CLOSING in on his 18th birthday, Brisbane’s Harrison Gomez is completing his junior golf career in style, claiming both the Jack Newton International Junior Classic and the Greg Norman Junior Masters late last year, and promising even more success against Australia’s best amateurs.
Already the Nudgee Golf Club member has shown he’s capable against older players, winning the Coolangatta-Tweed Heads leg of the Next Gen Amateur Tour in July and finishing fifth in that tour’s World Final at Moonah Links in November.
During a stellar 2025, Gomez also won the Maroochy River Junior Open, tied with Chase Oberle in the Queensland Junior Championship and was a member of the successful Queensland junior squad in the Interstate Teams Matches series.
Gomez, who was introduced to golf by his father Pablo as a youngster in Melbourne, plans to tackle the elite amateur events in Australia this year, beginning with the Australian Amateur Championship, and the Riversdale Cup in March.
He’s also got his eye on a few amateur events in Asia but, unlike other talented teenage stars, has no plans to take the collegiate pathway in the United States, choosing instead to develop his game here in Australia.
Gomez is a member of the Queensland high performance squad and is hoping to be promoted to Tier 3 status this year, and be included in the state team.
“I want to continue to play well, learn as much as I can, and continue to enjoy playing golf,” he said.
Harrison Gomez with his hero Ian Baker-Finch after competing in last year’s IBF Junior Classic.
Golf, of course, is much more enjoyable when you’re having the sort of success that has followed Gomez in recent months.
His first major win was the Jack Newton International Classic, when he fired a superb final round six-under-par 66 to secure a five-shot victory over Western Australian Spencer Harrison.
He followed up in mid-December with a victory in the Greg Norman Junior Masters, touching out Gold Coaster Yutaro Matsushina in a playoff. The pair finished the 72-hole tournament on two-under-par in an event that attracted 200 of Australia’s top juniors.
Early this year Gomez, who holds a plus 5.7 handicap at Nudgee, finished fifth in both the South Australia Junior Amateur and the South Australia Junior Masters, before being runner-up in the Kooralbyn Junior Masters.
“I worked hard all last year, had a few close calls and it was good to see that at the end of the year the work paid off,” he said.
Gomez, who began playing golf when he was six, was a prolific winner of junior events in Melbourne, before the family moved to Brisbane in mid-2020.
He joined Royal Pines as a junior member, and in 2023 also became a member at Nudgee, where he has contested the past two Queensland PGA Championships.
Widely regarded as one of the country’s most talented young golfers, Gomez’s sights are on becoming a touring professional.
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