David Lipsky makes big leap toward PGA TOUR card for 2025
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NAPA, Calif. – David Lipsky did not win the Procore Championship, the first stop in the eight-tournament FedExCup Fall, but he did make a big move up the FedExCup standings by finishing runner-up to Patton Kizzire (70) for his best-ever career finish.
“It is where I've always dreamed of playing,” Lipsky said. “I was pretty depressed through the middle of the season with my game, and I couldn't be happier right now, it means the world to me.”
After starting the final round four behind Kizzire, Lipsky cut the margin to two with two birdies in the first four holes, then got within two again on the back nine, but it was not to be.
Lipsky shot 1-under 71 to finish 15-under par, five back. He moved from 163rd to 101st in the FedExCup. The top 125 in the FedExCup Fall standings after The RSM Classic on Nov. 21-24 will retain full status for the 2025 season.
“It's a good feeling,” he said. “It's like, you know, obviously I wanted to win this week, but coming in second doing that, I'll take it. That's a small victory and that was sort of what my goal was going into the fall was just play consistent, play solid and sort of lock up my card for the next year. Didn't the first event, so now I can play a little more freely.”
David Lipsky sinks 30-footer for birdie at Procore
After making just seven cuts this season and missing the FedExCup Playoffs, Lipsky hit the reset button by getting out of sweltering Las Vegas and going back to Evanston, Illinois, to practice for two weeks with his alma mater, Northwestern, and his old coach, Pat Goss.
“Sometimes you have to realize golf can be fun,” Lipsky said, “and I think I sort of forgot that along the way. … I was almost energized by their youthfulness.”
Added Goss, Northwestern director of Golf and Player Development, “It was him and Jon Bowers, another former player who’s now in insurance, and it was almost like they were on the team again. They went to team dinners, hung out with the guys at the Gleacher Golf Center.
“I think it really gave them the feeling of being on the team again,” he added.
Lipsky, 36, has won at every level but will have to wait another day to nab his first TOUR win.
Still, he now heads into the rest of the FedExCup Fall with many more chances to hoist a trophy.
Cameron Morfit is a Staff Writer for the PGA TOUR. He has covered rodeo, arm-wrestling, and snowmobile hill climb in addition to a lot of golf. Follow Cameron Morfit on Twitter.