Cooper Moore named in Junior Presidents Cup
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Golf New Zealand Academy member and 2025 Eisenhower Trophy representative Cooper Moore has been named in the 2026 Junior Presidents Cup International team — one of the most prestigious honours in junior golf.
The 2026 Junior Presidents Cup will be held at Medinah Country Club in Chicago from September 20-21.
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Moore, 17 a member at Clearwater Golf Club and student at St Bede’s College, secured his place in the team by ranking fifth in the International Team standings when the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) qualifications window closed on June 4.
Moore’s selection is the result of top form including earning a late call-up to the 2024 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in Japan, where he finished T8 as the leading New Zealaner.
Within weeks of that performance, he won the New Zealand Amateur Championship and added the Australian Boys Amateur and the 2025 Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation Junior Boys’ Championship in Hong Kong.
Also testing himself in the professional ranks, Cooper won his maiden Summerset Charles Tour title at the 2025 Mount Open and finished runner-up at the 2026 New Zealand PGA Championship, winning the Sir Bob Charles Trophy as low New Zealander.
New Zealand has been proud to have representation at the Junior Presidents Cup in recent years. Moore takes part as one of the International Team’s highest-ranked players and one of the most decorated junior amateurs in the Asia-Pacific region.
Golf New Zealand wishes Moore all the best of success at Medinah and we can’t wait to see him take on the Americans as part of the International team.
The Junior Presidents Cup is a two-day team match-play competition, run by the PGA Tour in partnership with the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA), that takes place just days before the professional Presidents Cup begins at the same venue.
Twelve of the world's best junior boys (19 and under) from outside Europe face off against the top 12 Americans — mirroring the format of the professional event.
The 2026 edition takes place at the iconic Medinah Country Club in Chicago on September 20–21, with International Team Captain CT Pan leading a squad drawn from seven nations including Japan, South Korea, China, Colombia, Thailand and Hong Kong, as well as New Zealand.
The United States has won all four editions held since the event's inception in 2017.
