Got a first glaze at it, and from the say on out, i just enjoy to be a part of the team. Point Tournament here, I kept a cypress point pencil in my yardage book and told mySelf i’d a new one once I played the walker cup here, so I will probably get my pen.
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The USA team will look to rely on amateur no. 1 World Cup enough this weekend at Cypress Point. This is a burden that Koivun is ready to hold behind a summer that saw him go T11-T5-T6 to three PGA Tour begins after he lost the cut in the US Open.
“I would simply say experience in previous years,” Koivun said when asked to be the team’s anchor. “I have been lucky enough to play many games in matches, Ncaas, Match Play Tournament here, all those fun things. Just doing experience, how to play the game game, who works well with whom, all those things. Just relying on him and if CAP wants to decide for all four or what his decision is for him.
On Saturday, Koivun and Tommy Morrison lost 3 and 1 to Tyler Weaver and Connor Graham. But Koivun retired back to Saturday’s bachelors while sending Weaver 4 and 3.
Koivun and the Americans will have their full hands with a talented GB & I team that took a Motivational message from Rory Mcilroy Before the start of Saturday’s round. But Americans have amateur number 1 on their side, and Jackson Koivun has planned to leave Cypress with a win – and a new pencil – for a long time.
