Matt McCarty added to his growing trophy case on Wednesday.
McCarty, 26, won the Jack Nicklaus Award as the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Player of the Year. McCarty was a unanimous choice as voted by Korn Ferry Tour players.
In his third season on the feeder circuit, McCarty finished first on the KFT points list thanks to three victories and six other top-10 finishes. McCarty’s three wins all came within a 35-day span from July to August, and his 68.38 scoring average broke the Korn Ferry Tour record for the lowest single-season scoring average by a player with at least 60 rounds played. For capturing the points title he earned exemptions into the 2025 U.S. Open and Players Championship.
McCarty also gained fully-exempt status on tour for 2025 and became just the 13th player in league history to earn a “battlefield promotion”—an immediate jump to the PGA Tour—for winning three times in a season, although he quickly surpassed those goodies by winning the Black Desert Championship this fall. The win granted McCarty two extra years of PGA Tour status, along with an invitation to the 2025 Masters.
Past KFT Players of the Year include Scottie Scheffler, Sungjae Im, Jimmy Walker, Zach Johnson, Stewart Cink and Tom Lehman.
This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
