Singapore juniors hoping to catch a US college coach’s eye don’t need to live in China to join the Asian Junior Elite Series (AJES). International players can enter by emailing tournaments@ajesgolf.com. Anyone who tees up this season gets a new tool: the series’ partnership with Sportsbox AI, announced on 28 September 2026, turns every competitor’s tournament swings into free 3D biomechanics reports that can be shared with college coaches. The app’s own Player plan costs US$109.99 a year, but AJES competitors pay nothing for their tournament reports.
College golf recruiting has long favoured whoever is easiest to see. A talented teenager in Singapore or elsewhere in Asia often has to rely on a scorecard and a highlight clip emailed across an ocean. As we wrote when AJES launched, the next step up usually means a flight and a visa. This deal is AJES’s attempt to put a player’s swing in front of coaches before any of that happens.
Your Swing, Turned Into Numbers
Sportsbox AI takes one ordinary smartphone video and builds a 3D model of your swing that you can rotate on screen. No sensors, suits or multi-camera studio are needed. From that model it measures pelvis rotation, spine tilt, sway, hand height, wrist position and the path of the clubhead. In plain terms, it shows a player what their hips and hands are doing at impact, which is exactly what a coach squints at on grainy video.
Under the partnership, every AJES player will have swings recorded during tournaments throughout the season. Each player gets a full 3D report of body-movement indicators, which builds into a technical portfolio over the season. AJES says that portfolio will sit alongside an online “Junior Golfer Swing Score Database” portal that will be made available to college coaches.
Smile Xu, founder of AJES and of Miles Group, the Hong Kong company that launched the series, called it “unprecedented access to elite, data-driven swing analysis” for the tour’s athletes. The practical upside is simpler: a player finishes the season with a record of how their movement changed, captured under tournament pressure instead of on a quiet range.
From Lab Bills to App Prices
Detailed 3D swing analysis used to belong to biomechanics labs. Sportsbox AI brought a version of it to phones. Its App Store listing prices the Player plan at US$15.99 a month or US$109.99 a year, and the coach-facing Pro plan at US$79.99 a month or US$799.99 a year.
AJES competitors pay nothing for their tournament reports. AJES junior members get a three-month free trial of the 3D Player subscription, plus partner pricing on annual plans for them and their coaches. The trial is a nice extra, but the tournament portfolio is the bigger win. A coach cares more about data from competition than about practice clips, and that’s the data AJES players get for free.
The Golfer-Founder Behind It
Sportsbox AI was founded in 2020 by Jeehae Lee and Samuel Menaker. Lee is a former player on the LPGA Tour, the top US women’s professional circuit. She later managed Michelle Wie West’s career and led strategy at Topgolf’s Toptracer ball-tracking business. Menaker is an AI engineer who spent more than two decades in software, including at speech-recognition pioneer Voicebox Technologies.
The app’s most famous fan is now its owner. In April 2026, a group led by Bryson DeChambeau, the two-time U.S. Open champion, acquired Sportsbox AI. DeChambeau has credited the app’s analysis of his swing for his 2024 U.S. Open win, and he said the aim is to put premium coaching within reach of “anyone with a smartphone.” Tour coaches Sean Foley and Dana Dahlquist are among its users.
Lee framed the AJES deal around recruitment. She said the goal is to give juniors “tour-level insights” and to “democratize access to college recruitment process with objective data on players’ skills and movement quality.”
A Tour Director’s View
Cheng Jin, AJES tournament director and a professional player himself, first came across the system three years ago through DeChambeau’s coaching team. “For junior players, using Sportsbox AI to obtain their relevant data allows for direct comparison with professional player data, thereby clarifying their own deficiencies and gaps,” he said.
That comparison is where a 15-year-old learns the most. Seeing that your hip turn trails a tour pro’s by a clear margin is far more useful than a coach telling you to “rotate more” for the hundredth time.
Data Helps, Scores Still Count
A dose of realism is fair here. Treat the 3D reports as a strong coaching tool, not a substitute for results.
Rankings still carry the most weight with coaches, and AJES covers that side too. Standout players can earn exemptions into American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) tournaments in the US. The smart play is to pair the two: let your scores get a coach’s attention, then let your swing portfolio show you’re still improving.
The Season Tees Off in Beijing
The inaugural AJES season runs three regional tournaments and one grand finale.
Registration for the AJES Beijing Classic is still open, and players outside China, including Singapore juniors, can register by emailing tournaments@ajesgolf.com. A November start leaves plenty of time to build a full season of swing data before college applications heat up.
🗓️ Date: 18 to 20 November 2026 (season opener)
📍 Location: Beijing Topwin Golf and Country Club, Beijing
📊 Every competitor: Free Sportsbox AI 3D swing reports from each tournament
📱 AJES members: Three-month free trial of the 3D Player plan, plus partner pricing on annual plans for players and coaches
✉️ Registration: International players, including those in Singapore, can email tournaments@ajesgolf.com
🏆 Rest of the season: two more regional tournaments, then the annual grand finale
For a young golfer in Asia, getting seen by a US college coach has usually depended on money and airfare. A season on this tour now comes with swing data that travels for free. If college golf is the goal for you or someone at home, check the schedule and registration on the Asian Junior Elite Series website, and see how the swing analysis works on Sportsbox AI before sending in that entry email.
Visuals courtesy of Asian Junior Elite Series.
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