Jansen Preston
Class
Junior
Hometown
Lexington, Ky.
High School
Lexington Christian Academy
Major
Undeclared
As a Junior (2022-23)
- SEC Academic Honor Roll
- Tied for third at the Kentucky Open at 5-under-par, the second-lowest score by an amateur
- Tied for sixth at the Kentucky Amateur with a 6-under-par 207
As a Sophomore (2021-22)
- SEC Academic Honor Roll
- Redshirted
As a Freshman (2020-21)
- SEC Academic Honor Roll
- Averaged 75.2 in six rounds played
- Low round 68 in the first round at the Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate
- Finished fourth at the New Year’s Invitational with a four-day total of 290 (+2)
The Preston File:
- Kentucky’s second-ranked player
- Three-time Kentucky high school state individual champion (state record)
- 2019 Kentucky Junior Amateur winner
- 2018 region individual champion
- 2017 Kentucky Junior Amateur winner
- 2017 Kentucky Player of the Year
- Led team to 2017 state title
- Three-time all-state first team
- 2020 Magnolia Amateur winner
- 2019 U.S. Amateur qualifier
- Second at 2019 UHY Detroit Junior at Forest Lake
- Tied for 24th at 2019 Wyndham Invitational
- Tied for 12th at 2019 Scott Robertson Memorial
- Tied for 16th at 2019 Dustin Johnson World Junior
- Son of Marty and Ragan Preston
- Father played baseball at Kentucky
- Three younger siblings: brothers, Jack and Hagan, and sister, Ava
- Four-time honor roll recipient
- 4.36 grade-point average as a senior
- First started playing golf as one-year-old