CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Four-Time Spring Academic All-Big Ten (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
• GCAA PING All-America Honorable Mention (2021)
• Two-Time PING All-Midwest Region (2020, 2021)
• All-Big Ten First Team (2021)
• Two-Time GCAA All-America Scholar (2021, 2022)
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2022-23)
• All-Big Ten Second Team (2020)
• Big Ten Freshman of the Year (2020)

FIFTH-YEAR SENIOR - 2023-24

• Competed in 20 rounds over seven events, including two tournaments in the Illini lineup
• Third on the team with a season stroke average of 71.40, the second-lowest mark of his collegiate career behind the 71.29 he posted as a sophomore in 2020-21
• Recorded four top-10 finishes, all as an individual competitor
• Carded a season-best tournament score and his best finish of the year as an indy at the Highland Meadows Collegiate (April 15-16) where he placed T4 with a 6-under 207 (67-69-71)
• His opening round of 67 (-4) at Highland Meadowns marked a season-low for a single round. 
• His best finish in the Illini lineup was a T17 at the Hal Williams Collegiate (Feb. 12-13) with a 2-under 211 (68-70-73) to help the Illini capture the team title for the second-consecutive year
• Posted eight of 20 rounds at par or better and carded three rounds in the 60s

SENIOR - 2022-23

• Competed in 15 rounds over five events, all as an individual competitor
• Seventh on the team with a stroke average of 74.53
• Posted a season-best finish with a tie for 25th at the Hal Williams Collegiate (Feb. 13-14)
• Opened the Hal Williams Collegiate with a 68 (-3) en route to an even-par 54-hole total of 213, both season-best marks

SUMMER - 2022

• Finished as the top amateur competitor (T88) at the DP World Tour’s 103rd Dutch Open (May 26-29) at Bernardus Golf IN Cromvoirt, Netherlands
• Competed in stroke play at The 127th Amateur Championship (June 13-18) at Royal Lytham & St. Annes in Lancashire, England, and the European Amateur Championship (June 22-25) at Parador Campo de Golf El Saler in Spain
• Played for Team Netherlands at the European Amateur Team Championship (July 5-9) at Royal St. George Golf Club in England
• Competed in stroke play at the 120th Western Amateur (July 31-Aug. 5)
• MIssed cut at the 2022 Dutch Amateur Championship (Aug. 8-13) at Eindhovensche Golf Course in Valkenswaard, Netherlands

JUNIOR - 2021-22

• Played in the lineup in all 12 tournaments
• Fifth on the team with a stroke average of 73.00
• Illinois' top finisher at the OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational (Sept. 17-19) where he finished tied for 10th
• Recorded his second top-10 finish of the year with a tie for eighth in the regular-season finale at the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate (April 23-24)
• Closed the OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational with a season-best 68 (-2) in Round 3 and posted his lowest 54-hole score of the season with a 211 (+1) 
• Tallied 12 rounds at par or better on the year, including three scores in the 60s 

SUMMER - 2021

• Shot an opening round of 66 and finished 30th at the Sunnehanna Amateur (June 16-19)
• Runner-up, two shots back, with rounds of 70-68-67-64 at the Northeast Amateur Invitational (June 23-26)
• Helped Team Netherlands to a seventh-place finish at the European Amateur Team Championship (July 6-10) PGA Catalunya Resort in Catalunya, Spain
• Also finished as the runner-up, one stroke back, at the German International Amateur Championship (July 25-22), with rounds of 69-65-69-65
• Placed seventh at the Dutch National Stroke Play Championship (Aug. 6-8)

SOPHOMORE - 2020-21

• Played in the lineup in all 10 tournaments
• Third on the team with a stroke average of 71.29
• Captured his first collegiate victory at the Louisiana Classics (March 15-16) with a career-best 54-hole total of 13-under 203 (68-69-66) to win by four strokes over teammates Adrien Dumont de Chassart and Michael Feagles
• Shot a season-best round of 66 (-6) in Round 3 of his victory at the Louisiana Classics
• Earned first-career Big Ten Golfer of the Week honor following the Louisiana Classics
• Ranked second on the team with 22 rounds of par or better
• Tallied eight rounds in the 60s
• Closed as the Illini’s top finisher twice, in his win at the Louisiana Classics and in the regular-season finale at the OSU’s Robert Kepler Intercollegiate (T-4th)
• Named All-Big Ten First Team
• Earned PING All-Midwest Region Honors from the GCAA and garnered PING GCAA All-America Honorable Mention honors 

SUMMER/FALL - 2020

• Placed third at the GTGA Invitational (July 22-25)
• Finished 80th in stroke play at the U.S. Amateur Championship (Aug. 10-16)
• Participated in the European Amateur Team Championship (Sept. 9-12)
• Tied for 13th at the Golfweek Indiana Amateur (Oct. 3-4)
• Tied for 21st at the Golfweek Purdue Amateur (Oct. 10-11)
• Tied for third at the HNS Amateur Open (Oct. 18-19)
• Tied for second at the Sunshine State Amateur (Nov. 23-25)
• Tied for 64th at the South Beach International Amateur (Dec. 19-22)
• Tied for fifth at the JAGA First Coast Amateur (Jan. 16-18)

FRESHMAN - 2019-20

• Played in the lineup in all six tournaments during the COVID-19 shortened season
• Second on the team with a stroke average of 72.00. 
• Tied the Illini program record with a 63 (-7) in his first collegiate round at the Maui Jim Intercollegiate (Sept. 13-15)
• Shot 63-68-73 to finish tied for 15th at 6-under 204 at the Maui Jim Intercollegiate, a team season-low tournament score 
• Recorded two additional top-20 finishes with a tie for 19th at the Crooked Stick Invitational (Oct. 14-15) and a tie for 15th at the Sports Authority Intercollegiate (Feb. 10-11)
• Tied for the team lead at the Tavistock Collegiate Invitational (Oct. 20-22) 
• Ranked second on the team with nine rounds of par or better
• Named Big Ten Freshman of the Year and to the All-Big Ten Second Team
• Earned PING All-Midwest Region honors from the GCAA

HIGH SCHOOL/JUNIOR

• 2015 U15 Dutch Champion
• Two-time Dutch U21 Champion (2016, 2017)
• 2017 Junior Orange Bowl International Champion
• 2018 Dutch National Men's Stroke Play Champion
• Earned runner-up honors in the 2018 Individual Stroke play at the European Team Boys Championship
• Tied for second at the 2018 European Amateur Championship
• Earned a bronze medal at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games 
• Took second at the 2019 French Amateur Championship
• Tied for sixth at the 2019 European Amateur, finishing 8-under par
• Appeared in the 2017 and 2018 European Tour KLM Open
• Two-time Netherlands Golf Federation Talent of the Year Award winner

PERSONAL

• Son of Jimmy Ji and Cathy Tan
• Born February 18, 2000
• Has one sister, Aijia
• Lists Tiger Woods as his favorite athlete because of his passion and the learning attitude he shows towards the sport of golf
• Also enjoys playing tennis
• Plans to major in Recreation, Sport and Tourism

Career Statistics

Career Results

^ - Competed as an individual and did not count toward team score