Bronxville's Tom Ruhanen has a tee time with history.

The Class of 2027 golfer punched his ticket to the inaugural Team New York squad and will battle a loaded field at the 109th Met Junior Championship at North Jersey Country Club in Wayne, N.J., Monday, July 13 through Wednesday, July 15.

Ruhanen, who competes on the American Junior Golf Association circuit, is one of three players tapped for the state team under the USGA's U.S. National Development Program. He'll go shot-for-shot with teammates Graham Erickson of Rye and Josh Yan of Newburgh, both fellow inaugural picks looking to make noise on a big stage.

The Metropolitan Golf Association, which released the field Thursday, July 10, bills the Met Junior as the nation's oldest junior championship. The tournament dates to 1912, and its roll call of Mandeville Trophy winners reads like a who's who: Cameron Young, Marc Turnesa, Butch and Bill Harmon.

Here's the format: 36 holes of stroke-play qualifying, then the low 16 advance to match play in a sudden-death bracket. North Jersey Country Club gets its first crack at hosting on a classic Walter Travis layout that opened in 1923.

Ruhanen arrives with reps at the national level under his belt. He carded rounds of 84-74-73 to finish T45 at the Visit Williamsburg Junior Championship in May 2026, showing a strong closing gear. In January 2026, he posted 78-77-81 for 47th at the Discover Puerto Rico Junior Championship.

The Westchester contingent is deep. Callahan Fay, the reigning Westchester Junior champion, headlines a group that includes Quinn Egan of White Plains, Joe Carey and Kurt Carey of Yorktown Heights, Ken Fernandes of Chappaqua, and Minho Chung of Mahopac. Yan, Ruhanen's Team New York running mate, is a proven match-play threat after reaching the semifinals at the 2025 Met Junior at Southampton.

Defending champion Jonathan Weinberg is not in the draw, meaning a new name gets etched on the Mandeville Trophy on Wednesday, July 15.