Ryan Gerard | |
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Personal information | |
Born | Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. | August 2, 1999
Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) |
Weight | 175 lb (79 kg) |
Sporting nationality | ![]() |
Residence | Jupiter, Florida, U.S. |
Career | |
College | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Turned professional | 2022 |
Current tour(s) | PGA Tour |
Former tour(s) | Korn Ferry Tour PGA Tour Canada |
Professional wins | 3 |
Highest ranking | 48 (July 20, 2025) [1] (as of July 20, 2025) |
Number of wins by tour | |
PGA Tour | 1 |
Korn Ferry Tour | 1 |
Other | 1 |
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]
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]
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]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
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1 | Jul 20, 2025 | Barracuda Championship | 47 pts (13-7-15-12=47) | 3 points | ![]() |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
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1 | Jun 9, 2024 | BMW Charity Pro-Am | −26 (64-66-63-66=259) | 6 strokes | ![]() |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
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1 | Aug 7, 2022 | Quebec Open | −16 (65-68-66-73=272) | 1 stroke | ![]() |
Tournament | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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Masters Tournament | ||||
PGA Championship | T8 | |||
U.S. Open | CUT | T56 | T50 | |
The Open Championship |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied