The United States Junior Amateur Championship is one of the fourteen U.S. national golf championships organized by the United States Golf Association.
It is open to amateur boys who are under 19 on the last day of the competition and have a USGA Handicap Index of 4.4 or less.
The first tournament in 1948 was won by Dean Lind from a field of 495 entries.
Apart from Woods, well known winners include Johnny Miller (1964), David Duval (1989), Hunter Mahan (1999), Jordan Spieth (2009 and 2011), and Scottie Scheffler (2013).
Jack Nicklaus's best result was a semifinal loss.