The tournament within the tournament at the season-ending Korn Ferry Tour Championship was the race to a PGA Tour card for the 2025 season.
There are 30 being doled out in all this season and before they teed it up at the season finale, 17 cards were already claimed. Another five, while not officially locked up, were a virtual certainty. That left eight cards truly up for grabs.
On Sunday, Braden Thornberry grabbed himself one of those cards.
Thornberry started the week in 51st, well outside the top 30, but he secured his playing privileges for 2025 with an outright win at The French Lick Golf Resort’s Pete Dye Course. His final-round 66 got him to 9 under and vaulted him to 16th in the points.
He was the only player in the 74-man field to climb inside the top 30. And that meant someone else had to fall out. Bubble Boy Sam Bennett was that golfer. He started the week 30th in points but a final-round 78, a day that included two double-bogeys, dropped him to 31st, the first man out.
