The 18-year-old American is on track to play tournament rounds on eight consecutive days across two different circuits – and is clearly warming to the task.
As first reported by Golf Channel’s Brentley Romaine, the tour will give $US150,000 to players Nos.126 and beyond on the prior season’s FedEx Cup points list.
Michael Brennan’s stunning win at the Bank of Utah Championship yesterday made him the most unlikely man to earn a PGA Tour card this year. It also led to a golf graphic-of-the-year candidate.
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.
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.
Australian Golf Digest
