With a birdie on the first hole (par-5 18th) of a sudden-death playoff, France's Jeremy Gandon earned his first Korn Ferry Tour win.

Charting the champion

Jeremy Gandon

(first/17-under)

• Defeats Rick Lamb in a playoff
• Converts first career 54-hole lead or co-lead in a Korn Ferry Tour event (shared 54-hole lead with two-time PGA TOUR winner Russell Knox) into first career win on Tour
• Earns first Korn Ferry Tour title at 28 years, 4 months, 2 days of age, becoming the fourth winner under the age of 30 this season
• Becomes the first rookie winner and fifth first-time winner of the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour season
• Follows three-time Korn Ferry Tour winner Paul Barjon as the second player representing France to win on the Korn Ferry Tour
• Follows Sudarshan Yellamaraju (Canada) as the second international winner of the 2025 season
• Gained entry to this week’s field via a top-25 finish in the previous Korn Ferry Tour event (T9/Astara Chile Classic presented by Scotiabank); he would not have gained entry to this week’s field without the aforementioned top-25 finish, as he would have been the first alternate
• Entered the week with two top 10s in 14 previous Korn Ferry Tour starts (T9/2025 Astara Chile Classic presented by Scotiabank; T6/2023 Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank and Intermountain Health)
• Finished No. 35 in the 2024 Fortinet Cup standings on PGA TOUR Americas, but earned Korn Ferry Tour membership with a T50 finish at Final Stage of 2024 PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry
• Advanced through both First Stage and Second Stage of 2024 PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry on the cut line (T21 at First Stage site in Madison, Mississippi; T14 at Second Stage site in Palm Coast, Florida)
• Previously finished No. 137 on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour Points List in his first season as a member; he made just seven starts with conditional status, spending much of the season buried on the priority ranking after a T114 finish at Final Stage of 2022 Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament (now PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry)
• Played four seasons at Kansas State University (2015-19), winning four times individually, with the crown jewel being co-medalist honors at the 2018 Big 12 Conference Championship at Southern Hills Country Club

Additional notes

• Korn Ferry Tour winner Rick Lamb (second/17-under), who won the 2016 LECOM Health Challenge in a four-way sudden-death playoff as an open qualifier, records his first career runner-up finish and his first top-three finish on Tour since the 2019 LECOM Suncoast Classic (finished T3).
• 23-year-old Cole Sherwood (T3/16-under), who finished No. 7 in the 2024 PGA TOUR University Ranking after four seasons at Vanderbilt University (2020-24), cards the low round of the final round and ties his career-low round on Tour with an 8-under 64 (previous: Rounds 2 and 3/118th VISA Argentina Open presented by Macro last month) and records his second top-three finish in the last three events (T2/118th VISA Argentina Open presented by Macro).
• PGA TOUR winner Garrick Higgo (T3/16-under) records his first top-five finish in an individual stroke-play event on either the PGA TOUR or Korn Ferry Tour since the 2022 Sanderson Farms Championship (finished third) on TOUR.
• Two-time PGA TOUR winner Russell Knox (T3/16-under) earns his second top-three finish of the 2025 season (T2/The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club), as well as his third top 10 of the season (T9/The Bahamas Golf Classic at Atlantis Paradise Island); he entered the season without a top 10 on the PGA TOUR or Korn Ferry Tour since the 2022 PLAYERS Championship (finished T6).
• Rookie Johnny Keefer (T6/14-under), who finished No. 1 in the 2024 Fortinet Cup standings on PGA TOUR Americas after a No. 25 finish in the 2024 PGA TOUR University Ranking, records his third top 10 of the season (T2/The Panama Championship; T4/Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard).
• Two-time Korn Ferry Tour winner Josh Teater (T6/14-under) posts a birdie-eagle finish for his third top 10 of the season (first/The Panama Championship; T7/The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club); he previously recorded four top 10s in 2023 en route to earning PGA TOUR membership via the Korn Ferry Tour Class of 2023.
• Nick Gabrelcik (T6/14-under), who finished No. 5 in the 2024 PGA TOUR University Ranking after four seasons at University of North Florida (2020-24), records his second consecutive top 10 (T2/The Panama Championship).
• Cody Blick (T6/14-under) records his first top 10 on Tour since May 2024 (T3/2024 Visit Knoxville Open).
• Rookie Harry Hillier (T6/14-under), who finished No. 7 in the 2024 Fortinet Cup on PGA TOUR Americas, records his first career top 10 in his eighth start on the Korn Ferry Tour.
• Jeffery Kang (T23/11-under) closes in 1-under 71 with a birdie on the par-5 18th for a second consecutive top-25 finish, which assures him of a place in the LECOM Suncoast Classic field.