Born in Lake Forest, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and played at Conway Farms Golf Club, which notably hosted the PGA TOUR’s BMW Championship for three years (2013, 2015, 2017). The Van Paris family relocated to Pinehurst, North Carolina around the time Jackson was 12 years old.

Upon moving to Pinehurst, North Carolina, the Van Paris family became members at the Country Club of North Carolina, which hosted the 1980 U.S. Amateur Championship (won by Hal Sutton) and 2021 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship (won by Nick Dunlap).

In August 2023, broke the course record at The Cradle, the 9-hole par-3 course at Pinehurst Resort, with a 9-under 18, highlighted by a hole-in-one on No. 6. The record-breaking score came six weeks after Van Paris carded a course-record 61 on Pinehurst No. 4 during the 2023 North and South Amateur Championship.