Q-School specialist Danny Walker earns first PGA TOUR card after sweating out bubble

Sometimes in professional golf, finding the groove is all about timing and momentum. The zone can be a fickle concept, but its fruits can be wondrous.

For Danny Walker, a runner-up finish at the Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Woodhouse kick-started a solid six-week stretch to close out his 2024 Korn Ferry Tour campaign and for the first time, he’s #TOURBound.

It was down to the wire for Walker, who finished No. 28 on the season-long Korn Ferry Tour Points List, among the top 30 to earn 2025 PGA TOUR membership. After finishing 121st on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List a year ago and needing to fight back from PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry’s First Stage, this was a tremendous bounce-back campaign. It culminated in a memorable Sunday afternoon for the Florida native, as he walked across the stage at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance to collect his PGA TOUR card.

“It’s the culmination of 20 years of work, probably,” said Walker, who first earned Korn Ferry Tour membership as 2018 Korn Ferry Tour Q-School medalist. “It’s been a dream since I was a little kid. I don’t know how else to put it into words beyond that.”

Walker, a University of Virginia alum, backed up his second-place result in Omaha with four straight top-25 finishes – including a tie for 10th at the Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron – to squeeze inside the top 30. Despite finishing T58 at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing and Finance, he didn’t get bumped from the top 30 after some on-the-bubble mathematics rolled in his favor.

It was a bit of an up-and-down start to the 2024 campaign for Walker before he found his groove in late June, notching three straight top-20 finishes at the Memorial Health Championship presented by LRS, The Ascendant presented by Blue, and Price Cutter Charity Championship presented by Dr Pepper. From late June through mid-September, he finished double digits under par in eight of nine tournaments, moving from No. 87 to No. 29 on the Points List in that stretch. He hung on across the season’s final two events to earn his PGA TOUR dream.

Walker, a two-time winner on PGA TOUR Canada (in 2018 and 2022) has played just one PGA TOUR event so far in his career (the 2020 Butterfield Bermuda Championship) but after getting into a well-timed groove through the latter part of 2024 on the Korn Ferry Tour, he’ll be adding to that number significantly next season – as he’s finally #TOURBound.

About Danny Walker

• Age: 29
• Hometown: Bradenton, Florida
• Alma mater: University of Virginia
• PGA TOUR starts: 1
• Cuts made: 0

Notes: Medaled at the 2018 Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament’s Final Stage to earn Korn Ferry Tour membership for the first time. Has made 66 career Korn Ferry Tour starts, in addition to 23 starts on PGA TOUR Canada … During some downtime in late 2021 and early 2022, took a job at a Bahama Breeze restaurant; he lasted two weeks and decided he had to get back to golf … Favorite major-league sports team is the Tampa Bay Rays … Once almost quit golf to pursue astrophysics … Aspires to be a Formula 1 driver, or a lead guitarist/singer for a huge rock band, though he says humorously neither will happen.