Steven Fisk secures first PGA TOUR card after persevering through uncertainty

Steven Fisk is heading to the PGA TOUR for the 2025 season.

With a runner-up finish at the Memorial Health Championship presented by LRS, Fisk moved atop the Korn Ferry Tour’s season-long standings with 10 events remaining. The sixth-year pro via Georgia Southern University has comfortably cemented a top-30 spot on the season-long Korn Ferry Tour Points List with five top-five finishes in 13 starts, including a win. Now he’s set to fulfill a lifelong dream.

“It’s not something that I feel like I’ve been ready for in the past,” Fisk said. “I actually spoke to my wife and family towards the end of last season, saying if I were to have a great finish to 2023, maybe getting on the PGA TOUR is not something I was ready for. And now … I feel like it’s something that I’m ready to do.”

Fisk's journey to the PGA TOUR took a significant turn in April with his breakthrough win at the Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club in Savannah. That victory, which catapulted him from 142nd to eighth on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List, was a crucial step toward his PGA TOUR qualification. The season-long standings (top 30 earn PGA TOUR cards) are finalized after the Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance in October.

Fisk proved that his victory in Savannah was not a one-hit wonder. He followed that victory with four top-five finishes over his next seven starts, including the runner-up finish in Springfield, Illinois – just one stroke behind Max McGreevy – that clinched his 2025 PGA TOUR card.

Fisk's dedication to the sport was evident in his early years. He started playing golf when he was 5 years old at Rum Creek Golf Course in Stockbridge, Georgia. His parents, Chris and Lisa, owned the par-3 course where Fisk had free rein to play as many rounds as he wished and hit range balls until dusk. He never took a golf lesson until he turned professional. Fisk is first in greens in regulation on the Korn Ferry Tour and credits his consistent approach play to his upbringing at Rum Creek.

“I think it made me a pretty good iron player,” said Fisk. “When I was younger, I wasn’t very big and all the greens at Rum Creek were elevated, so you had to be pretty accurate if you wanted birdie putts. That molded my game.”

Fisk enjoyed success as a junior golfer in Georgia, earning 2014 GHSA First Team All-State. He carried an exemplary work ethic for a junior golfer and wanted to be pushed to play his best, which caught the eye of Carter Collins, Georgia Southern head men’s golf coach.

“Tenacity, competitiveness, and work ethic are the three things that come to mind when I think about Steven during the recruitment process,” Collins told PGATOUR.COM.

Fisk became an immediate asset to the Eagles, winning Sun Belt Freshman of the Year in 2015-16. During his junior year, he set a school record with a 69.78 scoring average on his way to being named semi-finalist for the Division I Jack Nicklaus National Player of the Year Award. Fisk bested his scoring average record in his senior year (69.03) en route to finishing second in the NCAA Individual Championship, and he represented the winning United States team at the 2019 Walker Cup at Royal Liverpool.

The most impressive aspect of Fisk’s 2019 senior season was his battle with carpometacarpal bossing in his left hand. More commonly known as a carpel boss, carpometacarpal bossing is a bony lump or overgrowth on the back of the wrist where the pointer and middle fingers meet the wrist bones. He would later find out it was a product of how he created lag in his homemade golf swing.

Fisk grinded through the injury at the Walker Cup and set his sights on 2019 Korn Ferry Tour Q-School. He fell short at First Stage by one stroke, and a few months later, Fisk had surgery to repair the carpel boss.

Eager to stay involved in the game, Fisk spent his brief recovery as a volunteer assistant coach at Georgia Southern. He helped take the team to the Colleton River Collegiate in Bluffton, South Carolina, where the Eagles took home first place.

“He’s shown himself that when he’s in an environment to help others, the amount of knowledge he can provide is tremendous. You look at Ben Carr and Mason Williams, both former Eagles having success on PGA TOUR-sanctioned circuits; Steven has been a great mentor to both of those guys,” said Collins.

Fisk returned to competitive golf in June 2020 and competed in GProTour events and Korn Ferry Tour Monday qualifiers until he earned status on the Forme Tour (a PGA TOUR Canada substitute during the COVID-19 pandemic’s early stages) in spring 2021. The next year, Fisk earned his Korn Ferry Tour card, finishing T10 at Q-School, and began his three-year trek to the PGA TOUR. But not before Fisk’s surgically repaired left hand and wrist began to aggravate him again.

“It flared back up after surgery. That’s when I got in touch with Justin Parsons,” said Fisk. “I had to understand that someone knows the golf swing better than I do. I can’t do everything on my own. To get to the highest level, unless you’re an outlier, you need a lot of people around you who can help, and Justin is a great resource.”

Parsons, who teaches at Sea Island Resort in Georgia, was mentored by Butch Harmon and works with PGA TOUR winners like Brian Harman, Harris English, Ben Martin and Davis Love III. Parsons credits Harmon with teaching him to understand unique swings like Fisk employs.

“I’ve always been someone who’s tried to refine the teaching process to be able to deal with the individual as opposed to thinking of a perfect swing,” Parsons told PGATOUR.COM. “It wasn’t purely that Steven didn’t like how he swung the club. He had left wrist issues and had some specific challenges with the movement he was making that would continue putting pressure on his wrist.”

Parsons discovered that the pressure Fisk was putting on his left wrist was a product of how he created shaft lean in his downswing. They worked on coordinating Fisk’s motion of the golf club on the way up to put him in position to coordinate the movement on the way down. Fisk still had plenty of shaft lean, but it’s now supported by the rotation of his body on the way down, taking pressure off his left wrist.

After working with Parsons in 2022, Fisk has been largely on his own, although he still relies on Parsons' lessons.

“To this day, I think about the stuff we talked about over the last few years that’s helped me get to this point,” said Fisk. “I finally have a grasp on why things happen. I’ve reached a point where I can make some small tweaks on the fly and get things straightened out in my golf swing.”

In addition to his work with Parsons, Fisk credits his caddie, Nico Torres of Argentina, for much of his success. The two began working together at the NV5 Invitational presented by Old National Bank in Chicago last year, and Fisk enjoys Torres’ personality and consistent day-to-day routine.

Fisk values having a team around him now. He improved year-to-year at Georgia Southern through Coach Collins’ guidance, and he’s done the same at the professional level. Fisk has logged 12 top-25 and six top-10 finishes through 38 events over the last two seasons.

“He’s the one that’s done all the heavy lifting,” said Collins. “The way he maintains his composure is impressive, especially with his competitiveness. That’s the biggest thing I’ve noticed when watching him play professionally. It’s amazing to watch a kid grow up, and now he is heading to the PGA TOUR.”