Preston Stout Facts: 12 Things To Know About The US Walker Cup Star

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published 6 September 2025

Preston Stout is one of the leading amateur golfers in the world, having won two Big 12 Championships and the NCAA Division 1 title alongside his OSU teammates as well as many other prestigious tournaments.

Get to know the Texan and 2025 Walker Cupper better with these facts about his career so far...

Preston Stout facts:

1. Stout is from Richardson, Dallas, Texas

2. He attends Oklahoma State University

3. His career-high position in the World Amateur Golf Ranking is 4th

4. The Texan represented the victorious Team USA at the 2022 Junior Presidents Cup

5. Stout joined Jordan Spieth as the only three-time winner of the Byron Nelson Junior Championship when he won it for the third consecutive year in 2023

6. Stout finished T22nd in his Korn Ferry Tour debut at the 2024 Veritex Bank Championship with a score of 18-under-par

7. He won the Big 12 Championship in both 2024 and 2025, becoming the second player in history to win it back-to-back after Ludvig Aberg and third two-time winner after Morgan Hoffman and Aberg.

8. Stout won the 2025 Northeast Amateur Invitational at Wannamoisett Country Club in Providence, Rhode Island by eight strokes. He matched the course record of 61 in his 54-hole total of nine-under-par

9. He helped OSU win the 2025 NCAA Division 1 championship

10. He made his PGA Tour debut at the 2025 3M Open, where he missed the cut by one stroke after rounds of 68 and 70

11. Stout was named to the 2025 USA Waker Cup team for Cypress Point

12. He claimed medalist honors at the 2025 US Amateur and eventually lost to Niall Shiels Donegan 1 down in the last-16

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Preston Stout bio
Hometown	Richardson, Dallas, Texas
College	Oklahoma State University
Career-high WAGR	4th

Preston Stout wins:

Northeast Amateur Invitational, 2025
Big 12 Conference Men's Golf Championship, 2024 and 2025
Byron Nelson Junior Championship, 2023, 2022 and 2021
CT Pan Junior Championship, 2022
AJGA Carolina Trace Junior, 2021

Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, X and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 and 2025 Masters from Augusta National and was there by the 18th green to watch Rory McIlroy complete the career grand slam. He has also covered five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!

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