Karl Vilips started his summer season with restricted standing on the Korn Ferry Tour.
He’ll doubtless finish it with a PGA Tour card.
In simply his fourth KFT begin as a professional, Vilips, a 22-year-old Stanford product by the use of Australia, gained the Utah Championship by two photographs Sunday at Oakridge Nation Membership in Farmington, Utah.
The win bumps Vilips to No. 15 in factors with simply six occasions left within the season. The highest 30 gamers in factors on the finish of the Korn Ferry Tour Championship in October graduate to the PGA Tour.
Vilips, a former junior prodigy, was the 36-hole chief on the NCAA Championship in Might earlier than slipping to a T-8 end. In consequence, he solely climbed to No. 10 within the remaining PGA Tour College rating, which got here with full Americas Tour standing however solely conditional membership on the KFT. He turned professional and proceeded to overlook the reduce in his Canadian debut. He adopted with a T-33 end earlier than getting into a qualifying event for the KFT’s Ascendant occasion in Colorado. He gained that, incomes a sponsor exemption into the precise occasion, the place he tied for thirteenth to clinch his spot within the subsequent week’s event, the Value Cutter Charity Championship. Vilips posted a T-15 there, then a runner-up end on the NV5 Invitational every week later, skyrocketing to No. 44 in factors getting into this week’s Utah occasion.
Vilips took management at Oakridge with a second-round, 9-under 62. He shot 64-66 on the weekend to carry off runners-up Joe Weiler and Matt McCarty.
Ought to Vilips certainly clinch his Tour card, he would change into the second PGA Tour College product to take action in his first summer season on the KFT, becoming a member of 2023 PGA Tour U product Adrien Dumont de Chassart.
