Ryan Gerard

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Ryan Gerard
Personal information
Born (1999-08-02) August 2, 1999 (age 26)
Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.
Height6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Weight175 lb (79 kg)
Sporting nationalityFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Residence Jupiter, Florida, U.S.
Career
College University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Turned professional2022
Current tour(s) PGA Tour
European Tour
Former tour(s) Korn Ferry Tour
PGA Tour Canada
Professional wins3
Highest ranking 48 (July 20, 2025) [1]
(as of September 7, 2025)
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour1
Korn Ferry Tour1
Other1
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament DNP
PGA Championship T8: 2025
U.S. Open T50: 2025
The Open Championship DNP

Ryan Gerard (born August 2, 1999) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. [2] He won the 2024 BMW Charity Pro-Am on the Korn Ferry Tour en route to earning his full card for the 2025 PGA Tour season. He had previously spent the majority of the 2023 PGA Tour Season on the PGA Tour as a Special Temporary Member. [3] [4]

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Amateur career

As a high school student, Gerard attended Ravenscroft School, where he was a four-time NCISAA All-State honoree, and was named TISAC Player of the Year three times and TISAC All-Conference five times, while earning American Junior Golf Association All-American honors his senior season. [5]

Gerard attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2017 to 2022, earning All-America Honors in 2020 and 2022, finishing fourth in school history with a 71.65 career stroke average, and shooting more career rounds (5) of 65 or better, than any other Tar Heel. [6]

Professional career

Gerard turned professional in 2022, competing on PGA Tour Canada, where he won the Quebec Open in his fourth start, and finished fifth in the season-long Fortinet Cup standings to earn Korn Ferry status for 2023.

However, after only four Korn Ferry Tour starts in 2023, he Monday qualified into the PGA Tour's Honda Classic and finished fourth, then placed 11th at the next week's Puerto Rico Open en route to securing PGA Tour Special Temporary Membership at the Valero Texas Open. Unfortunately, Gerard could not quite retain that form, notching just one further top-25 in 2023 (he made 22 PGA Tour starts overall), and failed to match the top-125 on the FedEx Cup (after the FedEx Cup Fall) required to earn 2024 Tour membership. [3]

Despite missing out on earning full PGA Tour status for 2024, Gerard successfully earned a PGA Tour card for 2025 by finishing 12th on the Korn Ferry tour in the 2024 season, registering 12 top-25 finishes, four top-10s and a win at the BMW Charity Pro-Am, where he shot a 26-under 259, finishing six strokes ahead of runner-up Seth Reeves. [4]

In his first full season on the PGA Tour, Gerard made nine of his first ten cuts of 2025. During that stretch, he finished in the top-25 five times, with two top-10s, including a runner-up finish at the Valero Texas Open, where he finished three strokes behind tournament-winner Brian Harman. [7] Later on in the season, he earned his first PGA Tour win at the Barracuda Championship, posting a four-round score of 47 in the tournament's Modified Stableford format. [8]

Amateur wins

Sources: [9] [6]

Professional wins (3)

PGA Tour wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
1Jul 20, 2025 Barracuda Championship 47 pts (13-7-15-12=47)3 points Flag of South Africa.svg Erik van Rooyen

Korn Ferry Tour wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
1Jun 9, 2024 BMW Charity Pro-Am −26 (64-66-63-66=259)6 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Seth Reeves

PGA Tour Canada wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
1Aug 7, 2022 Quebec Open −16 (65-68-66-73=272)1 stroke Flag of the United States.svg Thomas Walsh

Results in major championships

Tournament2022202320242025
Masters Tournament
PGA Championship T8
U.S. Open CUTT56T50
The Open Championship
  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Week 29 2025 Ending 20 Jul 2025" (pdf). OWGR . Retrieved July 20, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Ryan Gerard – Bio". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 11, 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Ryan Gerard locks up 2025 PGA Tour card at Korn Ferry Tour Finals opener". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 11, 2025.
  4. 1 2 Staff. "Ryan Gerard captures emotional victory at BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by TD SYNNEX". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 11, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Senior Golfer Named AJGA All-American" (PDF). April 11, 2025.
  6. 1 2 "Ryan Gerard - Men's Golf". University of North Carolina Athletics. Retrieved April 11, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Valero Texas Open 2025 - PGA Tour Golf Leaderboard". ESPN. Retrieved April 11, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Ryan Gerard breaks through at Barracuda Championship for first PGA Tour title". PGA Tour. Associated Press. July 20, 2025. Retrieved July 21, 2025.
  9. ↑ "Ryan Gerard". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved May 19, 2025.
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