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Oct 20, 2025, 07:38 PM ET
The PGA Tour is returning to Austin, Texas, for a FedEx Cup Fall event next year with the popular YouTube group “Good Good Golf” as a title sponsor for the first time.
The Good Good Championship will be held Nov. 12-15 on the Fazio Canyons Course at the Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa.
The PGA Tour previously held the Dell Match Play at Austin Country Club from 2016 through 2023. That was a World Golf Championship that had the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Ranking.
Fall events typically do not feature many of the top players; rather it is a time for those who finish out of the top 70 in the FedEx Cup to try to finish among the top 100 to retain full cards for the following year.
The fall schedule is still being pieced together for 2026. Sponsorship for the Mississippi tournament ended this year, while the Las Vegas tournament ended last year.
Good Good Golf began in 2020 and has grown into one of the fastest-growing brands in the golf entertainment space with its enormous following on YouTube. The brand in March announced a $45 million funding round by Creator Sports Capital, aimed at expanding Good Good Golf across content, retail and live events.
“This tournament is designed to amalgamate our social and live communities together, across all demographics that are passionate about golf,” said Matt Kendrick, founder and CEO of Good Good. “We couldn’t ask for better partners in the PGA Tour and Omni Hotels & Resorts, who not only appreciate our ethos but embrace it.”
The PGA Tour has tried to embrace such groups with its Content Creator Classic series that have been staged at some of its bigger events. This is the first such digital brand to become a title sponsor.
The size of the purse was not announced. Most FedEx Cup Fall events have lowered prize funds this year to the $6 million range. The fall events still offer full FedEx Cup points (500 points to the winner) and a two-year exemption, but winners no longer get into the Masters.
Pro golf is returning to Austin, Texas — and it’s bringing the YouTube generation along with it.
On Monday morning, the PGA Tour announced its return to Austin for the Good Good Championship, a PGA Tour fall season event that will debut in 2026 and be title-sponsored by the popular YouTube golf brand. Like most other PGA Tour fall season events, the Good Good Championship will be aired on Golf Channel and ESPN+, will feature a field of 120 players and will award 500 FedEx Cup points to the winner, in line with regular-season Tour events.
The announcement marks pro golf’s return to a market in which it has long flourished, and to a city from which many were sad to see the sport depart when the WGC Match Play was discontinued in 2023. Events that overlap with the NFL season (the inaugural Good Good Championship will be played from Nov. 12-15) might not generate as many headlines or as much revenue as regular-season events, but they still help the Tour reap a chunk of its $700 million per year in TV rights agreements, and many millions more in title-sponsorship deals like Good Good’s.
For the title-sponsors of thisevent, the news is a strong indicator of the growth of YouTube golf into a golf-industry bonafide. The Tour title sponsorship marks the latest expansion for Good Good across the golf space following a $45 million fundraising round in the spring. While the biggest focus for the Good Good brand from that fundraising round appeared to be the expansion of its prolific YouTube and e-commerce businesses, the Tour sponsorship represents a swing of a different kind. From a brand awareness standpoint, it might be Good Good’s biggest move to date, fully bridging the gap between YouTube golf and its establishment friends at the Tour.
While the cost of the Good Good sponsorship was not disclosed, title sponsorships for full-field PGA Tour events reportedly run between $12-15 million per event — though fall events, which typically draw weaker fields than those in the regular season, may cost less. According to the release, the deal is a “multi-year partnership.”
The Tour’s continued reimagining of its competitive calendar has led to questions about the sustainability of events outside of the Tour’s main sprint from January through late-August. Today, the fall season is the preferred spot for Tour lifers and youngsters fighting for status, though the low-wattage nature of those tournaments relative to the rest of the season has made it easy to envision changes. The Tour’s new “Future Competition Committee” was created in large part to find long-term solutions for pieces of the Tour business like the fall season, even if that chunk of the schedule remains entrenched for the time being. (Golf Channel will handle linear TV coverage of the Good Good Championship, per the Tour’s release.)
The new Tour event also will welcome a new tournament host: the Omni Barton Creek, which will take over hosting duties from Austin Country Club, the longtime host site of the WGC Match Play.
One of golf’s top influencer brands is sponsoring the PGA Tour’s return to Austin, Texas.
Good Good Golf, which boasts nearly 2 million subscribers on YouTube, will serve as the title sponsor for the Good Good Championship, which will take place Nov. 12-15 at Omni Barton Creek Resort and Spa’s Fazio Canyons Course.
“The PGA Tour is proud to return to the great City of Austin for the first time since 2023 for the Good Good Championship, an exciting new event as part of the FedExCup Fall,†said Tyler Dennis, the PGA Tour’s chief competitions officer. “We are pleased to partner with Good Good Golf and Omni Hotels & Resorts on this unique event as the PGA Tour further connects and engages with our game’s younger fans.â€
Added Matt Kendrick, founder and CEO of Good Good. “This tournament is designed to amalgamate our social and live communities together, across all demographics that are passionate about golf. We couldn’t ask for better partners in the PGA Tour and Omni Hotels & Resorts, who not only appreciate our ethos but embrace it.â€
The tournament is expected to be one of two additions to the 2026 fall schedule along with the Mexico Open, which would move from its usual spring slot, per the Sports Business Journal.
The PGA Tour held the Dell Technologies Match Play at Austin Country Club from 2016 to 2023.
Oct 19, 2025, 06:19 PM ET
RICHMOND, Va. — Justin Leonard stayed patient with his putting on a windy Sunday and watched it pay big dividends with a birdie-par-eagle finished for a 4-under 68 and a one-shot victory over Ernie Els in the Dominion Energy Charity Classic.
Leonard won for the second time this year on the PGA Tour Champions and moved into top 10 after the first playoff event for the Charles Schwab Cup.
The top 54 advance to the second postseason event next week in Arkansas.
Els was in control on the back nine of the James River course at the Country Club of Virginia and appeared to steady himself with birdies on reachable par-4 15th and the par-5 16th.
But he bogeyed the 17th as Leonard made his move. After a birdie on the 16th, Leonard hit a hybrid 4-iron to about 20 feet and holed the downhill eagle putt to post at 12-under 204.
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Els failed to make a 10-foot birdie putt on the closing hole that would have forced a playoff. He closed with a 72 and shared second place with Thomas Bjorn (68).
Bernhard Langer, the 68-year-old German who has won every year on the PGA Tour Champions since turning 50, was within two shots of the lead until a long three-putt bogey ended his hopes. He shot 72 and finished three back in his bid for a first Champions win this year.
Scott Parel shot 71 and tied for 21st, moving up three spots to No. 53 to advance to the Simmons Bank Championship next week. David Bransdon fell out.
The top 36 after next week reach the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship.
RICHMOND, Va. — Justin Leonard stayed patient with his putting on a windy Sunday and watched it pay big dividends with a birdie-par-eagle finished for a 4-under 68 and a one-shot victory over Ernie Els in the Dominion Energy Charity Classic.
Leonard won for the second time this year on the PGA Tour Champions and moved into top 10 after the first playoff event for the Charles Schwab Cup.
The top 54 advance to the second postseason event next week in Arkansas.
Els was in control on the back nine of the James River course at the Country Club of Virginia and appeared to steady himself with birdies on reachable par-4 15th and the par-5 16th.
But he bogeyed the 17th as Leonard made his move. After a birdie on the 16th, Leonard hit a hybrid 4-iron to about 20 feet and holed the downhill eagle putt to post at 12-under 204.
Els failed to make a 10-foot birdie putt on the closing hole that would have forced a playoff. He closed with a 72 and shared second place with Thomas Bjorn (68).
Bernhard Langer, the 68-year-old German who has won every year on the PGA Tour Champions since turning 50, was within two shots of the lead until a long three-putt bogey ended his hopes. He shot 72 and finished three back in his bid for a first Champions win this year.
Scott Parel shot 71 and tied for 21st, moving up three spots to No. 53 to advance to the Simmons Bank Championship next week. David Bransdon fell out.
The top 36 after next week reach the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship.
When Jeffrey Kang was in college at the University of Southern California, he’d sometimes earn some extra cash by helping head coach Chris Zambri with his junior golf clinics. For Zambri, it was simple: He’d point at Kang, one of the most decorated recruits in program history, and say to the kids, “This is what it takes.â€
If only Kang knew then just how much it would take.
Kang’s long and winding road to the PGA Tour culminated last Sunday in French Lick, Indiana, where the 34-year-old prodigy turned journeyman ended the Korn Ferry Tour Championship ranked 14th in points and grabbed one of 20 available cards for 2026.
“It took a lot of patience, a lot of self-talk, just believing in myself and trusting that it was all going to work out in the end. It’s been tough, but this is why we do it,†said Kang, who in the aftermath of the card ceremony was, like most everybody else, not only soaking up the moment but also in champagne and Michelob Ultra.
“I’m just really happy I stuck it out.â€
What has proven an arduous journey began in Fullerton, California, just outside of Los Angeles, where it all once came easy and where Kang developed into a standout not only at Sunny Hills High but nationally. Student-athletes of Kang’s ilk – talented, smart and from the West Coast – usually matriculated to Stanford. But when Kang verbally committed to the Trojans, Zambri was so content with his Class of 2010 haul, which also included another AJGA All-American in Ramsey Sahyoun, that he didn’t care that it meant a kid by the name of Patrick Cantlay heading to crosstown-rival UCLA. Cantlay would win the Haskins Award, given to the best player in the nation, as a freshman. But Kang had done alright, too, an all-Pac-10 selection his first year and All-American honorable mention the following season, which included a playoff victory over Jordan Spieth in Hawaii. Midway through college, however, Kang’s prospects veered quickly.
“It was the lowest I’ve still ever been,†Kang said of the driver yips that debilitated him for large swaths of his final two years in school and beyond.
There were two misses: a ball that started 7 degrees right and ended up off the planet, and then the massive overcorrection. It didn’t really matter the club, either.
“And over time, it made his swing hub very unstable,†said instructor Dana Dahlquist, who worked about seven years with Kang after graduation. “I described it as a motorcycle not able to go through the turns.â€
Kang never missed a round for the Trojans as a junior or senior, though that was more indicative of the state of those USC rosters. The situation got so dire for Kang that Zambri, known for meticulously testing his players during his career (he’s now the head coach of the U.S. National Development Program), exempted Kang from such practice mandates, hoping that Kang, still one of the hardest workers to come through USC, could solve things on his own. Kang nearly won in Hawaii his senior spring before Oklahoma State’s Jordan Niebrugge sped past him late, but that was a rare bright spot in an otherwise frustrating semester. The Trojans placed dead last by eight shots at the 2014 NCAA Championship at Prairie Dunes, and Kang, in his last college event, tied for 150th, beating just five players.
“A lot of guys have stepped away from the game because of this,†Kang said. “But I always knew I was going to get over the hump, and I never doubted my ability.â€
With Dahlquist’s help, Kang changed his wrist conditions and how he releases the club, and eventually he went from a guy too afraid to commit to a line because he didn’t know what would “come out of the gun†to someone who had begun to not only manage his driving anxiety but reprogram his path to PGA Tour-level golf.
It took Kang a couple years to earn any status, and then he missed seven cuts and posted just one top-50 showing on PGA Tour Canada in 2016. He headed to Asia that next year, finding a home on PGA Tour China, where he won in his debut. But the pandemic shuttered that tour and left Kang again with nowhere to play. He didn’t log a world-ranked start for nearly 20 months.
“COVID derailed everything,†Kang said. “I was on the up and then I’m sidelined. I couldn’t get anywhere. Just surviving was an achievement. So, I had to restart a little bit, but looking back that’s probably the best thing that ever happened to me. It was a forced break mentally to refresh me and allow me to start from the bottom, stick to a game plan and get to where I need to be. It was a blessing in disguise.â€
During that sabbatical, Kang reconnected with a high-school friend, Josh Park, an up-and-coming coach, during some mini-tour events in Arizona. They’d spend hours on end talking about golf, and eventually Park joined Kang’s stable. Along with Dahlquist and Dr. Scott Lynn, Park got Kang using the ground more effectively, specifically pushing off earlier to get the club to release earlier. His tee ball continued to improve.
“He, along with all of us, knew that if kept that driver on the hole he was supposed to play, then he would one day end up on the PGA Tour,†said Park, who started working full-time with Kang about two years ago.
Kang played mostly on PGA Tour Canada, and the temporary Forme Tour, from 2021 to 2023, notching 10 top-10s, including three runners-up. While sprinkling in a few PGA Tour starts via Monday qualifying, he medaled at the second stage of PGA Tour Q-School in 2023 and earned his KFT card for the first time last year. But 14 missed cuts in 24 starts left him No. 81 in points, and he’d begin this season with conditional status before rattling off three missed cuts in his first four events.
Then, finally, the breakthrough: A T-3 finish at the Visit Knoxville Open jumpstarted Kang’s season, and he added a pair of solo seconds late, at the NV5 Invitational and Albertsons Boise Open, to enter the KFT Finals inside the top 20. When he tied for fourth in Columbus, Ohio, he’d essentially locked up his card with two events left. Sure, he finished this season ranked No. 133 in total driving, but as the tour’s third-best putter and one of the best wedge players Park has ever seen, that was enough to get him to the PGA Tour.
Park says that Kang, armed with his USC degree, could’ve been successful in anything outside of golf, but “he never quit when most of us would have.†The sun setting on a dream day in southern Indiana, and Post Malone’s “Congratulations†blaring in the background, Kang credited people like Park and his girlfriend, Ji, for keeping him going.
Worked so hard, forgot how to vacation.
They ain’t never had the dedication.
People hatin’, say we changed and look, we made it.
Yeah, we made it.
“He persevered through some really hard times, and I just have so much respect for that,†said Zambri, who traveled to watch Kang compete in Raleigh, North Carolina, this year. “Not everyone gets to keep pursuing until they’re in their 30s. He was fortunate, but he made the most of it. And I hope it continues to work out for him. It’s not easy to go from where he was to get back in the middle of it all.
“I’m hoping he has like a Tom Lehman type of career.â€
Lehman played a few seasons on the PGA Tour right out of college but with little success. It then took him nearly a decade to regain his card. What followed was an almost two-decade second stint on the PGA Tour, where he won five times, including the Open Championship and Tour Championship in 1996, and made three Ryder Cup teams.
Kang will take that.
Zach Bauchou was prepared to receive the news.
He and his wife Victoria had spent eight months preparing for the arrival of their first child in the summer and fall of 2023. Now, well into the third trimester, they knew their new arrival could come on any day at any time.
Bauchou just wasn’t prepared to receive the news when he did: On the 12th hole of PGA Tour final qualifying, with his PGA Tour dream firmly hanging in the balance.
It was two years ago that Bauchou made his career’s most agonizing decision, leaving behind a chance at his lifelong dream in order to be at his wife’s bedside as she delivered their first child. Of course, Bauchou never flinched when he was approached by the rules official with the news that his wife was due to go into labor five weeks early. The official told him he could choose to continue competing or withdraw.
Bauchou calmly informed the official of the plan he and Victoria had chosen weeks earlier: He would withdraw from the event, and hop on the first flight home. The next day, Bauchou was in the hospital as his first son, James, entered the world — and though he was overjoyed, his emotions around leaving the golf tournament were understandably mixed.
Then 27 years old, Bauchou had spent most of his working life pushing toward an opportunity like PGA Tour final qualifying — where a handful of the Korn Ferry Tour’s best players would earn a Tour card for the following year based on their performance that weekend. After a successful career at Oklahoma State, he’d battled just to earn a spot onto one of golf’s feedertours, then battled again to get his game in the place where he might considerqualifying for the big show. Now, his WD had raised the possibility that he might lose his Korn Ferry status, too, given the breakdown of the points for the year’s final event.
Thankfully, Bauchou kept his Korn Ferry Tour status and began the 2024 season with a fresh goal to make it to PGA Tour. But that goal continued to prove elusive. He fell short of qualifying for a Tour card in 2024 by just three spots.
Bauchou turned for 2025 with a second baby on the way and a renewed sense of clarity: It was time to make one final push for the PGA Tour in his age 29 season, getting on Tour in time to celebrate his 30th birthday.
With two boys watching from home, Bauchou pieced together the best golf of his life in ’25, winning for the first time at the Simmons Bank Open and qualifying for the U.S. Open after a dramatic (and emotional) final qualifying run, his first major start as a pro.
By the time last weekend’s Korn Ferry Tour Championship came around, Bauchou’s fate was sealed. By virtue of a 9th-place points finish in 2025, he earned PGA Tour status for 2026.
With his family by his side, Bauchou celebrated in Florida as he received his official PGA Tour card. He will be a PGA Tour rookie in the new year, chasing down his childhood dream at the highest level. And he’ll do so with a family of three cheering on from up close.
Sure, he’d traded in a dream for his family in 2023. But the opportunity to have both? He wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Earning a PGA Tour card is a tremendously difficult task. But keeping it is no cake walk, either. Harder still? Winning back your card after losing it. Three PGA Tour veterans proved that the hard way on Sunday at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship, where they just missed out on reclaiming their Tour privileges.
After changes to qualification rules in recent years, only the top 20 finishers at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship earned PGA Tour cards for the 2026 season. You can read all about the fortunate few who punched their Tour tickets on Sunday here.
But in this space we’re concerned with the other side of the equation, the players who have lived the life of a PGA Tour pro, fought all year on the Korn Ferry Tour to get back and came up painfully short on Sunday.
The silver lining for these three pros? They all finished high enough in the Korn Ferry standings to earn full status there in 2026, where they’ll mount new campaigns to reclaim their cards.
PGA Tour pros who missed cards at KFT Championship
Justin Suh
Justin Suh, a 28-year-old former PGA Tour pro from San Jose, has played in 90 PGA Tour events in his pro golf career, earning two top-5 and five top-10 finishes.
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Suh played full season of 29 Tour events in 2024. But he only made 12 cuts and failed to record any top 10s. As a result, he finished 162nd in the FedEx Cup standings to lose his playing privileges and drop back to the Korn Ferry Tour.
On the Korn Ferry Tour this season, he won the Argentina Open in March and collected two other top 10s. But it wasn’t enough to move back to the big leagues.
Entering the Korn Ferry Tour Championship at 24th in the standings, just outside the top 20 who earns cards, Suh finished T31 to remain tantalizingly close but, ultimately, short of getting his card back.
Russell Knox
A 40-year-old Scottish pro, Russell Knox played successfully on the PGA Tour for several years, earning two victories at the 2015 WGC-HSBC Championship and the 2016 Travelers Championship.
But his last full season was 2022-23, when he made 23 of 37 cuts to finish 144th in the Fedex Cup standings and lose his Tour card.
He played in 10 Tour events in 2024 and then received three sponsor invites in 2025, missing two cuts and finishing 68th at the Corales Puntacana Championship.
Knox made 21 Korn Ferry Tour starts in 2025, earning a runner-up early in the season at the Bahamas Great Abaco Classic along with three other top 10s.
But a disappointing T55 finish at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship Sunday dropped Knox from 34th to 36th place in the final KFT standings, leaving him 16 spots short of reclaiming his PGA Tour card.
Dylan Wu
Twenty-nine-year-old Oregon native Dylan Wu should be familiar to many golf fans. He played 33 PGA Tour events in 2022-23, finishing 86th in the standings to maintain his card.
But in 28 starts in 2024, Wu only managed one top 10 and dropped to 119th in the FedEx Cup standings, losing his Tour card in the process. Though he got into 13 Tour events this past season and recorded some good finishes, he only got enough points to finish 170th in the standings.
He only played eight events on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2025, so a T31-finish on Sunday could only improve his position from 71st to 69th, well short of the Tour card cutoff.
The final round of the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour Championship started with two players who needed to win to earn their PGA Tour card leading the way.
For Barend Botha and Sandy Scott, only a win would put them in the top 20 and onto the PGA Tour. But Sunday at the Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort was not their day. Scott quickly faded, making three bogeys on his front nine en route to a final-round two-over 74 and a T8 finish. Botha lost the lead early as Chandler Blanchet, who had already clinched his PGA Tour card for next season, opened with three straight birdies. Botha hung tough but could not catch Blanchet, who shot a Sunday 66 to post 14 under and beat Botha by two.
Blanchet’s win saw him finish the season in second place on the Korn Ferry Tour points list just behind Johnny Keefer. The 29-year-old, who will be a PGA Tour rookie in 2026, became emotional after the final putt dropped and he turned his attention to what he hopes is a long future on the top circuit.
“I hope I can lead by example,” Blanchet told Golf Channel’s Brentley Romine about having his two kids watch him chase his dreams. “Hopefully we can be on the PGA Tour for a long time, and they can see that perseverance and hard work and translate that into their life.”
The drama was everywhere at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship. As the weekend leaderboard unfolded, Pontus Nyholm found himself at the center of it.
The 27-year-old Swede entered the week at 18th in the standings but fell onto the bubble over the weekend. With Botha making a weekend charge at the trophy, the pressure was ratcheted up on Nyholm to try to secure his card. On Sunday, the pressure came from Botha, who had to win to get his card, and Mitchell Meissner, who made a late charge as Nyholm leaked oil down the stretch, shooting a back-nine 40. Meissner birdied 12, 13, and 15 to enter the conversation and needed at least two more to finish to have a chance at catching Nyholm. But a wayward tee shot on 16 led to a bogey and caused Meissner to finish 21st in the standings.
“Grateful to be here and happy to have a chance.”
Mitchell Meissner finished one spot shy of earning a PGA Tour card. His emotional post round interview is worth a watch. pic.twitter.com/lRzkEvnEL0
— GOLF.com (@GOLF_com) October 12, 2025
“Really proud of how I fought,” Meissner told Romine after finishing one spot shy of his card. “It was cool to have a chance today. I’m grateful to be in this position. My buddy last night, he said, when I was a senior in college and going through the yips, I didn’t think I’d be in this spot. So grateful to be here and happy to have a chance.
After dodging Meissner, Nyholm just had to sweat out Botha’s Sunday charge. But once Blanchet held him off, Nyholm could exhale.
“Yeah, I’ve got a new favorite golfer in Chandler Blanchet,” Nyholm said after he secured his card.
On the other side of the coin was Zecheng “Marty” Dou. Three weeks ago, Dou was considered a long shot to make it back to the PGA Tour. But the 28-year-old posted a T2 finish at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship and followed that with a solo second at the Compliance Solutions Championship to jump into the top 20. Dou entered the Korn Ferry Championship at 19 and posted rounds of 72, 69, 72 and 72 to finish T18 and punch his ticket back to the PGA Tour.
“I haven’t really put much thought into getting my card this year,” Dou told Romine after the round. “I was just looking to get into Q School, maybe second stage or third stage. Two runner-ups, and suddenly it turns out to be getting my card. Coming in at 19, I was nervous all week.
“You want to show it on the best stage. Getting it done this week, I’m just looking forward to next year.”
Chandler Blanchet interview after winning Korn Ferry Tour Championship
Check out the full list of Korn Ferry Tour graduates below, in order of their finish on the Korn Ferry Tour points list.
2025 Korn Ferry Tour graduates
1. Johnny Keefer
2. Chandler Blanchet
3. Austin Smotherman
4. Neal Shipley
5. Emilio Gonzalez
6. Hank Lebioda
7. Adrien Dumont de Chassart
8. S.H. Kim
9. Christo Lamprecht
10. Davis Chatfield
11. Zach Bauchou
12. Pierceson Coody
13. S.T. Lee
14. Jeffrey Kang
15. Hensei Hirata
16. Trace Crowe
17. John VanDerLaan
18. Zecheng Dou
19. Sudarshan Yellamaraju
20. Pontus Nyholm
In the end, no one moved in or out of the top 20 in Korn Ferry Tour points at the season finale, where Chandler Blanchet prevailed by two shots over Barend Botha.
Blanchet picked up his second title of the year at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship, closing in 6-under 66 to finish at 14 under par. The 66 tied the lowest round of anyone on the week at The Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort.
The 29-year-old Floridian finished second on the season-long points list, where the top 20 earned PGA Tour cards for next year.
Johnny Keefer tied for 12th in French Lick, Indiana, good enough to retain his spot atop the standings. In addition to his PGA Tour card, the 24-year-old who had two wins this season, also earned spots in the 2026 Players Championship and U.S. Open. Perhaps more importantly, he is immune from the periodical reshuffles the other 19 graduates will endure next year.
Mitchell Meissner (T-37) was the first man out, staying in the 21st position in which he began the week. Botha needed to win in order to have a chance, but his final-round 70 left him in 28th place.
Previously, the Korn Ferry Tour was allotted 30 PGA Tour cards for the following season, but with the big tour reducing its threshold for full exempt status by 25 cards (down from 125 to 100), the developmental circuit also felt the squeeze.
Nos. 21-75 in points will have full KFT status next season and automatically advance to the final stage of PGA Tour Q-School in December, where five cards will be on offer.
Here are the top 20 finishers this season on the Korn Ferry Tour:
1. Johnny Keefer
2. Chandler Blanchet
3. Austin Smotherman
4. Neal Shipley
5. Emilio Gonzalez
6. Hank Lebioda
7. Adrien Dumont de Chassart
8. S.H. Kim
9. Christo Lamprecht
10. Davis Chatfield
11. Zach Bauchou
12. Pierceson Coody
13. S.T. Lee
14. Jeffry Kang
15. Kensei Hirata
16. Trace Crowe
17. John VanDerLaan
18. Marty Dou
19. Sudarshan Yellamaraju
20. Pontus Nyholm