On Thursday, he was one of the first four to earn spots on the 10-member U.S. Walker Cup team set to compete in September at Lahinch Golf Club in Ireland. Stout, a rising senior at Oklahoma State, returns from last year’s American squad that pulled out victory over Great Britain & Ireland at Cypress Point. So does his OSU teammate Ethan Fang, who also qualified on Thursday. The other two landing on the 2026 team are standout Tyler Watts, an automatic qualifier based of his WAGR ranking, and fellow standout junior Miles Russell, picked by the USGA Team Selection committee. That committee is expected to name additional players ahead of next month’s U.S. Amateur, with the winner there and the winner of the McCormack Medal automatically making the team if they’re Americans.