Top ranked amateur Luke Clanton to kick off 2025 at Sony Open
08 Jan 2025
by Justin Golba of AmateurGolf.com
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For the ninth time in his career and the first time in 2025, Florida State standout and top-ranked amateur
Luke Clanton will tee it up on the PGA Tour. Clanton will play in the 2025 Sony Open at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii, from Jan. 9 to Jan. 12.
The Florida State standout is ranked No. 1 in the Golfweek/AmateurGolf.com World Rankings.
Clanton rose to the top of the men’s ranking after a Round of 64 victory at the U.S. Amateur at Hazeltine National Golf Club.
This past summer, Clanton became the first amateur to record consecutive top 10s on the PGA Tour since 1958. A week after finishing T-10 in the 2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic, the Florida State All-American finished runner-up in the John Deere Classic.
He also recently recorded a solo fifth-place finish at the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina.
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Clanton also made his U.S. Open debut at Pinehurst and became the first amateur in championship history to record consecutive rounds in the 60s with back-to-back 69s in the second and third rounds. He would finish T41 and second among all amateurs.
During this past collegiate season at Florida State University, Clanton finished fifth in the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship and fifth in the NCAA Stanford Regional, leading the Seminoles to the NCAA Championship, where they fell to Auburn in the championship final.
Clanton shared runner-up honors with five other golfers in the NCAA Division I Championship at the Omni La Costa Resort's North Course, one stroke behind winner Hiroshi Tai of Georgia Tech. Clanton went 2-1 in match play, losing to Auburn's JM Butler in the championship match, 2 and 1.
Clanton will tee off at 6:10 p.m. ET in Hawaii with Aldrich Potgieter and Frankie Capan III.