Among the notable players to earn the PGA Tour promotion were Australia’s Karl Vilips, who won on the Korn Ferry Tour in August, Matt McCarty, who won three KFT events and finished first in points, former PGA Tour pro Harry Higgs and former Pepperdine University star William Mouw.
Only an extraordinary chain of events stands between Karl Vilips and promotion to the PGA Tour in 2025, as Cassie Porter enters the Epson Tour Championship with one hand on an LPGA Tour card.
Harry Higgs has won the past two weeks on the Korn Ferry Tour. But he’s also won with his words during his victory speeches afterwards – for altogether different reasons.
The victory also locks up full PGA Tour status for Higgs next year, a place where he played each of the past four years before finishing 144th in the FedEx Fall standings in 2023.
Sydney-based tour pro John Lyras has seen his Korn Ferry Tour debut cut short today in the worst fashion possible way: a rules-based disqualification after an error on the first hole of the Bahamas Great Exuma Classic.
Good things come to those who wait, or at least those who play well. In the Ponte Vedra area of northeast Florida both are true for Sydney’s Harrison Endycott with the final round of the PGA Tour Qualifying School that he leads has been delayed 24 hours due to heavy rain.
In an e-mailed statement, the tour said Vince India and Jake Staiano placed bets on PGA Tour competitions, though did not bet on tournaments in which they were participants.
Paul Barjon, who played on the PGA Tour in 2022, was among five pros who were outside the top 30 mark on Thursday in Indiana only to work their way inside the bubble.