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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
8
Pars
22
Bogeys
5
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
94.582.5−12
Approach
83.984.5+0.6
Around the Green
88.089.5+1.5
Putting
93.5103+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
73
%
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
93
%
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
ROUND 1 · MON ROUND 2 · TUE −4 −2 E +2 −5 · TUE START 78 — LEADER FADES
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.
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