Meet 10 players who earned Korn Ferry Tour cards via PGA TOUR Americas, Fortinet Cup
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Korn Ferry Tour cards were awarded to the top 10 players on the season-long Fortinet Cup points list. (Tracy Wilcox/PGA TOUR)
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SURREY, British Columbia – The 2025 PGA TOUR Americas season concluded Sunday at the Fortinet Cup Championship, and Korn Ferry Tour cards were awarded to the top 10 players on the season-long Fortinet Cup points list.
Jay Card III closed with a final-round 62 at Morgan Creek Golf Course in Surrey, British Columbia, to win the season finale and secure the No. 2 spot in the Fortinet Cup standings behind Michael Brennan, a three-time winner this season and the Fortinet Cup champion.
The top 10 finishers in the Fortinet Cup earn Korn Ferry Tour membership for the 2026 season, and they are exempt into Final Stage of PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry (Dec. 11-14). These 10 players also receive a share of the $100,000 Fortinet Cup bonus pool, with $25,000 going to Brennan as this season’s leading points winner on PGA TOUR Americas.
Additionally, as the Fortinet Cup champion, Brennan earned an exemption into the 2026 RBC Canadian Open, to be contested June 11-14 at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (North). As the top Canadian player in the Fortinet Cup, Drew Nesbitt also earned an exemption into the RBC Canadian Open.
1. Michael Brennan
Brennan closed with a T4 at the Fortinet Cup Championship, his fourth straight top-five finish and 12th top 10 of the season. The 23-year-old from Leesburg, Virginia, has held the No. 1 position since his breakthrough victory at the BioSteel Championship in August. Two starts later, he won the CRMC Championship presented by Northern Pacific Center in a playoff, and he won the very next week at the ATB Classic to clinch his Korn Ferry Tour card via Three-Victory Promotion. Brennan earned PGA TOUR Americas membership last season after finishing No. 12 in the PGA TOUR University Class of 2024, which he followed with a No. 18 finish in the 2024 Fortinet Cup as a rookie.

2. Jay Card III
Card closed the season in style, birdieing the 72nd hole Sunday to punctuate a final-round 62 and a victory at the season-ending Fortinet Cup Championship. A classically trained musician who played one semester of collegiate golf at High Point University, Card’s 2025 campaign also included a win at the KIA Open in April and four top 10s, and he returns to the Korn Ferry Tour for the second time after holding membership in 2022 and 2023.
3. Davis Lamb
Lamb recorded five top-five finishes this season, including an unofficial victory at the weather-shortened Inter Rapidisimo Golf Championship in May. The 28-year-old from Bethesda, Maryland, finished among the top three in the Fortinet Cup for the second time, having previously finished No. 3 for the 2023 PGA TOUR Canada season to earn Korn Ferry Tour membership.
4. David Perkins
Perkins earned membership on a PGA TOUR-affiliated tour for the first time last season via PGA TOUR Americas Q-School, and he went on to finish No. 28 in the 2024 Fortinet Cup to retain membership for the 2025 season. This year, the 27-year-old from Peoria, Illinois, had four top 10s, including his first TOUR-sanctioned victory at the Explore NB Open, and closed the season with 11 straight made cuts.
5. Brett White
White became the third player in PGA TOUR Americas history to record a sub-60 round, carding a final-round 59 en route to his first career win at the 2025 Commissionaires Ottawa Open presented by Lépine Apartments.

Brett White drains 63-foot eagle putt for 59 on PGA TOUR Americas
The 32-year-old from Grand Rapids, Michigan, earned membership this season as one of the medalists from First Stage of 2024 PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry, and he returns to the Korn Ferry Tour, where he previously played the 2022 season, eight years after a life-threatening battle with viral encephalitis.
6. Derek Hitchner
After missing four straight cuts to start the North America Swing, Hitchner notched runner-up finishes at the CRMC Championship presented by Northern Pacific Center and the ATB Classic to propel himself into the top 10. The second-year pro closed with a T6 at the Fortinet Cup Championship, his fifth top-15 finish in his last six starts, and he earns Korn Ferry Tour status for the first time following his collegiate career at Pepperdine.
7. John Marshall Butler
After captaining the Auburn Tigers to the 2024 National Championship, Butler began his professional career after earning status through PGA TOUR Americas Q-School. Butler broke through in his 13th start on PGA TOUR Americas at the Bupa Championship, where he claimed his first win as a professional, and heads to the Korn Ferry Tour for the first time.
8. Drew Nesbitt
Nesbitt, an Ontario native, becomes the second Canadian to finish in "The 10" and graduate to the Korn Ferry Tour, joining Matthew Anderson, who finished No. 3 on PGA TOUR Americas last season. Nesbitt posted three top-five finishes, including a win at the season’s penultimate event, the Times Colonist Victoria Open presented by Andrew Sheret Limited, and he will join the Korn Ferry Tour for the first time in 2026. As the leading Canadian in the Fortinet Cup, Nesbitt earned an exemption and will make his fourth appearance at the RBC Canadian Open next year.
9. Theo Humphrey
Humphrey overcame weather delays and round cancellations to emerge victorious in Winnipeg at the Manitoba Open to move inside the top 10 of the Fortinet Cup points list. Humphrey was a decorated collegiate player at Vanderbilt, where he was named the 2018 SEC Player of the Year and returns to the Korn Ferry Tour for the first time since 2022.
10. Carson Bacha
The second Auburn alum in the top 10 won in his fourth pro start at the Osprey Valley Open presented by Votorantim Cimentos – CBM Aggregates, where he emerged in a playoff to become the first member of the PGA TOUR University Class of 2025 to win as a pro. Bacha finished as No. 15 in the 2025 PGA TOUR University Ranking and registered three top 10s in 10 starts to earn his Korn Ferry Tour card.