PGA Tour pro wins 60th (!) Minor League Golf Tour event, cements status as all-time grinder

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If you’re a baseball fan, you know what it’s like to watch a player from “The Show” step down to the minor leagues from time to time. Sometimes they’re sent down for poor performance, other times it’s for an injury rehab assignment, but regardless of the circumstances, the result is almost always the same:

They dominate.

Professional golf isn’t quite the same, but if you’ve ever wondered how good these guys really are, PGA Tour pro Eric Cole provided the answer this week. Per Monday Q Info’s Ryan French, Cole entered and won the 2025 Minor League Golf Tour Championship, shooting 65-68 at Abacoa Golf Club to outlast University of Florida senior Mathew Kress. But that’s not the real headline. The real headline is that this was Cole’s 60th—yes, as in six-zero—MLGT win and fourth tour championship, all by the age of 37.

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That’s a remarkable run of dominance from the World No. 110, who had a solid year on the PGA Tour in 2025, posting two top-5s and four top-10s in 32 starts while pulling in over $2.3 million in winnings. Wednesday’s MLGT Championship victory moved Cole into second all-time in MLGT earnings behind Sunny Kim with $231,200.84. Needless to say, it’s not about the money for the fourth-year PGA Tour pro.

Simply put, Cole loves to compete and loves to win. With the PGA Tour continually shrinking its schedule and field sizes, opportunities for pros like him are becoming increasingly scarce. But no matter how insular and top-heavy things get on the world’s premier golf circuit, it seems like Cole is happy to grind it out on any tour that will have him. In a world where pampered pros are getting paid tens of millions more to play less, that’s refreshing indeed.

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This article was originally published on golfdigest.com