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            Champion · 2026
          

— 42nd Nicklaus Junior Championship · Boys 13–18

Reid
Korody.

The Venue

The Bear's Club
Jupiter, FL

The Dates

June 15–16
36 holes

The Lineage

Koepka · Berger
past champions

Winning Score

143

−1 69 · 74

Wins by 1

— The Card · 36 Holes at The Bear's Club

A 69 to build it. A 74 to survive it.

An opening 69 ran down the overnight leader. Tuesday's closing round turned scrappy — three bogeys and a double — yet the putter never cooled and the card held. Won by one.

Final · To Par

−1

143

Round 1

69 −3

Round 2

74 +2

Birdies

Pars

Bogeys

No back-to-back mistakes. Six over-par holes across 36 — every one answered with par or better on the very next hole.

Final Leaderboard

Boys 13–18 · Final · Top 10

        PosPlayerR1R2TotalTo Par
      

1 Reid KorodyCHAMPION 69 74 143 −1

2Tucker Cullinan'27 · Boynton Beach, FL7272144E

T3Reed Weekley'26 · Davie, FL7472146+2

T3Jack Leen'29 · Port Saint Lucie, FL7274146+2

T3Nathan Crawford'26 · Port St. Lucie, FL7373146+2

T3Charles Sundermeier LOW R1 · 68'29 · Lake Worth, FL6878146+2

T7Jack Davidson'30 · Jupiter, FL7572147+3

T7Martin Bustos'30 · Palm Beach Gardens, FL7473147+3

T7Kenny Klein'27 · Palm Beach Gardens, FL7275147+3

T10Cooper Foegen'28 · Hobe Sound, FL7772149+5

— State of the Game · Entering the Championship

What he brought. What showed up.

Reid arrived with an even bag — driving his strength on paper. The win didn't come from that strength holding. It came from the flat stick leaping ten points past its own baseline.

Shot Quality · baseline vs the championship

Season baselineThis event

Driving

94.5 → 82.5−12

Approach

83.9 → 84.5+0.6

Around the Green

88.0 → 89.5+1.5

Putting

93.5 → 103+9.5

SHOT QUALITY · 0–200 SCALE · 100 = BENCHMARK · EVENT = MON–TUE AVERAGE

+9.5

Putting vs
baseline

A 93.5 norm became a 103 — the part of his game that jumped the most. The spike that won it.

−12

Driving vs
baseline

His on-paper strength cratered — an SQ of 69 on Tuesday. The putter covered every lost yard.

The rest held to form

Approach +0.6 and short game +1.5 — right on his number. He didn't out-strike the field. He out-putted himself.

— What Won It · The Levers

He won it with the flat stick.

The irons never fully showed up — both rounds graded low tee-to-green. The putter more than covered for them, and the short game stopped every bleed.

−1The only red
number in the field

A field stacked with future college talent — and only Reid broke par. One clear of Tucker Cullinan, three clear of the pack at +2 — including the man who opened with a 68.

Putting · Shot Quality

★ THE LEVER

104

Putt SQ · peak

Mon

102

Tue

104

The only club to grade above the 100 benchmark — on either day — while the irons sagged into the 60s–80s. 36% birdie-or-better (field 30%), 16 one-putts, and five of his six best shots all week came on the greens.

The Short Game Held

up & down

Sand saves

2 / 2

ARG prox · Mon

4'9"

Missed greens didn't turn into bogeys. Both bunker tries got up and down, and no mistake ever came in pairs — every dropped shot answered on the next hole.

Precision Over Power

fairways · Mon

Avg drive

280/272

Elite bar

307

Nearly 30 yards shorter than the elite-junior benchmark — and the straightest player in the field on Monday. He out-positioned the bombers and let the putter do the rest.

— Where It Was Won · Reid vs The Field

He chased the 68 down.

      Reid Korody
      Sundermeier (R1 leader)
      Cullinan (2nd)
    

Cumulative score to par · 36 holes

R1 shown by round total · R2 hole-by-hole

STARTHOLE 18TURNHOLE 36

Shot Quality by category · Mon · Tue

OTT

96·69

APP

86·83

ARG

93·86

PUTT

102·104

DASHED = 100 SHOT-QUALITY BENCHMARK

— The hold

Sundermeier's opening 68 led by one. Tuesday, his card came back to the field — a 78 with a double on 17. Reid's never broke: birdie–birdie to open, a three-shot cushion by the 14th, and even a double at 15 left exactly one shot — all he needed.

— Shots of the Tournament · By Shot Quality

The three that lit Monday up.

His top-graded swings of the week — a 0–200 quality scale where anything over 150 is rare air. All three came in the opening 69.

Hole 7 · Par 3

ROUND 1

194

Shot
Quality

The 40-foot bomb.

A two on the par 3 — drained from 40 feet, the single best shot of his championship.

CLUBPutter
DISTANCE40 ft
RESULTBIRDIE

Hole 13 · Par 4

ROUND 1

188

Shot
Quality

The 24-foot answer.

A 24-footer poured in for birdie — the second of back-to-back gains on 12 and 13.

CLUBPutter
DISTANCE24 ft
RESULTBIRDIE

Hole 6 · Par 4

ROUND 1

186

Shot
Quality

7-iron to four feet.

The lone non-putt in the top three — 178 yards to 4 feet, a tap-in birdie set up.

CLUB7 Iron · 178 yds
LIEFairway → Green
FINISH4 FEET

— The signature Five of his six best-graded shots across both rounds came on the greens. This was a putting clinic — the flat stick, not the long stick, wrote the win.

— The Next Chapter

The trophy comes
with a team.

A first major championship — and a place earned on the state's biggest junior stage.

Qualified · Earned by winning

Justin Thomas–Cameron Young
SFPGA Junior Challenge Cup

As Boys 13–18 Nicklaus Junior champion, Reid claims an automatic spot on the 2026 team — a Ryder-Cup-style match hosted by tour pros Justin Thomas and Cameron Young.

When

Dec 12–14

Where

Emerald Dunes Club

Format

Team match

The name on the trophy

Reid's name joins a 42-year roll of Nicklaus Junior champions that includes major winners Brooks Koepka, Chase Koepka and Daniel Berger — won, fittingly, at Jack Nicklaus's own Bear's Club.

— The keepsake

A first major. Years in the making.

Not the cleanest ball-striking of his life — but the steadiest head, the hottest putter, and the lowest number that mattered. The work showed up when it counted.