Michael Thorbjornsen of Stanford completed No. 1 within the PGA Tour College standings and secured his PGA Tour card as quickly as he turns skilled.
Thorbjornsen, a 22-year-old from Massachusetts, was one of many high gamers in school golf this season and has capitalized on the comparatively new pathway for amateurs to qualify for the tour immediately via school. Thorbjornsen accrued a excessive sufficient factors common over the previous two years to complete the 2023-24 NCAA season atop the rankings.
Factors are awarded for enjoying school tournaments in addition to moving into skilled occasions. Thorbjornsen has made the reduce in 4 skilled tournaments already, most just lately the 2023 John Deere Traditional. He positioned fourth on the 2022 Vacationers Championship, the place he was enjoying on an exemption.
Thorbjornsen, whose four-year Stanford profession concluded when he missed the 54-hole reduce on the NCAA championship, can be eligible for the rest of the 2024 PGA Tour season and your entire 2025 season each time he turns professional.
“PGA Tour U is, I believe, probably the greatest packages in all of sports activities,” Thorbjornsen stated in a information launch from the tour. “What they’ve achieved, making a pathway to the PGA Tour and to those totally different excursions beneath it, it is enormous. It offers college students and us golfers causes to remain for 4 years, and you may’t actually cross up on the alternatives that they current to you.”
The PGA Tour College pathway has been tweaked and modified, and final 12 months was the primary time a participant who completed No. 1 in a given season acquired speedy entry to the PGA Tour.
That participant was Ludvig Åberg, a Swede who parlayed his profession at Texas Tech right into a white-hot begin to his professional profession. He gained one event apiece on the DP World Tour and the PGA Tour, performed for the victorious Group Europe on the Ryder Cup, completed second to Scottie Scheffler ultimately month’s Masters and is at the moment ranked No. 6 on the earth.
“Ludvig, although he is been on tour for say a 12 months now, he is high 10 on the earth, he is achieved unbelievable issues just lately,” Thorbjornsen stated. “We’re good associates, we competed quite a bit final 12 months, so he is somebody I look as much as however I am additionally making an attempt to beat him as effectively.”
