Preston Summerhays is an American amateur golfer who plays collegiately at Arizona State University (ASU). He has ranked as high as fifth on the World Amateur Golf Ranking and debuted at No. 1 on the PGA Tour University pre-season ranking for the class of 2025.
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Preston Summerhays Facts:
1. Summerhays was born on July 22, 2002 in Farmington, Utah and plays out of Scottsdale, Arizona.
2. He comes from a family of accomplished golfers. His dad, Boyd, played 11 years as a professional, including making it all the way to the PGA Tour in 2003. Preston’s great uncle, Bruce, won three times on the PGA Tour Champions. His uncle, Daniel, won on the Korn Ferry Tour as an amateur, while his aunt, Carrie, is the head women’s golf coach at Birgham Young University. Preston’s great-grandfather, Pres, was head coach at the University of Utah and his great-grandmother, Lynn, was president of the Utah Junior Golf Association.
3. Summerhays learned golf from his father, Boyd, who became a qualified golf instructor after a herniated disc ended his professional career. Along with training Preston and his younger sister Grace, Boyd has also worked with PGA Tour star Tony Finau.
4. Preston says he has played “hundreds” of rounds with Finau, and regards him as a mentor. “He’s way better than I was at that age,” Finau told Golf Digest of Summerhays in 2022. “I mean, way, way better.” He has beaten Finau multiple times.
5. Despite growing up around golf, Summerhays’ dad didn’t allow him to play in tournaments until he was 10. “My dad actually didn’t let me play tournaments until I was 10 years old, 10 or 11, which, I mean, that’s a little bit late,” he told Golf Digest. “He wanted to make sure I played all the sports and got a taste of everything before I fully committed to golf. I would say … I was kind of born to be a golfer.”
6. Summerhays won the US Junior Amateur in 2019, earning his spot at the US Open the following year.
7. As a junior golfer, he won back-to-back Utah Amateur titles in 2018 and 2019, earning him starts on the Korn Ferry Tour’s Utah Championship. He also became the youngest winner of the Sunnehanna Amateur.
8. After graduating from Chaparral High School, Summerhays enrolled at ASU and is a…
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