Im notched his first PGA Tour win at the Honda Classic just before the coronavirus shutdown and he bookended that with a T-2 while playing in his first Masters. Age: 20 years, 1 month, 17 days He created history by making the cut at the 2013 Masters at the age of 14. Am I a prisoner of the moment in suggesting that Scottie Scheffler could be as high as No. 1-ranked amateur in the world,according to Data Golf. Meanwhile, the youngest player in the field will be 11-year-old Karl Stenson, the son of 45-year-old Henrik Stenson. Dont sleep on Scottie! Greatest strength: Driver (9th in strokes gained off the tee), Room to improve: Putting (right on Tour average). But hey, rules are rules, and this isnt a Top-11 list. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images). PGA Championships: 2009 Wyndham Championship His winning streak started much earlier in 2010 when he was just 16 years old. 19 years, 10 months, 14 days: John McDermott, 1911 U.S. Open Championship. Still just 22 years old, Redman has been knocking on the door of a TOUR win. That's under 25, not 25-and-under, which eliminates a few key names. USE OF AND/OR REGISTRATION ON ANY PORTION OF THIS SITE CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE OF OURVISITOR AGREEMENT(UPDATED 1/6/23),PRIVACY AND COOKIES NOTICE(UPDATED 1/4/23) ANDCALIFORNIA PRIVACY NOTICE. Those 20-somethings would be difficult to miss after they burned through the PGA Tour world in 2019 and 2020, setting themselves up for what should be a really intriguing 2021 in which they will no longer be the plucky upstarts but rather the heavyweight favorites at the biggest events in the world. Lets stay across the pond for a moment with a nod to the reigning European Tour Rookie of the Year. Finish: T13 Furthermore, he also became the youngest player to make the cut on the PGA Tour in a non-major event. Its been that way for years. 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. Maverick McNealy has already accomplished enough to crack the top 10. Age: 23 2020 FedExCup finish: 20th PGA TOUR wins: 2. January 3, 2021 at 8:30 PM. Since qualifying for the PGA Tour tournaments is no easy task, its quite the achievement particularly for a teenager. The Korn Ferry trademark is also a registered trademark, and is used in the Korn Ferry Tour logo with permission. Age: 20 years, 1 month, 15 days Promise. Status: Professional. (AP Photo). Status: Professional. . And there have been plenty of instances where the younger players have performed well on the PGA Tour. Born: June 2, 1984 Raleigh, North Carolina Age: 20 years, 2 months, 23 days Whats especially exciting is that Wolffs valleys are showing signs of rising. The Communist Party of China banned golf within their country, considering it too bourgeois. On weeks when Wolff, Hovland or Morikawa get hot with wedges and a putter, look out. Born: July 27, 1993, Dallas, Texas. Most other to lead in distance . CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Commissioner.com is a registered trademark of CBS Interactive Inc. site: media | arena: golf | pageType: stories | At just 29-years old, he can lay claim to 2 Major victories, a FedEx Cup Championship, PLAYERS Championship and a PGA TOUR Player of the Year Award. Click that icon and type in your search term. LIV players are not . Still looks impossibly young (he was not alive for Tiger Woods' first Masters win), but his game will fit nicely on the Korn Ferry Tour (or PGA Tour?) DIVE DEEPER. We often lump all the young guys together, but there is a chasm between being 18 and on the PGA Tour and being 23 or 24 out there. In his last seven starts, hes posted six top-6 finishes, including a victory. 19 years, 2 months, 3 days: Ralph Guldahl, 1931 Santa Monica Open. Matthew Wolff led the U.S. Open . Wolff, as entertaining to anybody, should be known to just about any fan now after he contended in his first major, the PGA Championship (T-4), and led the U.S. Open going into the final round before finishing second. 11, which belongs to Doc Redman, who could make me look like a dang fool because he just keeps posting solid finishes on Tour, including three top-25s since the restart. He also is the first golfer since at least 1983 to begin a tournament with a quadruple bogey to go on to win. He became just the third player, joining Im and Stewart Cink, to win Korn Ferry Tour Player of the Year and PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year in consecutive seasons. His announcement was via Instagram caption on September 12, 2018. Joohyung Tom Kim entered some exclusive company among the history of professional golf on the PGA Tour. Other prominent names in the top 5 list are Bob Panasik, Justin Thomas, and Matteo Manassero. But enough about the guys who arent on this list. Justin Thomas is one of the most exciting and popular golfers on the PGA TOUR. One wrong step derailed his pro career, though. Many of the youngest winners happened in the early years of the Tour, but in the past decades, three golfers, including Kim, have joined the exclusive youngest winners club, as well. Help us know in the comments below. To search Golf Compendium, look for the little magnifying glass icon in the upper right. (Photo: Nell Redmond/USA TODAY Sports). With his victory at the season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai, Steve Stricker continued his impressive run of form on PGA TOUR Champions. An auto accident nearly ended his career in 1945, but Kocsis recovered and kept winning. But don't get too excited by our headline: We aren't going to post any of the photos here. Over this period of time, he became a four-time European Tour winner under the age of 20. The PGA Tour Fan Shop at The Players will once again open before tournament week, opening on Friday at noon, until 5 p.m. . Many of the youngest winners happened in the early years of the Tour, but in the past decades, three golfers, including Kim, have joined the exclusive youngest winner's club, as well. Status: Amateur. Stricker's win at Hualalai, which came in his 48th start on PGA TOUR Champions, improved his winning percentage to 25.0%, the highest of any player in Champions Tour history with 10 or more wins. Lets set the parameters, first. Born: January 8, 1991 2023 Masters Tournament Dates, Schedule, Players in the Field, 24 Famous Golfers Who Were Photographed in the Nude, Golfer Pete Brown: First Black PGA Tour Winner, How to Play a Red, White and Blue Golf Tournament, 9th Hole at Augusta National: Carolina Cherry. Iron play has often been the differentiator for the games best players and Morikawa is proving to be no exception. He is 53rd in this seasons FedExCup, however, thanks to two top-10s in five starts. Notably, Guan was born after Woods had already gotten his first Masters. The teenage pro-golfer only made a cut in one out of the seven events at the PGA Tour that year, after which time he produced a medical exemption. Required fields are marked *. Iron play is the strength of his game. Don Dunkelberger is the youngest player ever on the PGA Tour. Other prominent names in the top 5 list are Bob Panasik, Justin Thomas, and Matteo Manassero. He did it at the 2013 Zurich Classic of New Orleans a month after the 2013 Masters. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Copyright 2021 Oldest.org | Terms | Privacy | Contact | Facebook, The Super Bowl is the highest stage achievable for any player in the NFL. Born: October 20, 1941, Windsor, Ontario The 2019-'20 season was one big graduation party for some of the youngest talent on the PGA Tour. I still dwell on the big ones that got away. Those big ones would be the the 1927 and 1936 U.S. Those of us who knew, knew that he was the one, he said. PGA TOUR, PGA TOUR Champions, and the Swinging Golfer design are registered trademarks. PGA Championships: 1957 Canadian Open 1978) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. We could just tell.. 4 min read. Like Morikawa, hes known for elite ball-striking. The PGA Tour will conclude its tumultuous 2021-22 season on Sunday when it crowns a FedEx Cup champion and pays out a record $75 million in bonuses, $18 million of which goes to the winner. by 1-ranked amateur in the world in November shortly after contending (and briefly leading) in Round 1 of the U.S. Open at Winged Foot. The last time we saw the boys in action, Adam Svensson earned his first win on Tour at the RSM Classic in November. Hes been gaining valuable experience atop the leaderboard, as well. Zalatoris finished T6 at Winged Foot and the world was introduced to his accurate iron play. By the end of that year, he had topped the World Amateur Golf Rankings. Age: 22 2020 FedExCup finish: 11th PGA TOUR wins: 1. Collin Morikawa captured the PGA Championship at the age of 22. Im, 22, has already played in the TOUR Championship twice. Room to improve: His iron play has gone cold in recent weeks. He finished runner-up four times on the KFT after golf restarted in June. Now a senior, Yu is the No. To avoid going back into the pre-1900 era, when record-keeping was, at best, spotty and incomplete, we have followed the PGA Tour's convention by sticking only to post-1900 tournaments in the list above.). Below you'll find information about that record-setting win, plus about the golfer who is the youngest since 1970 to win on the PGA Tour. He broke his right ankle while playing pickup basketball with kids in his neighborhood. He absolutely destroys on the Japan circuits -- he recently won the Dunlop Phoenix for his second worldwide win -- and though he's a bit older than you might think (he'll turn 23 in May), he has yet to play a truly robust schedule worldwide. That includes a T3 in the season-opening Safeway Open and T4 in the Bermuda Championship. You play your way onto the PGA TOUR the hard way, cobbling together a schedule with a series of top-10 finishes and sponsor exemptions. A final pre-amble: This no space for participation trophies, but its worth acknowledging the first couple golfers outside this vaunted list. Week-to-week, Wolff may have the highest actual ceiling of any player on this list. Amey Kulkarni is a Golf writer at EssentiallySports. These players turned pro to big expectations and theyve exceeded all of them. Here's a look at the only players in PGA Tour winners -- from youngest to oldest -- to be victorious before reaching the age of 20. Stay with us to learn about eight of the youngest PGA players in the history of golf. When most people think of golf, they imagine a sport that retired bankers play to relax and have a good time. The Open Championship was MacIntyres announcement to the world that hes here to compete. 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. Rasmus Hjgaard isnt yet 20 but owns a European Tour victory. Greatest strength: Hes good at everything! Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. The PGA Tour has been around for more than a century. In the qualifier, Leseur shot a determined 73 in blustery conditions to finish in a tie for 1st place alongside Michael Sims and Jarryd Dillas, with all three earning a spot in the field. We'll just tell you about the golfers who've gone au naturel on camera. The former No. 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. He has to win to appear in the FedExCup standings, but that doesnt seem out of the realm of possibilities. First, this Italian pro golfer became the youngest player to win the European Tour. The PGA Tour board on Tuesday night ratified a radical new approach for the 2024 schedule that will see reduced fields in the new designated events and the removal of the 36-hole cut. Age: 16 years, 9 months, 7 days And Matthew Wolff, whos still just 21, was a contender in two of this years majors. Theres also no shame in being behind these next four players. Talents you know something good. But youve got to tell him its not right. 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