
Joaquin Niemann
CHI
- No. 1 in World Amateur Golf Ranking for 44-weeks period before turning professional
- Recipient of Mark H. McCormack Medal (2017)
- Winner of the 2018 Latin America Amateur Championship
- Became the first player from Chile to win on the PGA TOUR; youngest non-U.S. PGA TOUR winner since 1923 and third player born outside the U.S. to win on the TOUR before his 21st Birthday in the last 95 years (joined by Seve Ballesteros, Rory McIlroy)
- Owns one PGA TOUR win
- During the fall of 2020, Niemann launched a fundraising campaign for an expensive treatment for his infant cousin, Rafita Calderon, who was diagnosed with a rare genetic disease. Through donations of his own earnings and a fundraising effort, Niemann helped her family obtain the more than 2 million treatment in spring of 2021