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]
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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