. The Chinese golfer had finished 36-holes at Augusta National with a score of 4 over. Two weeks ago 29-year-old Willie Mack III out of Flint, Mi., and Bethune Cookman University, shot a sizzling Who are you taking? List is the only player from the last decade to have led the tour in driving distance for the year and never won on tour. One of the most fascinating things about the top three players on this list is how similar their playing styles are. Age: Turns 23 on Dec. 27 2020 FedExCup finish: 71st PGA TOUR wins: 0. PGA Championships: 2007 Sony Open in Hawaii Cooper had the clubhouse lead at the 1936 Open after a then-record 72-hole score of 284. If youre wondering where he is now, hes at the University of Arizona. Youve heard plenty of writers on this very website wax poetic about the way he hits his irons. There are limited records on Dons personal life or professional game rankings, stats, or scores; still, the available archives indicate that he participated in the tournament, and withdrew from it after the first round. Age: 22 2020 FedExCup finish: 11th PGA TOUR wins: 1. In surviving the 36-hole cut, Panasik became the youngest player to make the cut at a PGA Tour. He also has a twin brother who plays professionally, and their dream is to some day play in the Ryder Cup together. After playing with Brooks Koepka in the 2018 NORTHERN TRUST, Wise decided he needed to bulk up in order to better handle approach shots from thick rough. Ah, yes. Lets let PGA runner-up Paul Casey take it from here: Theres always a bunch of guys that rock up on the scene, and he didnt necessarily get the most publicity out of the group he was in, but you know, I can consider myself veteran; Ive been around the block, so I know talent when I see it, Casey said. Here are 10 young guns in their 20s completely capable of getting the job done at this week's PGA Championship. 5 on the list which feels wrong, given his 1-3-T10 finishes right before the break is because he has just one top-50 finish since golfs return, a T35 at WGC-Memphis. Its been a roller-coaster rookie season on the PGA Tour for the lanky former University of Texas star. He also runs the Tajj Fujikawa Invitational Golf Tournament, an annual charity tournament whose proceeds go toward the March of Dimes. Finish: 58 January 3, 2021 at 8:30 PM. The next year he knocked off Armour in the Michigan Open. Shasta Averyhardt she qualified in 2010 for the 2011 tour. He has three top-4 finishes in his last eight starts. For that reason, the Cal product has made himself the clear frontrunner in the debate on which of these three will have the best career. (Note that Young Tom Morris won British Opens at age 17, 18 and 19, and those wins are counted as official by the PGA Tour. His win came at the 2009 British Amateur Championship, when he defeated Sam Hutsby from England in the finals. I'm excited for his future. Here are your options. With this week's NBA Draft in mind, we offer a look at the players in their 20s who arent yet in the class of Bryson DeChambeau or Jon Rahm or Xander Schauffele, but that we'd seriously look at choosing if we were building a golf franchise by starting with a youth movement. In 2005, Robert Panasik was inducted into theCanadian Golf Hall of Fame. Everyone (or almost everyone) knows the Matthew Wolffs, Scottie Schefflers and Collin Morikawas of the world. . The easiest and, arguably, most historic vote for the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year has gone to Will . The qualifying system is 1 point earned for every $1,000 won in PGA Tour events this year, with 1.5 points at the majors and double points for winning a major. Considering hes from Scotland and played his American college golf at McNeese State, MacIntyre is a bit of an unknown to most U.S. fans, but he likely wont be for long. Hovland ranked in the top 20 in both Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee and Approach-the-Green last season. Each of the three is significantly better than the average Tour player tee to green and notably worse around the green. Then theres unlucky No. The transition from schoolboy golf to the big leagues isnt supposed to be so simple. He said it wasnt until this January that the ankle stopped bothering him. He earned special temporary membership in his next start and now can accept unlimited sponsor exemptions for the remainder of the season. By Rickey Hampton, For TheAfricanAmericanAthlete.com All eyes are on Tiger Woods' resurgence as the 14-time major winner competes in the British Open this weekend, a victory by Woods would cap arguably the most productive three week stretch of golf by black professional golfers ever. He kept his card despite suffering a season-ending ankle injury in July. Amateur at Merion. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1975. 38 player in the world, despite the fact that hes never made a PGA Tour cut. From tee to green, Viktor Hovland is already one of the best golfers on the planet. "Any PGA of America member who is a U.S.-born player will be eligible to earn points," Kerry Haigh, the PGA of America's chief championships officer, said in an interview. You'll also see the lists of the all-time youngest PGA Tour winners, plus the youngest since 1970. World No. Now the LPGA tour can count among its ranks these players: Shasta Averyhardt, Sadena Parks, Mariah Stackhouse, Cheyenne Woods and Ginger Howard. The pandemic has also worked a bit in his favor as he now has a pretty strong path forward to getting his card on the Korn Ferry Tour. (AP Photo). Born: June 2, 1984 Raleigh, North Carolina Maybe. Despite his young age, Guan has competed in many professional tournaments around the world. He died in 2000 at the age of 96. His record 286 stood for 20 years. Guan Tianlang is a Chinese amateur golfer andthe youngest PGA player to participate and make the cut at Masters. As it turns out, that player is one who owns many career records -- including most Tour wins (82) -- the legendary Sam Snead. Week two in Florida and the PGA Tour has arrived in Orlando to stage the fourth 'Elite' event of 2023. Fans of the PGA Tour may not know this name, but give it some time. Haigh was alluding to 10 PGA Tour events that have a $20 million purse at least double what they were two years ago plus The Players Championship at $25 million. Greatest strength: A red-hot putter (No. Tadd finished T20 at the tournament. Age: 16 years, 9 months, 7 days An auto accident nearly ended his career in 1945, but Kocsis recovered and kept winning. BY Rex Hoggard September 13, 2021 at 1:00 PM. A match play major for men and women makes perfect sense for the good of the game, on so many levels. He recently finished T12 at the Mayakoba Golf Classic and is ranked No. Duke has an 11-15 record against the spread and a 22-4 record overall when allowing fewer than 77.1 points. Most other to lead in distance . Other prominent names in the top 5 list are Bob Panasik, Justin Thomas, and Matteo Manassero. The youth movement has some faces you know and others you soon will. He proceeded to participate in another 13 Canadian Opens in his career. Week-to-week, Wolff may have the highest actual ceiling of any player on this list. Joohyung Kim lifts his trophy after winning the Wyndham Championship golf tournament. And none of that fazes him. Having champions like Sepp Straka (2022) and Keith Mitchell (2019) claim their first PGA Tour win, or Matt Jones (2021) hoist a trophy for the first time in seven years are cool, heartwarming stories. But nobody who is as young as Niemann has the same level of experience that he does. Something always happened that I had no control over, he once said. Rory Mcilroy made history when he became the youngest player to reach the $10 million mark in 2012. However, as 2021 creeps up on us, we should look beyond the obvious young studs at some lesser-known names that could make noise next year and beyond. Morikawa impressed with his victory at TPC Harding Park, which ensures hell never have to wear that pesky Best Player to Never Win a Major tag. Tianlang also played in three other events in 2013, as a result of sponsors invites - the Zurich Classic (14 years, 6 months), Byron Nelson Championship (14 years, 6 months 20 days), and the Memorial (14 years, 7 months, 5 days). We'll start with the most obvious one -- somebody who earned temporary PGA Tour membership in the fall while we were all paying attention to the NBA playoffs and the heart of the NFL season. It's time to rank the 10 best men's golfers under the age of 25. Tiger Woods is no longer the youngest PGA player on record. Niemanns downswing has so much lag it gives the clubhead whiplash, producing low lasers off the tee that are the envy of any amateur suffering from the balloon ball. Greatest strength: Driver (9th in strokes gained off the tee), Room to improve: Putting (right on Tour average). That top-10 earned him a start in the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship, where he finished inside the top-10 once again. Guan was the only amateur to advance to the weekend in 2013 Masters and received the silver cup. Patrick Cantlay hits from the third tee during the American Express golf tournament on the La Quinta Country Club Course Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in La Quinta, Calif. Mark J. Terrill/AP. Mike is a professional golfer, a swing coach, and the Head Professional at the Harmony Landing Country Club in Goshen, Kentucky. These players turned pro to big expectations and theyve exceeded all of them. Zalatoris tied Dustin Johnson over 72 holes and led the field in Strokes Gained: Approach-the-Green. Since qualifying for the PGA Tour tournaments is no easy task, it's quite the achievement - particularly for a teenager. Only Jon Rahm had a better scoring average as a freshman at Arizona State than Yu back when he was a freshman in 2017. Status: Professional. Age: 16 years, 4 days Matthew Wolff led the U.S. Open going into the final round, bidding to be the youngest champion since Francis Ouimet. Notably, Guan was born after Woods had already gotten his first Masters. Age: 24 2020 FedExCup finish: 5th PGA TOUR wins: 0. Its been that way for years. Two came at the hands of Bryson DeChambeau. pic.twitter.com/dRYlO7oVLm, PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) October 30, 2019. Things seemed to click into place for him at the end of his first year as a pro, and I wouldn't be surprised if he made a Zalatoris-like leap in 2021. Lets set the parameters, first. 131, who is a multi-time winner on the Japan Tour. He sat atop the KFTs points list in September after a record-tying 11 consecutive top-20 finishes, a streak that started when the season resumed. Gene Sarazen hits the first ball to open the 1985 Masters Golf Championship at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., on April 11, 1985. Burns returned for the start of the new season but admits that may have been premature. He performed like a top-100 player in the world for most of his college career, and while turning pro can often break you down a bit, he's poised for a big 2021. When you throw in his top-tier iron play (still 8th on Tour this year), its worth remembering that this guys eligible for this list for the next three years, too. The biggest shocker, to me, was realizing that one of those PGA contenders, Cameron Champ, is also too old for this list. The 20-year-old . While his 54-MC-MC-2-MC showing after the PGA Tours restart suggested some serious volatility, Wolff has settled in the last month with a strong showing at the Memorial (T22) and a good title defense at the 3M (where he faded to T12) before his PGA Championship. Spieth was just shy of his 20th birthday when he won the 2013 John Deere Classic in a three-way playoff. Don Dunkelberger is the youngest player ever on the PGA Tour. But in the absence of a national program to support the game, there are many young players and aspirants who are still incapable of even making it to the race. That bodes well for his future. 0:00. One of 14 children, he began his golf career as a caddie and he quickly learned the game. Age: 24 2020 FedExCup finish: 111 PGA TOUR wins: 0. The Masters Tournament was first played in 1934, co-founded by Bobby Jones in Augusta, Georgia. We can make that happen. After what he described as the best ball-striking week of his life, Wolff must be feeling pretty good about his prospects. 2004-2023 CBS Interactive. In 1916, he would become the first amateur to win the U.S. Open and U.S. The Saudi-funded league offered signing fees reported to be upward of $100 million to players like Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka, who compete for $25 million in prize money at each of its 13 tournaments. PGA Championships: 2010 HP Byron Nelson Championship But fortunately, Australian Jason Day finished his final two holes with a par to move the cut line to 5 over. The Williamstown, Mass. The Norwegian cooled off a bit for the rest of the year, but hes started the new campaign with three top-15 finishes and he always makes money; his live cuts-made streak stands at 16. His winning streak started much earlier in 2010 when he was just 16 years old. The affable South Korean is golfs young ironman, living out of hotels and playing nearly every week. We'll just tell you about the golfers who've gone au naturel on camera. 4 min read. Morikawa won two holes later. He graduated from the Korn Ferry Tour in 2018, then finished third in his second TOUR event as a member, the Sanderson Farms Championship. Collin Morikawa is 23; he already owns three TOUR titles, including a major. As for that grey-haired generation headlined by Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth? Zalatoris finished T6 at Winged Foot and the world was introduced to his accurate iron play. 1 Jon Rahm . Data Golf has him ranked as the 30th-best player in the world, ranked No. His announcement was via Instagram caption on September 12, 2018. Snead became the youngest player in Tour history, and the first, to . 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