Germany's Thomas Rosenmueller clinches first PGA TOUR card

It's been a steady climb for Thomas Rosenmueller in the golf ranks, albeit with bouts of adversity along the way. It's all good, though. It has culminated in a PGA TOUR card.

Rosenmueller finished T40 at the Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation, the Korn Ferry Tour Finals' second leg, to clinch his 2025 PGA TOUR card with two events remaining. The top 30 on the season-long standings after the Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance will earn 2025 PGA TOUR membership. Rosenmueller ranks No. 16 in the standings and cannot be bumped from the top 30.

Rosenmueller, 27, hails from Munich, Germany, and played collegiately at the University of North Texas before turning pro in 2019, despite a wrist injury that derailed his senior season and left him admittedly unable to break 80. (He returned to Germany amid the COVID-19 pandemic and enrolled in a master's degree program at a local university as a backup plan.) Things quickly shifted in 2020 as he won three times on the Pro Golf Tour and finished atop the Order of Merit to earn 2021 Challenge Tour membership, and he first earned Korn Ferry Tour membership via Q-School in the fall 2021.

Rosenmueller finished a distant 158th on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List in 2022, but he regained starts with a fifth-place finish at the Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament's Final Stage that fall, buoyed by the unwavering belief of sponsors and supporters. He improved to No. 67 on the season-long standings in 2023, his year highlighted by a third-place finish at the Finals-opening Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron, to earn exempt Korn Ferry Tour status for 2024.

He has taken advantage with eight top-25s this season, including a win at the NV5 Invitational presented by Old National Bank in July, to secure his first PGA TOUR card. That win came just weeks after a neck injury that left him unable to turn his head, and even caused bouts of dizziness when he swung the golf club. As he often does, he battled through.

“I mean, 2020 was great, 2021 was horrendous, 2022 was even worse … now I’m here on the verge of a PGA TOUR card,” Rosenmueller said upon winning the NV5. "It's unbelievable. It's a lot of weight coming off my shoulders ... all the work I've put in, it's nice to see it finally pay off."

About Thomas Rosenmueller

Age: 27
Hometown: Munich, Germany
Alma mater: University of North Texas
PGA TOUR starts: 0