2026 GT World Championship Qualifying Groupings

So, we'll insert the music for this a little bit later here, but we're gonna go with the champ- uh, the, with the, the groupings for the Golden Tee World Championship, the 2026 edition.

And we will start with our streaming machines.

In the first group, in the A group with the first machine, we will have the defending world champion of Golden Tee, Clinton Grover from Rockford, Illinois.

Search champion, three-time winner on the National Golden Tee Tour, defending his championship.

He'll play alongside Chris Jusik, Cedar Park, Texas.

Several guys from that area in this tournament.

Last year's Speed Champion as well.

He was runner-up at the Florida Open.

And then PeteyTwoGloves, the Pepper Rat, two-time Purple Bracket champion on the National Golden Tee Tour from Bay City, Michigan.

They will make up the first streaming, first group on the streaming machine.

The second group will be the 2023 world champion, Paul Taylo, three times a winner on the National Golden Tee Tour.

56 cuts made lifetime in his career.

He's playing with Dan Gillard, his fifth consecutive world championship.

He made the cut in '22 and '23.

He's out of Mansfield, Texas.

And then a big story just in the last month, JD Hopwood.

He'll, uh, qualify on a streaming machine, the B group.

He'll be the Jinja Ninja.

He's the current Missouri Open champion.

This is his first world championship, and only two cuts made in his very, very short Golden Tee career.The second machine, Barack Temel in his second world championship.

He's the current Music City Madness champion.

He'll play with Matt Miller from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, his second world championship.

Four main brackets made since his last world championship, and then he'll play with our online tournament director and the Little Gun champion of 2025.

This is Tim Juhas, and that's on the A group of the second machine.

It's, it will be streamed.