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IRVING, Texas -- Guan Tianlang is one of five amateur players being honoured this week for the Byron Nelson International Junior Golf Awards. While the other four award recipients will be watching the Byron Nelson Championship, the 14-year-old Guan -- already the youngest player to make a cut on the PGA Tour -- is playing in the tournament. This is the second PGA Tour event for the eighth-grader from China since making the cut last month at the Masters. He also made the cut at New Orleans, where he first spoke with Nelson officials about playing this week. "Always a challenge, every tournament, because this is another big event ... this is only my third start and everything is still new to me," Guan said Wednesday, a day before the Nelsons opening round. "I have to play my best and make some good score." The youngsters impressive performance at Augusta has led to invitations to play in other events. He hopes to again be playing in the weekend rounds. "For this week, I want to enjoy the experience, great experience here," Guan said. "And hope to, yeah, make the cut. And if I make the cut hope to play better and better." There are two sponsor exemptions playing in this years Nelson: Guan and 19-year-old Jordan Spieth, the Dallas native playing at TPC Four Seasons for the third time. Spieth is playing as a pro this time, having made six of nine cuts and already won nearly $700,000 this season. As an amateur at the Nelson, he tied for 16th as a 16-year-old in 2010, then played on the same day as his high school graduation two years ago when he tied for 32nd. He played one season at the University of Texas before turning pro. "I think its incredible what hes doing," Spieth said about Guan. "He played beyond his years, the composure. I watched him at the Masters and honestly going into it, I thought it would be a little too much for him, and he surprised the whole world. Then to follow it up with a made cut in his second event." The two had what Spieth described as "small talk" when they were on the range next to each other in New Orleans. This week in the area Spieth calls home, they were near each other on the putting green. "It was just me and my bag, and he hes got a whole group of people," said Spieth, a past recipient of the Byron Nelson International Junior Golf Awards based on golf performance, academic success and community involvement. Guan has handled the pressure of playing PGA events. He said he prepared for the Masters for a long time, and that experience helped him in New Orleans and should help him this week. "Just a long way to go," Guan said, adding that he has learned a lot in just two starts. "Yeah, a little used to getting to know what to do on the tour. Best players in the world, what are they doing, what are they playing." Air Max 97 For Sale Cheap . 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Nathan Buckley is adamant there will be no white flag flown at Collingwood now the AFL finals are out of reach.The Magpies coach billed last Friday nights game against North Melbourne as a mini-final, but the Kangaroos beat them by 40 points.It means Collingwood will miss the top eight for the third season in a row - something that has not happened in 15 years.The Magpies will host fifth-placed West Coast on Saturday at the MCG.While Buckley lamented another poor start in the Kangaroos loss, he noted that his team fought back hard when North had control late in the third term.Collingwood managed to reduce the margin to 16 points in the last quarter before North kicked clear to win by 40.We probably had a choice, five minutes to go in the third quarter last week ... whether we put the white flag up or battle it out, he said.The next 30 minutes, for all intents and purposes, we could have been back level.But you dont want to be digging yourself out of holes like that.In a snapshot, it probably shows you what were capable of at our best.The North game also was a microcosm of Collingwoods season - good in parts, but not for often ennough.ddddddddddddWeve shown our game stacks up when we put it together and thats regardless of personnel, Buckley said.Weve also shown were not a good enough team yet to do it consistently.When were not on, we (need to be) at a seven out of 10, not dropping to a four or five or a three at times.Thats what good sides do.There were widespread expectations before this season that the Magpies would return to the finals.Buckley has said throughout this up-and-down year that his focus remains on developing the team for long-term success.He said the focus with team selection for the rest of the season would be on trying to win.And after three weeks of slow starts, Buckley will demand a better first term against the Eagles.Im happy to put us on the hook about that, he said.You need to play solid footy from the first siren to the last to be able to counter good sides - we werent able to do that last week.Buckley said it was a matter of doing the basics better, such as hitting targets and clean ball handling. 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