Former Brentwood Academy golfer Blades Brown became the youngest player to earn a PGA Tour card as a Korn Ferry Tour graduate on Oct. 11.
Brown, who is 19 years, 4 months and 20 days old, clinched it in the final round of the Korn Ferry Tour Championship at The Federal Club in Glen Alley, Virginia.
He finished second in the KFT finals, which left him ninth in the points standings and one of 20 players to earn their PGA Tour card on Oct. 11. The others were Ross Steelman, Sandy Scott, Ian Holt, Alistair Docherty, Alvaro Ortiz, Austin Hitt, Cole Sherwood, Doc Redman, Tommy Morrison, Cooper Dossey, Hunter Eichhorn, Dylan Menante, Michael Johnson, Jeremy Gandon, Taylor Dickson, Ian Gilligan, Davis Shore, Carson Young and Davis Lamb.
Brown turned down
several college scholarship offers to turn pro in 2024. He made 11 starts on the PGA Tour and 17 on the KFT in the 2026 season. He made 24 of 28 cuts on the two tours.
He was third at the Puerto Rico Open on the PGA Tour and had three top-five KFT finishes.
Brown became the youngest U.S. Amateur stroke-play medalist in 2023 when he was 16. He won three straight TSSAA Division II AA individual state championship (2021-23).
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