SPRINGFIELD, N.J. (August 4, 2026) – Alexandra Phung of Forest Hills, N.Y., and Rayhao Feng of Short Hills, N.J., added their names to the esteemed list of Carter Cup champions after impressive performances led them to the girls’ and boys’ titles at Baltusrol Golf Club.
Phung, 15, carded rounds of 69-70 to finish at 5-under for the 36-hole tournament and become the second winner of the girls’ division, a year after her older sister, Amelie, claimed the inaugural girls’ division title.
Phung’s morning round of 69 on the Upper Course included four birdies and just one bogey. Playing the Lower Course in the afternoon, she birdied Nos. 15 and 18 to make the turn at 1-under (she began her round on No. 10).
“On the 18th, my pitch wasn’t my best shot, but I was on the green,” Phung said. “I gave myself a chance, and I just decided, ‘Ok, I’m just going to get it up there and we’ll see what happens,’ and thankfully it dropped. It was a great putt, I’m really proud of that.”
She then birdied the first hole, and despite hitting her tee shot on the par-3 fourth into the water, she went on to birdie Nos. 7 and 8 to finish at 2-under for the afternoon.
“I felt very relaxed today,” she said. “I was able to play with a really nice girl, Eve, and I think we were really able to just go out there and have a lot of fun and make some great shots, I think that kind of made the whole day go by in a breeze.”
Eve Krinsky of New York, N.Y., and Jessica Kim of Tenafly, N.J., finished tied for second with a total score of 6-over. Kim also finished second in last year’s Carter Cup.
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In the boys’ division, Rayhao Feng, the 2025 runner-up, used an afternoon 66 on the Lower Course to make a late jump to the top of the leaderboard to earn the title. He carded a 1-over 73 on the Upper Course in the morning, and then began his afternoon round on the Lower Course with a birdie on the par-4 first hole. He gained momentum late on the back nine with birdies on Nos. 14 and 16, then an eagle on the par-5 17th.
“On 17, I actually told my group mate on the tee that I was going to swing really hard with my drive because I was just trying to have fun and reach the green in two,” Feng said. “Especially since it’s hole 17 on the Lower, which is really long. I ended up hitting that really good, and I had 250 yards left.”
Using a 3-wood, he hit his second shot onto the green to just a foot. “It ended up being just a foot away from the hole, so I just tapped that in for eagle,” he said.
The 16-year-old closed out his round with another birdie on 18 to jump one shot ahead of clubhouse leader Josh Yan of Newburgh, N.Y.
“It feels really great,” Feng said of the win. “Throughout the day I was just trying to play my own game. I didn’t play too well this morning on the Upper, I shot 1-over, so I was thinking for the Lower, don’t try to chase birdies and just play the best that I can.”
Yan carded rounds of 72-68 to finish at 3-under for the championship, including three birdies on Nos. 16-18 (he began his afternoon round on No. 10). Zach Berger finished third at 2-under with rounds of 69-72, while Callahan Fay of Mamaroneck, N.Y., and Gregory Psaki of Greenwich, Conn., were a shot behind at 1-under for the day.
Both champions add this title to their already impressive golf resumes. Phung, a member of Team New York, a state team of the USGA’s National Development Team program, recently returned home after competing in the Junior PGA Championship. She is a two-time Drive, Chip and Putt winner and has competed in four National Finals at Augusta National in 2025, 2023, 2021, and 2019. Earlier this year, she captured the AJGA Alice Dye Junior Invitational. Feng won the 2026 AJGA Visit Idaho Junior Championship in July and was the 2025 NJ PGA Junior Tour Player of the Year. Feng’s sister, Rayee, is competing this week in the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship.
The Carter Cup was first played in 2003 and is named in honor of Michael P. Carter, an accomplished junior player at Baltusrol and standout member of the golf team at New Jersey’s Delbarton School who died in a car accident in 2002. Carter had won the junior club championships at both Baltusrol and Winged Foot and, at the time of his death, played for Penn State.
