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July 24, 2026
Jaden Dumdumaya (Benecia, Calif.) shot rounds of 63-71-65-69 to win the 59th Pacific Coast Amateur by two strokes, at a final total of 12-under par. The championship was held this week, July 21-24, at Poppy Ridge Golf Course in Livermore, Calif.
With his win, Dumdumaya became the first player to win back-to-back Pacific Coast Amateur Championships since Billy Mayfair did so in 1987-88. Dumdumaya, Mayfair and Mike Davis (1969-70) are the only three players to ever win two straight PAC Coast titles.
Conditions during the final round were fairly neutral, with intense sun and moderate wind that allowed for moderately low scoring.
Dumdumaya entered the final round with a three-shot lead, courtesy of his third round of 65. The player, affectionately nicknamed “Lil’ Dragon,” wasted no time in lowering his 11-under total, carding
The most action of Dumdumaya’s round came in the two-hole stretch of 12 and 13. On the former – a par 4 – he nearly holed his second shot for eagle, but his yellow Titleist ball only just lipped out of the cup, and he took his fourth birdie of the day instead. Dumdumaya
Meanwhile, Ryan Abuan had made a charge and posted the clubhouse lead at 9-under, thanks to a final round 63. As well, two groups ahead, Deitrek Gill was making a charge of his own and eventually posted a 10-under total.
After the double bogey, Dumdumaya played the ensuing holes carefully and conservatively, and began making a string of pars. On the 16th – the hole he triple bogeyed in round 2 – Dumdumaya found a steep-faced greenside bunker with his second shot, but successfully got the ball up and down for a clutch par.
He made another par on 17 and arrived at the 18th hole with a two-shot lead. He decidedly chose not to aggressively reach the green of the closing, par-5, hole, and a third-shot approach and two putts was all he needed to seal his second straight title. Walking off the green in victory, Jaden was embraced by his mother and grandparents, who had spectated all four of his rounds throughout the week.
“This tournament means a lot to me,” Dumdumaya said after the round. “It came down to the last few holes, and I was fighting at the end, but I was glad to be able to close it out.”
Last year, Dumdumaya had his father caddying for him, and this year, his looper was his brother for three days. Jaden’s best friend, Mario, was on the bag during round 3. All that considered, Jaden said he’s come to know the PAC Coast Am as a “family affair.”
“Poppy Ridge is a special place to me,” he said, having grown up in the nearby city of Benecia. “I grew up playing golf out here...if I had to choose my place to win back-to-back, it’d be here.”
In 2025, Jaden won ranked as the No. 1000 player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR). This year, he is the champion as WAGR No. 75, having blossomed into one of the world’s best. He is a rising junior at the Univerisity of Southern California (USC).
“In the last year my game has changed tremendously,” he said. “My confidence has definitely risen a lot and I’ve seen a lot of good results.”
July 23, 2026
Jaden Dumdumaya (Benecia, Calif.) shot a 5-under par third round of 65 and holds a three-shot lead at the 59th Pacific Coast Amateur at 11-under par.
Conditions during the third round were more reminiscent of the first, with moderate winds and sunshine.
Defending tournament champion
This week, other than Dumdumaya’s triple bogey, which came at the 16th hole during his second round, he has only carded two additional bogeys and nothing worse against 16 birdies. Entering his junior season at the University of Southern California, Dumdumaya is the highest ranked WAGR player in this week’s field at No. 75.
“Tomorrow my game plan is to stay in the present and trust the process,” Dumdumaya told AmateurGolf.com after his round.
Among those from whom Dumdumaya will have to resist challenge is Jacob Goode (San Francisco), who is currently at the 8-under tie for second. Playing in the final group Thursday after a pair of 67’s to open his week, Goode found four birdies on his front nine and went out strongly in 31. But some turbulence followed, as Goode dropped shots on holes 14 and 17 to come home with a 68, which still represented his third straight sub-70 round.
“My enemy and my rival is the golf course,” Goode said later in competitive spirit. “I’m not really thinking about anyone else, I’m just trying to go out and put a round together.”
Goode is ranked No. 140 in WAGR. A graduate of the University of Washington, he finished in a tie for sixth at the 2026 Trans-Mississippi Amateur Championship.
Tied with Goode in second are Brandon Knight (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Sihao Cong (Temecula, Calif.), who both shot 68’s of their own.
As well, Reese Knox (Peyton, Colo.), who teed off at 10:20 (the leaders did at 1:50), skyrocketed his way into contention. Beginning the day at 1-over and far from guaranteed to make the cut, Knox fired an incendiary round of 62 – the course record at Poppy Ridge – to post 7-under.
“It was an awesome day, I had fun,” Knox said later. “The putter got hot early, which is good.”
Knox is a rising junior at Boise State University and represented Team Idaho in the Morse Cup competition this week. Four strokes off
With the first three rounds complete, the field will now be cut to the low 50 players and ties. The first group will tee off at 7:30 a.m., and the last will do so at 10:30.
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July 22, 2026
Aidan Lee (Pasadena, Calif.) shot a 5-under par second round of 65 and leads the 59th Pacific Coast Amateur at 8-under.
Unlike the first round, during which five players shot 63, the second round played more difficult. Strong winds neutralized much of the low scoring, and each of the five now-former leaders shot over-par rounds.
Lee recently completed his senior season at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif. Entering the second day four back of the lead following an opening 67, he delivered another perfectly solid round of golf. Today’s 65 was slightly gritty, with bogeys on holes 5 and 10, but he carded five additional birdies and eagled the par-5 18th to post the 8-under total that would hold at the top as the day continued. That closing eagle was his second such score of the week; the other came on the par-5 first hole yesterday.
Lee sits a single stroke ahead of Mitchell Hoey (Alamo, Calif.), who also enjoyed a relatively clean second round. He bogeyed the par-3 third hole but erased it with a sixth-hole birdie. Going out even for his round, Lee gained momentum on the back side with birdies on the 12th, 14th and 17th holes; 14 has played as the most difficult hole this week.
Like Lee, Hoey recently graduated from Saint Mary’s in 2026. Hoey recorded five top 25 finishes for the Gaels during his final season.
Defending champion Jaden Dumdumaya was among Tuesday’s 63-shooters to lose ground Wednesday -- though not severely -- by carding a 1-over 71. He had reached 9-under par for the tournament by the time he teed off the 16th hole, but a lost ball on that hole led to a triple bogey. At 6-under, Dumdumaya is one of seven players two strokes behind Lee.
In the Morse Cup Competition, the hosting Northern California Golf Association posted an 11-under total to win the competition, mounting somewhat of a comeback in the process. Team NCGA was six strokes behind that of the Colorado Golf Association after Round 1, but a net 4-over total from the CGA contingent allowed others to close.
The Morse Cup team competition takes place during the first two days of the championship. Each of the 16 member Pacific Rim golf associations selects three players to represent them in this team competition, and the two top scores from each team in the first and second rounds will count toward the Morse Cup. This year, Dumdumaya, Kailer Stone and Joshua Kim comprised the winning NCGA team, the 17th that association has fielded. It tied for the distinction with the Southern California Golf Association in 1994.
The Morse Cup team trophy was donated by Samuel F. B. Morse, founder and developer of Pebble Beach Company and Pebble Beach Golf Links.
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July 21, 2026
Colin Prater (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Jaden Dumdumaya (Benecia, Calif), Thayer Plewe (Cortez, Colo.), Matthew Robles (Downey, Calif.) and Sihao Cong (Temecula, Calif.) all shot course-record rounds of 63 and collectively lead the 59th Pacific Coast Amateur following the first round.
Prater, 31, has long been a consistent and well-known presence in Amateur Golf. No. 295 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR), he is a science teacher at Cheyenne Mountain High School in Colorado Springs and garnered widespread attention when he qualified for the U.S. Open in 2024.
Taking on Poppy Ridge today, Prater didn’t land himself in much trouble. He birdied the par-4 second and fourth holes, before holing out from a bunker on the seventh for an eagle. Making the turn in 30, Prater’s back nine wasn’t quite as explosive, but he still managed two more birdies to complete a bogey-free round of 63.
“We got lucky, going out kind of early, the wind was down,” he said after his round, which began at 8:10 a.m.
Continued Prater, on his attitude in this championship, “I’m older than all these young college studs, so I’m just trying to execute one shot at a time.”
Dumdumaya is the defending PAC Coast champion and played up to the part with a bogey-free Tuesday. He birdied half of his opening 12 holes and gained one more shot with a birdie on the par-5 18th. Nicknamed the 'Lil Dragon, he is the all-time most winningest Boy (16) on the Junior Tour of Northern California.
Dumdumaya, a rising junior at the University of Southern California (USC), is ranked 87th in WAGR, higher than any other player in this field.
Plewe, too, did not register a bogey, and his seven birdies came on holes 1, 6, 7, 10, 12, 16 and 18. Going out in 32 and coming in in 31, he demonstrated a fine understanding of Poppy Ridge’s layout and is a contender. Plewe is a rising sophomore at the University of New Mexico, where he was named was named Mountain West Conference Freshman of the Year during the 2025-26 season.
Robles, like Prater, shot 30 on the front side. The only of the five leaders to bogey a hole, Robles did so on the long par-4 13th, but birdies on 16 and 18 erased any damage. He is a rising junior at the University of Santa Clara, after two All-WCC selection seasons.
Cong could not make it to Livermore for a Monday practice round, but that didn’t stop him from carding an eagle on his opening hole. Building from there, he found himself out in 31 and eventually 6-under by the time reached the 15th tee. He birdied that hole and parred the rest to submit a clean scorecard of his own.
“It was only my second time ever seeing this course,” Cong told AmateurGolf.com after his round. “My team played a practice round here once, but other than that, nothing.”
Cong is a member of the University of California, Berkeley (Cal) golf team and completed his redshirt sophomore season in 2025-26.
In the Morse Cup Competition, the Colorado Golf Association, with the help of Prater and Plewe, have the solo lead at 14-under par. The Southern California Golf Association is second, one shot behind at 13-under. Team NCGA (Dudumaya, Kailer Stone and Joshua Kim) are T-3 at 132.
The Morse Cup team competition takes place during the first two days of the championship. Each of the 16 member Pacific Rim golf associations selects three players to represent them in this team competition, and the two top scores from each team in the first and second rounds will count toward the Morse Cup.
