Trace Crowe wins UNC Health Championship presented by STITCH

Trace Crowe won the UNC Health Championship presented by STITCH, his second Korn Ferry Tour title, closing in 5-under 65 to total 21-under 259 and break the UNC Health Championship 72-hole scoring record.

Charting the champion (stats updated through tournament)

Trace Crowe (first/21-under)

• Earns his second Korn Ferry Tour title (2023 NV5 Invitational) at 28 years, 7 months, 23 days of age
• Raleigh, North Carolina, resident closes in 5-under 65 to total 21-under 259, breaking the UNC Health Championship presented by STITCH 72-hole scoring record (previous: 263/Sebastian Cappelen, 2019; Mito Pereira, 2020; Stephan Jaeger, 2020)
• Improves to two-for-two converting 54-hole lead/co-lead into victory on the Korn Ferry Tour (2023 NV5 Invitational)
• Completes five-stroke victory, tying the largest margin of victory on Tour this season (Sudarshan Yellamaraju/The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club; Justin Suh/118th Visa Argentina Open presented by Macro)
• Became the 10th winner of the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour season under 30 years of age
• Marks fifth consecutive top-25 on Tour, and third top-10 in eight starts on the Korn Ferry Tour this season
• As a PGA TOUR rookie, finished No. 148 on the 2024 FedExCup Fall standings, leaving him with conditional PGA TOUR status for the 2025 season
• Finished No. 38 on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour Points List (top 30 earned PGA TOUR membership), but finished solo second at Final Stage of 2023 PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry to earn PGA TOUR membership for the 2024 season
• Previously finished No. 138 on the 2022 Korn Ferry Tour Points List as a rookie
• Turned professional in 2020 and finished T91 at Final Stage of the 2021 Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament (now known as PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry)
• Played four seasons at Auburn (2015-19), winning three times individually and earning All-Southeastern Conference Second Team laurels in 2017 and 2019

Additional notes

• This year marks the first season with three wins of five-plus strokes since 2022, when four players recorded victories of five-plus strokes.
• Korn Ferry Tour winner Hank Lebioda (T2/16-under), who entered the week at No. 3 on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, closes in 9-under 61, the second-lowest score in the six playings of the UNC Health Championship presented by STITCH at Raleigh Country Club (60/Jimmy Green/1998, Round 1); he records his Tour-leading sixth top-10 of the 2025 season, as well as his fourth top-three finish of the season.
• Davis Chatfield (T2/16-under), who projects to move to No. 4 on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, records his second runner-up finish of the 2025 season (2nd/Astara Chile Classic presented by Scotiabank), as well as his fifth top-10 of the season; he entered the 2025 season with three top-10s in 49 career starts on Tour.
• Four-time PGA TOUR winner Martin Laird (T2/16-under) makes three consecutive bogeys (Nos. 15-17) to fall into three-way T2, his highest finish on either the PGA TOUR or Korn Ferry Tour since the 2023 3M Open/T2.
• Michael Johnson (fifth/15-under), who finished No. 69 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, records his first top-10 on Tour since June 2024 (T8/Memorial Health Championship presented by LRS) and his highest finish on Tour since the 2018 UNC Health Championship presented by STITCH/T4.
• Mark Lawrence Jr. (T16/10-under) records his second consecutive top-25 finish and earns a spot in next week’s BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by TD SYNNEX; he gained entry to the Visit Knoxville Open via open qualifying, and finished T17 to gain entry to this week’s UNC Health Championship presented by STITCH.