Max McGreevy wins Memorial Health Championship presented by LRS, clinches 2025 PGA TOUR card

Max McGreevy believes he belongs on the PGA TOUR. He has earned another chance to prove it.

McGreevy, 29, earned his second Korn Ferry Tour title Sunday at the Memorial Health Championship presented by LRS, and he did so dramatically with a 13-foot winning birdie on the 72nd hole at Panther Creek Country Club in Springfield, Illinois. McGreevy finished at 24-under 260, one stroke clear of a hard-charging Steven Fisk, who joined McGreevy in clinching a PGA TOUR card on Sunday.

“I feel like I see it all the time on TV. I see (former housemate) Scottie (Scheffler) do it every week; these guys actually have putts to win,” McGreevy said after delivering an emphatic winning moment late Sunday afternoon. “My one Korn Ferry (Tour) win, I sat and waited … This, I actually clinched it myself. The feeling of that, I honestly think is going to even bolster my confidence, my golf game, everything, just a lot more. Excited to actually have that opportunity to finish it out in style like I did.

“That's all I was looking for, was a chance. I was telling myself that. Looked at a couple pictures of my wife and my baby-to-come in my yardage book, calmed me down, and I was ready to go.”

The victory moves McGreevy to No. 2 on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List, safely inside the top 30 to earn 2025 PGA TOUR membership, which is finalized after the season-ending Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance. The University of Oklahoma alum has now notched six top-10s in 16 Korn Ferry Tour starts this season, demonstrating a more consistent game after the early years of his professional career saw a feast-or-famine pattern in his results.

McGreevy, a seven-year pro, carried a one-stroke lead into the final round of the Memorial Health Championship, built on the strength of a third-round 62 in the Land of Lincoln. Results didn’t come as easily on Sunday, but the Edmond, Oklahoma native rebounded from a bogey at No. 1 with back-to-back birdies on Nos. 5 and 6. From there, he carded nine straight pars until an up-and-down birdie at the par-5 16th. He gave back a shot with a three-putt bogey at the par-3 17th, missing a 2-foot par putt.

Rather than spiraling after that short miss, though, McGreevy rebounded in sterling fashion with a well-placed tee shot at the 436-yard, par-4 18th hole down the fairway’s left side – safely avoiding the pond that hugs the hole’s right side. He flushed a 187-yard approach to 13 feet and seized the moment with a walk-off winning birdie.

It brought him back into the winner’s circle, adding to his victory at the 2020 Price Cutter Charity Championship presented by Dr Pepper (in Springfield, Missouri) and cementing his place on the 2025 PGA TOUR.

“I've kind of been playing for seven years now, so I think I've figured out the ways to calm myself down, to take a second,” McGreevy said afterward. “Maybe it took a couple of years for me to figure that out, but I've gotten to the point where I can actually relax a little bit more on the golf course rather than what I did in the past.

“Just banking on some old memories and stuff like that and just figuring out what works for me is kind of going to keep me in the best mindset all day.”

This will mark McGreevy’s second time earning TOUR membership through the Korn Ferry Tour. McGreevy earned his first TOUR card via the 2020-21 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, an extended two-year season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to his breakthrough victory in August 2020, that season included a playoff loss at the 2021 Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club, after which he memorably grew emotional when discussing the magnitude of his PGA TOUR dream. “This is my life, this is my dream and hopefully I get that chance one day,” he said after falling to Adam Svensson in a playoff in Savannah. He achieved that dream with a top-25 finish on the Korn Ferry Tour’s 2020-21 season-long standings, but he lost his TOUR card after two seasons, finishing No. 177 on the 2023 FedExCup Fall standings.

After two years of living his dream – alongside friends including former housemate Scottie Scheffler – McGreevy returned to the Korn Ferry Tour for 2024, striving to employ a more veteran-type mindset and increase consistency in his results. He has proven through his career that he has the firepower to contend in any given week, but could he develop the well-rounded game to notch decent results even if not playing his best?

This season, he has taken the necessary steps to do so. And he proved at the Memorial Health Championship that the firepower is still there, as well.

McGreevy and his wife Olivia have their first child on the way, which they announced on Instagram just last week. They’re brimming with anticipation for a new phase of life; they know it will change drastically, but they’re ready for it.

And they’ll start their family on the PGA TOUR. That has a nice ring to it.

“It's been seven years now for me (as a pro), and I have had a lot of success, but there's going to be lows,” McGreevy said. “There are going to be so many lows. Fortunately, I'm riding the biggest high of my life after finding out I'm going to have a little girl, winning this golf tournament. But unfortunately, I know that lows are going to come in the future, too.

“But you just have to know that those things happen, and I'm going to enjoy this so much with my wife and my family and all of my friends and everyone. I can't put into words these last couple weeks, last couple months. It's going to make it a lot better having day care on the PGA TOUR next year.”