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Hiroshi Tai, Singapore/Windermere, Fla. (Windermere Prep)

Ranked as high as No. 45 in his high school graduation year of 2020, Tai will enroll at Georgia Tech in January following a two-year military service commitment to his home city-state of Singapore. Tai rose as high as No. 40 in the Junior Golf Scoreboard (No. 11 in his class), and No. 521 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.
 

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Aidan Tran, Fresno, Calif. (Clovis North High School)

Ranked as high as No. 51 in the Class of 2022 according to the American Junior Golf Association, Tran comes to Georgia Tech with three victories and seven other top-10 finishes in AJGA events since 2018, including a 10-stroke victory this year in the AJGA Junior at san Jose. He also earned a top-10 finish at the AJGA Ping An Bank Open Championship and reached the round of 32 at the California Amateur Championship after tying for 12th place in stroke play. Tran previously won the 2020 AJGA Longbow Golf Club Open and the 2018 AJGA Mahoning Valley Hospital Foundation Junior All-Star event. He is ranked No. 22 in his class in the Golfweek/Sagarin Boys Index, and No. 43 by the Junior Golf Scoreboard.

On the high school level, he won the California Interscholastic Federation Central Section Championship in 2021. Committed to Tech before he ever played a high school match, Tran set a Clovis North high school tournament record with a bogey-free 63 in his very first competition as a ninth-grader.


Brady Rackley, Atlanta, Ga. (The Lovett School)

A four-year varsity player, Rackley led The Lovett School to both state and region championships while finishing 2nd as an individual in the state championship last spring (2021). In his 2020-21 season, Rackley had two tournament wins and 10 top 5 performances, was named to the Longhorn Invitational all-tournament team and placed fourth in the Georgia Junior Tour Championship. In addition, Rackley was awarded a spot on the 2021 all-State golf team and selected as the 2021 Bobby Jones award recipient for his success on and off the course. In addition to his performance on the course, Rackley has compiled a 98.86 weighted grade-point average and is an Eagle scout.
 
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