The PGA Tour announced today that Australia’s Karl Vilips has been named the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Rookie of the Year, as voted by the Korn Ferry Tour membership.
Australia’s newest PGA Tour member, Karl Vilips, is heading home to play in his first ISPS Handa Australian Open as a professional on the famed Melbourne Sandbelt. He will be joined at Kingston Heath and Victoria golf clubs from November 28 to December 1 by American Harry Higgs, who is returning to the PGA Tour for the 2025 season, and Chile’s Cristobal Del Solar, who has been inspired to play in our Open by countryman and defending champion Joaquin Niemann.
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.
Karl Vilips says he’s already dreaming of representing Australia at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles after his Korn Ferry Tour win catapulted him to within reach of a PGA Tour card for next year.
Jason Day fell short in his quest for an Olympic medal in Paris but in the US, young Australian Karl Vilips claimed his first Korn Ferry Tour victory in just his fourth start as a professional at the Utah Championship.
The addition of Allan takes the Australian representation at Torrey Pines to seven, joining Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman, Adam Scott, Brad Kennedy, Wade Ormsby and Matt Jones.
It is one thing for a friend to say he has your back when there’s nothing to be gained or lost. It is quite another to trust him with the very thing that means the most to you.
Windred is bound for European Tour Q-School next month with a head full of confidence and a renewed outlook on what it takes to close out the biggest tournaments.
Australian Golf Digest
