The story so far.
Jacob Sosa turned professional in May 2026 after four years of Power-5 college golf at Texas and Texas A&M. He grew up in Austin, played his high school golf at Westlake, and learned the game in his father's range bay at River Place. The chapters below cover how he got from there to here.
- JUL6MONThe Blue Championship Open QualifierKorn Ferry Tour · eventBerthoud, COCommitted
- JUL7TUEISCO Championship Event QualifierPGA Tour · eventSimpsonville, KYConsidering
- JUL15WED3M Open Pre-Q #1PGA Tour · preBlaine, MNConsidering
Year One
Jacob turned professional in May 2026. His debut came at the Paragon Casino / PDS Gaming Championship on the All Pro Tour, played at Tamahka Trails in Marksville, Louisiana. He opened with a seven-under 65. Only two players in the field shot lower on the day. He finished the rain-shortened, 54-hole event at even par, T-22, and cashed his first professional check.
The rest of 2026 is a Monday-qualifier and mini-tour calendar. Three anchor weeks shape it: the Korn Ferry Tour Monday-qualifier swing in July through Berthoud, Ogden, and Omaha; the Good Good Championship qualifier at Omni Barton Creek in November, in his home town of Austin; and Korn Ferry Tour Q-School Stage I in December.
From here, the year is about reps and putting numbers on the board.
The chapters that got him here.
Junior Golf
The Sosas have been an Austin family for as long as Jacob has been alive. His father, John, lettered four years at Texas in the early 1990s and is now the director of instruction at River Place Country Club in west Austin, the club where the family golfs and where Jacob learned the game. By his early teens he was playing the Texas junior circuit and winning.
He took the Texas Junior Amateur in 2018 with a final-round 67, finishing eight under par. The trophy carries names like Ben Crenshaw, Jeff Maggert, and Scott Verplank. The next summer he reached the Round of 16 at the U.S. Junior Amateur at Inverness in Toledo, beating William Moll 4 and 2 in the round before. In 2020, as a high-school junior, he played his first Junior Invitational at Sage Valley (sometimes called the Masters of junior golf) and finished third at the Texas State Amateur.
By his senior year at Westlake he was a Rolex Junior All-America First Team selection, played for the West squad at the 2021 Wyndham Cup, and ranked the AJGA's No. 14 nationally and No. 3 in Texas in the class of 2022. He led the Westlake Chaparrals to three consecutive UIL Class 6A state team titles, finishing third, second, and tied for fifth himself across those three state tournaments. He signed with the University of Texas, the program his father had played for thirty years before.
The College Years
In his fourth career college start, as a Texas freshman, Jacob shot 11-under 61 at the Southwestern Invitational at North Ranch Country Club. The card had three eagles, five birdies, and no bogeys. It broke a Texas program record that had been shared by Justin Leonard, David Gossett, Brandon Stone, and Gavin Hall, and it carried the No. 18 Longhorns to their first team title of the season. Golf Channel ran the headline “Freshman shoots best score in Texas program history.”
His sophomore year brought two top-tens: a seventh at the Sahalee Players Championship and a fourth at the Olympia Fields / Fighting Illini Invitational. The following summer, between programs, he played a national amateur slate, with starts at the Southern Amateur, the Pacific Coast Amateur, and the Western Amateur Championship. He arrived at Texas A&M that fall as a Big 12 transfer with two Power-5 seasons behind him and a peak World Amateur Golf Ranking of 108.
At A&M the season opened with a tied-for-fifth at the Furman Intercollegiate, where his second round was a bogey-free six-birdie 65 and the Aggies won the team title. In May he made the trip to Omni La Costa for the NCAA Championship and led the Aggies in round two with a two-under 70, playing as a substitute. The summer that followed was another set of national amateur weeks: tied for seventh at the Monroe Invitational, a start at the Trans-Mississippi Amateur, and a qualifying spot in the 125th U.S. Amateur at The Olympic Club, the championship he had first played a junior version of six years earlier.
Family.
Golf runs in the family. Jacob's father, John Sosa, was a top-five national recruit in the same class as Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk, took a full scholarship to Texas, lettered four years for the Longhorns, and made the All-Southwest Conference team every season. He turned pro in 1993, played the developmental tours for years, and has been teaching full time since the early 2000s. Today he is the director of instruction at River Place Country Club in Austin, the club where Jacob grew up playing.
Jacob's mother, Veronica Sosa, has been the family's other competitor for as long as they've been a family, an accomplished paddler and kayaker who has put in as many hours on the water as the rest of the household has on the range. His sister, Julia Sosa, played at Westlake too and is now competing in college golf in her own right.
In June 2026, Jacob marries Emma Arthurs, a Lewisville native who spent four years as a Division I rower at the University of Texas.