Here are the 20 KFT players who earned a PGA Tour card for 2026

Johnny Keefer finished atop the season-long Korn Ferry Tour standings, locking down his PGA Tour card for while also earning spots in next year’s U.S. Open and Players Championship.

Keefer, 24, ended a lights-out campaign on the PGA Tour’s feeder circuit by finishing 12th at its season finale in French Lick, Indiana. The Baylor product won twice on the Korn Ferry circuit and logged nine top 10s to finish No. 1 on the points list. Aside from the exemptions into TPC Sawgrass and Shinnecock, Keefer avoids the reshuffle in priority list that other Korn Ferry graduates face.

Nineteen other players earned promotion to the PGA Tour, highlighted by Chandler Blanchet, who won the KFT Championship on Sunday with a six-under 66. Blanchet, in his fourth season on the Korn Ferry Tour, also won the Price Cutter Charity Championship in August to finish second in the standings. Other notables to get their tour cards include Austin Smotherman, Neal Shipley, Christo Lamprecht and Pierceson Coody.

Mitchell Meissner was the odd man out. Entering the week at No. 21, a T-37 finish kept him on the wrong side of the number.

Here are the 20 players who earned their tour cards through the Korn Ferry Tour:

1. Johnny Keefer
2. Chandler Blanchet
3. Austin Smotherman
4. Neal Shipley
5. Emilio Gonzalez
6. Hank Lebioda
7. Adrien Dumont de Chassart
8. S.H. Kim
9. Christo Lamprecht
10. Davis Chatfield
11. Zach Bauchou
12. Pierceson Coody
13. S.T. Lee
14. Jeffry Kang
15. Kensei Hirata
16. Trace Crowe
17. John VanDerLaan
18. Marty Dou
19. Sudarshan Yellamaraju
20. Pontus Nyholm