Beau Hossler won the Jones Cup Feb. 7 by six strokes after firing a 2-under-par 70 in the final round of the 54-hole event in Sea Island, Ga.
The Jones Cup was born from a commitment to amateur golf by the A.W. Jones family, who founded the Cloister and Sea Island Golf Club in 1928. The event, inaugurated in 2001, brings together many of the finest amateurs from the U.S. and abroad.
The victory put the Mission Viejo native in a group of Jones Cup winners that includes PGA Tour winners Patrick Reed and Justin Thomas and provided him with an exemption into the PGA Tour’s RSM Classic in November.
Hossler, a junior at Texas, has had lots of success in amateur golf, winning the Western Amateur in 2014 and qualifying three times for the U.S. Open by age 20. He’s already earned two medalist honors this season for the Longhorns, at the Arizona Intercollegiate and Nike Invitational, and his confidence seems to be growing.
“I feel like I’m capable of winning every tournament I play in now,” Hossler told Golfweek Magazine.
With the victory, Hossler moved past Maverick McNealey to No. 2 in the Golfweek/AmateurGolf.com World Rankings, behind No. 1 Bryson DeChambeau.
