Viktor Hovland of Norway is currently No. 163 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings.
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The Junior PLAYERS Championship presented by TaylorMade-adidas Golf has one of the strongest fields of the year, as 26 of the top 30 and nine of the top 10 players in the Polo Golf Rankings will compete in the event.
2. Spencer Soosman (Westlake Village, Calif.)
3. Won Jun Lee (Wesley Chapel, Fla.)
4. Eugene Hong (Sanford, Fla.)
5. Norman Xiong (Canyon Lake, Calif.)
6. Chun-an Yu (Taoyuan, Taiwan)
7. Ryan Grider (Lewisville, Texas)
8. Davis Shore (Knoxville, Tenn.)
9. Matthew Wolff (Agoura Hills, Calif.)
10. S.M. Lee (Buford, Ga.)
Eleven players in this year's field played in the 2014 Junior PLAYERS Championship presented by TaylorMade-adidas Golf. Two players finished in the top 10 last year, as Hidetoshi Yoshihara of Irvine, California, finished fourth (74-68-73--215) and Will Chandler of Atlanta finished 10th (72-70-76--218).
In all, the 78-player field includes players from 20 states and 15 countries (Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom and United States). Additionally, 16 players from outside the United States earned an invitation based on their outstanding records in international competition.
Zacharias Agerbak (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Joacim Ahlund (Gavle, Sweden)
Charles-Eric Belanger (Quebec, Quebec)
Toby Briggs (Norwich, United Kingdom)
Luis Carrera (Mexico City, Mexico)
Daniel Faccini (Bogota, Colombia)
Jonathan Gøth-Rasmussen (Helsingør, Denmark)
Marc Hammer (Oetigheim, Germany)
Viktor Hovland (Oslo, Norway)
Jeong-Weon Ko (Bussy St Georges, France)
Taiga Miura (Kanagawa, Japan)
Zach Murray (Wodonga, Australia)
Rhys Nevin-Wharton (Cheshire, United Kingdom)
Emilio Gonzalez Ramirez (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico)
Henry Spring (Whakatane, New Zealand)
Marcus Svensson (Halmstad, Sweden)