Max McGreevy wins Magnit Championship; Korn Ferry Tour Finals starting field finalized

Max McGreevy is racing back to the PGA TOUR, and he’s doing so in style.

McGreevy earned his second Korn Ferry Tour title of the season Sunday at the Magnit Championship, posting a final-round, 3-under 69 at Metedeconk National Golf Club in New Jersey for a three-shot win over a quartet of players – Tim Widing, Frankie Capan III, Will Chandler and Ricky Castillo. McGreevy carded four rounds in the 60s for an 18-under 270 total, including a bogey-free Sunday which he began in the co-lead with Chandler and steadily pulled away.

McGreevy, 29, adds the Magnit title to his victory at the Memorial Health Championship presented by LRS earlier this summer. The University of Oklahoma alum had safely clinched his 2025 PGA TOUR card before arriving in New Jersey, and he entered the week at No. 4 on the Korn Ferry Tour’s season-long standings, eyeing a push for the season-ending No. 1 spot that offers fully exempt TOUR status with spots in the U.S. Open and THE PLAYERS Championship. His season was already a success, bringing validation that he was working on the right things and belonged at the game’s highest level. Now it’s turning into something special.

With his Magnit Championship victory, McGreevy moves to No. 2 on the season-long standings behind Matt McCarty, also a two-time Korn Ferry Tour winner this summer, into the four-event Korn Ferry Tour Finals.

“It's even more motivating to be one back on that (Points List),” McGreevy said in his winner’s interview Sunday. “Going to push me forward next week and into the (Finals). (Finals) are just fun. It's elevated, there's just more for grabs. Excited for these next four events, four tournaments that are coming up.

“Going to give it everything I've got to take that No. 1 spot.”

The top 156 players on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List after the Magnit Championship have qualified for the Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron, the first leg of the Korn Ferry Tour Finals. The top 144 after the Albertsons Boise Open will qualify for the Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation, and the top 120 after the Simmons Bank Open will qualify for the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship. The top 75 after the Nationwide Children’s will qualify for the Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance, after which the top 30 will earn 2025 PGA TOUR cards.

McGreevy knows he is headed back to the PGA TOUR, on which he spent two seasons before losing his card via a No. 177 finish on the 2023 FedExCup Fall standings. He’s hungry to reunite with good friends, including his former housemate Scottie Scheffler, on TOUR next season, and he’s confident that this season on the Korn Ferry Tour will serve him well in the long run.

And he’ll have a pair of trophies (at minimum) to show for it.

“This has been almost eight years of doing this,” McGreevy said. “As much as losing your card or going and playing different tours and traveling to different states, I mean, the grind is what makes it amazing. Being rewarded like this at the end of the grind is what makes it all the sweeter.

“I think that's what makes it so sweet of going back to the PGA TOUR knowing that I can put those weeks together again … Today just kind of capped off just kind of my belief in what I've been working on, what I think I need to get better at and what I'm going to continue to try to improve on.”

Mason Williams and Blaine Hale, Jr. moved inside the top 156 at the Magnit, knocking Dawie van der Walt and Connor Howe outside the all-important cutoff for the first Korn Ferry Tour Finals leg.

Williams began the week at No. 160 on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List on the strength of a tie for ninth at the Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club in April, into which he Monday qualified. The Georgia Southern alum does not hold Korn Ferry Tour status this season, but the 156-player Magnit Championship field was based on the Points List into the week (rather than the Priority Ranking), and that T9 in Savannah proved enough. He took advantage at the Magnit with a tie for 13th, punctuated by a final-round 67, to play on to Boise.

Hale holds PGA TOUR status this season but did not qualify for the FedExCup Playoffs and elected to compete at the Magnit as a potential path back to the PGA TOUR for next season, if he does not finish in the top 150 after the FedExCup Fall. Hale finished T30 at the Magnit to move from No. 163 to No. 149 on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List and punch his ticket to Boise.

Final-round notes

• Preferred lies were in effect for the final round of the Magnit Championship.
• Max McGreevy is the fifth multiple-time winner on Tour this season.
• Fifty-four-hole co-leader Will Chandler (T2/-15), who holds no status on the Korn Ferry Tour, turns in a final-round even-par 72 for the best result of his Korn Ferry Tour career and second top-10 finish.
  • Chandler climbs from No. 134 up to No. 76 on the 2024 points list.
• Second-year member Frankie Capan III (T2/-15) notches his second runner-up finish of the season and fifth top 10; Capan had three top-10 finishes in 22 starts last season.
• Second-year member Ricky Castillo (T2/-15), who began the week No. 34 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, cards a bogey-free 5-under 67 for his fourth top-10 finish and best result of the 2024 campaign (previous; T5/Panama Championship, Astara Chile Classic presented by Scotiabank).
  • The former Florida Gator moves into the top 30 on the season-long points list up to No. 24.
• Mitchell Meissner (T6/-14), who made his first cut at the Manit Championship this week in his second career start, posts a bogey-free 4-under 68 – with birdies on his final two holes – to log his eighth top-25 and second top-10 in his 19th start of the season; Meissner recorded only four top-25 finishes in 25 starts last year.
• Zach Bauchou (T6/-14), who entered the week No. 37 on the 2024 points list, notches his fourth top 10 and eighth top 25 of the season to climb up to No. 32 on the points list.
  • Bauchou finished No. 82 on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour Points List to earn conditional status to start the 2024 season.
• 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List leader Matt McCarty (T9/-13), who made his 10th consecutive cut this week, logs his third consecutive top-10 finish and seventh top-10 of the season.
  • McCarty matches McGreevy for the most top 10s on Tour this season.
• Korn Ferry Tour rookie Austin Hitt (T9/-13) secures his third consecutive top-10 finish with a 3-under 69 in the final round.
  • Hitt finished the season No. 4 in the 2023 Totalplay Cup standings on PGA TOUR Latinoamérica (now PGA TOUR Americas) to earn Korn Ferry Tour membership for the first time.
• Korn Ferry Tour winner Roberto Díaz (T9/-13) records his best result of the 2024 season and first top 10 since the 2023 Panama Championship (T8).