2025 Korn Ferry Tour graduates
This is a list of golfers who graduated from the Korn Ferry Tour in 2025. The top 20 players on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour points list earned PGA Tour cards for 2026.[1][2]
As part of changes to the PGA Tour's exemption system, the number of cards was reduced from 30 to 20, and all 20 graduates received fully-exempt status on the PGA Tour.[3]
| Player | Points rank |
Points | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnny Keefer* | 1 | 2,359 | |
| Chandler Blanchet* | 2 | 1,972 | |
| Austin Smotherman | 3 | 1,883 | |
| Neal Shipley† | 4 | 1,808 | |
| Emilio González* | 5 | 1,607 | |
| Hank Lebioda | 6 | 1,561 | |
| Adrien Dumont de Chassart | 7 | 1,457 | |
| Kim Seong-hyeon | 8 | 1,407 | |
| Christo Lamprecht* | 9 | 1,279 | |
| Davis Chatfield* | 10 | 1,279 | |
| Zach Bauchou* | 11 | 1,254 | |
| Pierceson Coody | 12 | 1,207 | |
| Lee Seung-taek* | 13 | 1,134 | |
| Jeffrey Kang* | 14 | 1,118 | |
| Kensei Hirata* | 15 | 1,087 | |
| Trace Crowe | 16 | 1,085 | |
| John VanDerLaan* | 17 | 1,084 | |
| Dou Zecheng | 18 | 1,072 | |
| Sudarshan Yellamaraju* | 19 | 1,058 | |
| Pontus Nyholm* | 20 | 1,031 |
*PGA Tour rookie in 2026
†First-time PGA Tour member in 2026, but ineligible for rookie status due to having played eight or more PGA Tour events as a professional in a previous season
See also
References
- ^ "2025 Korn Ferry Tour graduates: Meet the 20 newest PGA Tour members". PGA Tour. October 12, 2025.
- ^ "Korn Ferry Tour points list". PGA Tour. Retrieved October 12, 2025.
- ^ Hoggard, Rex (November 18, 2024). "PGA Tour policy board approves changes to decrease field sizes and alter eligibility". Golf Channel. Retrieved October 12, 2025.