Qualifiers for The Sentry 2025
Chris Kirk
Kirk’s win at Kapalua comes in his first attempt at the PGA Tour’s year-opening event in eight years after he punched his ticket to Maui by winning the Palm Beach event last spring.
Grayson Murray
Murray drained a 39-foot birdie on the first extra hole, the par-5 18th at Waialae Country Club, to win the Sony Open for his second PGA TOUR title – his first since the 2017 Barbasol Championship.
Matthieu Pavon
Matthieu Pavon made an 8-foot putt for a dramatic birdie on No. 18 at Torrey Pines South for a one-shot victory in the Farmers Insurance Open on Saturday. His final-round 3-under 69 put him at 13 under, one stroke better than Nicolai Højgaard.
Wyndham Clark
Clark’s attempt for eagle from 26 feet after two crisp shots into the famed par-5 18th drifted off just shy of the cup, and what was left was a tap-in for birdie and a 12-under 60, the best round ever recorded on a links that welcomed its first shots when Woodrow Wilson was sitting U.S. President.
Nick Taylor
Nick Taylor stood on the par-3 16th hole at the WM Phoenix Open on a chilly yet sun-kissed Sunday afternoon in the Arizona desert, with a chance to send the fans into a frenzy on golf’s loudest hole. The soft-spoken Taylor – former world No. 1 amateur, winner of last year’s RBC Canadian Open – relished the amped-up setting.
Hideki Matsuyama
Hideki Matsuyama set the Riviera record for the lowest closing round by a winner Sunday in The Genesis Invitational, giving the Japanese star another record that means far more to him. Matsuyama rallied from a six-shot deficit with a 9-under 62 at The Riviera Country Club, punctuated by consecutive shots inside a foot, to win for the ninth time on the PGA TOUR. That breaks the record for Asian-born players he shared with K.J. Choi of South Korea.
Jake Knapp
Knapp finally made his first birdie Sunday on the par-4 seventh and added just one more circle on his scorecard on the par-5 14th. His four closing pars were plenty; when Valimaki had to take an unplayable after his tee shot on the 72nd hole ended up against an out-of-bounds fence, Knapp was able to enjoy the walk up to the 18th green and soak it all in.
Austin Eckroat
Eckroat parred the 11th, then stuck his approach on the par-4 12th to 7 feet. He holed the birdie, then added another birdie on No. 13 to stretch his lead to its biggest all afternoon. A bogey on the par-4 14th momentarily let the field back into it, with Lee just two shots back, but Eckroat poured in another birdie on the par-4 16th to seal it. All that was left was maneuvering The Bear Trap's last leg. With water looming short of the par-3 17th, Eckroat safely landed his tee shot on the green, 30 feet above the hole. He finished par-par to cap a convincing victory.
Brice Garnett
Brice Garnett holed a 15-foot birdie putt on the fourth playoff hole Sunday to win the Puerto Rico Open in his first tournament of the year, sending him to THE PLAYERS Championship next week and giving him PGA TOUR status for the next three years.
Scottie Scheffler
Scheffler began Sunday’s final round at 12-under, five back of 54-hole leader Xander Schauffele, but the Texan gained two strokes at the tricky par-4 fourth hole, holing a wedge from 92 yards. He added an 18-foot birdie at No. 5 and back-to-back birdies at Nos. 8 and 9, draining putts from 16 and 11 feet respectively. He turned in 5-under 31, moving into a share of the lead at the time at 17-under with Schauffele and Wyndham Clark (both in the final group, playing No. 7 at the time).
Peter Malnati
Malnati drew good fortune in that a sprinkler head impeded his natural stance to play the shot. The nearest point of relief (within one club length, no closer to the hole) was in the fringe; Malnati called over Steve Rintoul, PGA TOUR Vice President, Rules and Officiating, who confirmed the free drop. (A sprinkler head is considered an immovable obstruction under Rule 16.1.)
Stephan Jaeger
Stephan Jaeger won his first PGA TOUR event in his 135th attempt, closing with nine straight pars for a 3-under 67 and avoiding a playoff when Scottie Scheffler missed a 5-foot birdie putt on the final hole Sunday. Scheffler and Jaeger both missed good birdie chances on the 17th, and Scheffler had one last chance on the 18th. Jaeger finished at 12-under 268 and cracks the top 50 in the Official World Golf Rankings for the first time.
Akshay Bhatia
Bhatia opened his final round with two statement-making birdies, stretching his lead to six. He parred the third, then dripped a 6-foot birdie putt into the heart of the hole at the fourth. Bhatia was 18-under par. He was unflappably locked into his task. Only McCarthy, at 12-under, held the dimmest hope of catching him.
Bhatia simply never let the stakes crush his focus. He shot a 5-under 67 with the lead and his first Masters invitation in the offing. He flinched once, on the par-4 10th, missing a 6-foot par putt for his only bogey of the round. But he steadied on the par-4 11th with his fourth birdie of the round.
Billy Horschel
Billy Horschel went to the Dominican Republic for the first time in search of momentum and came away with a PGA TOUR victory he sorely needed Sunday. Horschel ran off four straight birdies on the front nine to get in the mix, began to pull away with an eagle on the par-5 12th hole and closed with a 9-under 63 for a two-shot victory in the Corales Puntacana Championship.
Rory McIlroy & Shane Lowry
Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry received a standing ovation when they showed up at historic, creole French Quarter restaurant Arnaud’s on the eve of their final round at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans team event. They also had the largest, loudest galleries at TPC Louisiana, where the charismatic, 34-year-old McIlroy, had not previously played.
Taylor Pendrith
After a wrenching sequence of holes that saw his one-shot lead tied on the 16th and lost on the 17th, the 32-year-old Canadian holed a short putt for birdie Sunday at the par-5 finisher to win his first PGA TOUR title in 74 starts. He shot a final-round 67 to finish at 23-under par on a steamy, soggy TPC Craig Ranch and beat Ben Kohles by one.
Chris Gotterup
Chris Gotterup won the inaugural Myrtle Beach Classic on Sunday for his first PGA TOUR title, closing with a 4-under 67 for a six-stroke victory at The Dunes Golf and Beach Club. Four strokes ahead entering the round, Gotterup bogeyed the first two holes, then rebounded with a birdie-eagle-birdie burst on the next three. The 24-year-old former University of Oklahoma player won in his 27th TOUR start, finishing at 22-under 262.
Xander Schauffele
Xander Schauffele ate Italian food and watched basketball the night before the biggest round of his career. He got up and down for a hard-fought par at the 17th hole, setting the stage for the drama at the last. His drive on 18 stopped in an awkward spot just outside the edge of another fairway bunker, necessitating a wild stance in which his feet were well below the ball. With only a fleeting thought for the worst-case scenario – a shank into the water – Schauffele gripped down on a long iron … and caught it perfectly.
Davis Riley
Riley won his first individual tournament in 89 starts on the PGA TOUR with a gutty, gritty 14-under-par score (266) at historic Colonial. He shot 66-64-66-70. Only Riley kept damage to a minimum. He made just seven bogeys through four rounds. He led the field in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green at 11.4, ranked second in Approach the Green (7.9) and fourth in Putting, with 5.9. It was even, steady golf for the 27-year-old from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, who starred at Alabama with fellow TOUR players Lee Hodges and Robby Shelton.
Robert MacIntyre
Robert MacIntyre, with father Dougie at his side as his caddie, held on to win the RBC Canadian Open on Sunday for his first PGA TOUR title. Four strokes ahead entering the final round at Hamilton Golf & Country Club, MacIntyre shot a 2-under 68 to beat playing partner Ben Griffin by a stroke. On the par-4 18th, the 27-year-old Scottish left-hander two-putted for par from 12 feet, holing out from 1 1/2 feet.
Cam Davis
Davis opened his Sunday at Detroit Golf Club with a bogey before settling in with three birdies over his next six holes on the front side. He bogeyed the par-5 14th before two-putting for birdie on the penultimate hole of the championship. Davis, who won the 2021 Rocket Mortgage Classic in a playoff, made a gritty up-and-down from off the green on No. 18 to finish at 18 under.
Davis Thompson
In what started as a crowded final-round race for the John Deere Classic trophy, Davis Thompson quickly found himself running alone on Sunday. He lapped the field with birdies on six of his first nine holes en route to a closing 7-under 64 at TPC Deere Run, a tournament record-setting total of 28-under 256, and a four-shot win over a trio of runners-up. In his second year and 63rd start on the PGA TOUR, the 25-year-old blossoming star from Georgia became the 24th player to score his first PGA TOUR victory in the 53-year history of the Quad Cities event.
Harry Hall
Harry Hall chipped in for birdie from 45 feet on the third hole of a playoff to win the ISCO Championship for his first PGA TOUR title. The 26-year-old Englishman closed with a 3-under 69 to get into the playoff with Matt NeSmith, Pierceson Coody, Zac Blair and Rico Hoey. They finished at 22-under 266 on Keene Trace’s Champion Trace in the event co-sanctioned by the DP World Tour.
Nick Dunlap
Nick Dunlap became the first player in PGA TOUR history to win as an amateur and a professional in the same year, rallying Sunday for a two-point victory in the Barracuda Championship. In January at The American Express in La Quinta, the 20-year-old Dunlap, then a sophomore at the University of Alabama, became the eighth amateur to win a TOUR event and the first in 33 years. He turned professional days later.
Jhonattan Vegas
Jhonattan Vegas paced around the 18th tee at TPC Twin Cities. Seven years since his last PGA TOUR win, the wait for the fairway to clear felt just as long. Nearby, Matt Kuchar told stories of Masters practice rounds. Vegas hadn’t been since 2018. That could change in a matter of minutes. Tied with clubhouse leader Max Greyserman, Vegas needed a birdie. He couldn’t let his mind wander elsewhere. Vegas tapped in and secured a one-shot victory at the 3M Open, his fourth on TOUR and first since winning the RBC Canadian Open back-to-back in 2016 and 2017. He moved to 66th in the FedExCup and likely earned a spot in the Playoffs.
Aaron Rai
England’s Aaron Rai earned his first TOUR title with a closing birdie for an 18-under 262 total at Sedgefield Country Club, two strokes clear of Max Greyserman, who led by four strokes with five holes to play but suffered a quadruple bogey at No. 14 and a four-putt double bogey at No. 16. Rai entered the week in fine form with three top-seven finishes in his last four starts, and his maiden TOUR triumph was a natural progression.
Keegan Bradley
Keegan Bradley went from the last man in the BMW Championship to a winner Sunday, closing with an even-par 72 for a one-shot victory that opened up all sorts of possibilities he never imagined possible a week ago. Bradley pulled away from mistake-prone Adam Scott early on the back nine and delivered a clutch shot into the par-5 17th that all but sealed the seventh victory of his PGA TOUR career, and the most unlikely.
Patton Kizzire
Patton Kizzire claims his third PGA TOUR title after winning the 2024 Procore Championship. Kizzire shot rounds of 66-65-67-70 to finish 20-under.
Kevin Yu
In his second season on TOUR, Kevin Yu claimed his first career victory at the Sanderson Farms Championship and moved up 36 spots to No. 60 in the FedExCup Fall Standings.
Matt McCarty
McCarty, who won three times on the Korn Ferry Tour over the summer to earn a promotion to the PGA TOUR, shot a final-round 67 to win the Black Desert by three over Stephan Jaeger (68).
J.T. Poston
Poston earned his third PGA TOUR title with a one-shot victory over Doug Ghim, burying a 4-foot par putt on the final hole to avoid a playoff. Poston built a three-stroke lead into the final round at TPC Summerlin and outlasted a hard-charging Ghim (65) with a final-round, 4-under 67.
Nico Echavarria
The native of Colombia, who won the 2023 Puerto Rico Open for his maiden TOUR title, fired a final-round 67 at ACCORDIA GOLF Narashino Country Club to top Justin Thomas and Max Greyserman by one. Echavarria had a 3-foot attempt of his own for the win on the final hole and the 30-year-old calmly drained it.
Rafa Campos
With just two events left in 2024, Campos looked unlikely to keep his full TOUR card. But after a 9-under 62 Saturday – one off tying the course record – he was firmly in the mix for his first TOUR title. He delivered Sunday with a 3-under 68, good for a three-shot win over Andrew Novak at 19-under 265. He improved to No. 80 in the FedExCup Fall standings.