See who advanced from Second Stage of PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry

SAVANNAH, Ga. – Nothing compares to Second Stage of PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry.

It’s the perfect blend of high stakes and ultimate finality. Players who advance are guaranteed 2025 Korn Ferry Tour membership at minimum, with a chance to secure guaranteed starts – and chase five PGA TOUR cards (and ties) – at Final Stage in mid-December. Players who finish outside the cut line, without any backup status, are faced with an uncertain future in professional golf.

This week featured one Second Stage site, with the top 18 finishers and ties advancing to Final Stage, which will be contested Dec. 12-15 across TPC Sawgrass’ Dye’s Valley Course and Sawgrass Country Club (two rounds at each course). The medalist and ties at each Second Stage site will secure eight guaranteed starts at minimum on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour.

Four Second Stage sites will be contested Dec. 3-6. Click here to track all scores from all stages of 2024 PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry.

Here's a capsule look at the players to advance from PGA TOUR Q-School’s Second Stage so far.

Nov. 19-22

The Landings Golf & Athletic Club (Deer Creek)

Savannah, Georgia
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Who advances: The top 18 and ties advanced to Final Stage; 20 players advanced at 12-under 276 or better.

Marcelo Rozo, 35, earned medalist honors at 23-under 265, three strokes clear of Zack Fischer. Rozo has made 124 career Korn Ferry Tour starts, including a runner-up at the 2019 NV5 Invitational presented by Old National Bank, where he fell to Scottie Scheffler in a playoff. Rozo secures eight guaranteed Korn Ferry Tour starts in 2025, and he can play free at Final Stage as he chases his first PGA TOUR card. Rozo, who recently earned his real estate license as an avenue for supplemental income, finished No. 128 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour season-long standings and was grateful to have financial support to give Q-School another run. With a sparkling performance in Savannah, he validated the belief of his supporters – and most importantly, his family. “My wife is my rock. She is the rock of my house … my kid, I do it for them,” said an emotional Rozo on Friday. “I’m very lucky to have them in my life … her family, my family, good friends … there are a couple people that I have to thank because they helped me pay for Q-School. I couldn’t afford it. I had to go work between First Stage and Second Stage.” Now he has regained his job as a Korn Ferry Tour pro.

Notables to advance: On his 10-year wedding anniversary, Zack Fischer regained Korn Ferry Tour status with a runner-up finish at 20-under. Fischer, 35, is a two-time medalist at Q-School’s Final Stage (2013 and 2021) – but neither event offered PGA TOUR status. Fischer has yet to earn a PGA TOUR card; next month at Final Stage, he’ll have that opportunity. The University of Texas-Arlington alum has made 138 career Korn Ferry Tour starts and finished No. 61 on the 2024 PGA TOUR Americas’ season-long Fortinet Cup … Cleveland State alum Jake Scott, 37, finished solo eighth at 16-under to earn his first trip to Q-School’s Final Stage since 2014. Scott finished No. 68 on the 2024 PGA TOUR Americas’ season-long Fortinet Cup and has served as a teaching pro and college golf assistant coach, among other pursuits in the game … Recent Oklahoma State grad Rayhan Thomas finished T12 at 13-under, one stroke inside the number. Thomas was born in India and grew up in Dubai before coming to the United States for college … With former PGA TOUR pro Will Wilcox on the bag, Georgia Southern alum Ben Carr also finished T12 at 13-under. Carr finished runner-up to Sam Bennett at the 2022 U.S. Amateur and placed No. 17 on the 2023 PGA TOUR University Ranking … Cameron Huss (T12) and Jake Hall (T18) each advanced from pre-qualifying through Second Stage to earn 2025 Korn Ferry Tour membership. Huss is a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin; Hall recently graduated from the University of Tennessee.

Notables to miss: Ollie Schniederjans, a veteran of 102 PGA TOUR starts, finished T21 at 11-under, one stroke outside the number … Former top-ranked amateur Morgan Hoffmann, who received the 2020 PGA TOUR Courage Award for his efforts battling muscular dystrophy, finished T33 at 8-under … Braden Shattuck, winner of the 2023 PGA Professional Championship, five-putted the final hole for double bogey to finish T33 at 8-under, four strokes outside the number … Spencer Levin, a veteran of 385 starts across the PGA TOUR and Korn Ferry Tour, finished T51 at 5-under.

Dec. 3-6

Hammock Beach Conservatory

Palm Coast, Florida
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Who advances: The top 15 and ties advanced to Final Stage; 18 players advanced at 5-under 283 or better.

Luke Guthrie, 34, will have a chance to return to the PGA TOUR nearly a decade after he lost his card. The collegiate stud turned Korn Ferry Tour grinder birdied the final two holes to finish at 12-under 276 and earn medalist honors by two strokes. That earned him eight guaranteed Korn Ferry Tour starts, more than he’s made on that tour since 2021. Guthrie’s a name you likely remember. He won twice on the Korn Ferry Tour straight out of college to earn his TOUR card as a 22-year-old. He spent four years on the PGA TOUR from 2013-16, but finished No. 175 on the FedExCup standings in ‘16 and never returned. He played well enough to retain Korn Ferry Tour status from 2017-21 but fell off the map after missing 30 of 38 cuts in the COVID-19-extended 2020-21 season. He spent the last several years battling his swing while toiling away on the mini-tours and missing Monday qualifiers. That grind is over, but a new one begins next week with a TOUR card in the balance.

Notables to advance: Seventeen of the 18 qualifiers began the final round on the first hole. The lone exception: Charlie Reiter. Reiter fired a final-round 5-under 67 to finish on the number and advance to Final Stage. The 25-year-old’s claim to fame before Friday was the 380-yard drives and 200mph ball speed he hit as a qualifier at the U.S. Open earlier this year. But he had never held any status on the Korn Ferry Tour or PGA TOUR Americas until securing conditional status today. Reiter finished birdie-bogey-birdie, just enough to advance … 2023 Latin America Amateur champion Mateo Fernandez de Oliveir, 24, comfortably qualified for Final Stage, finishing at 10-under. Oliveir is exempt for the beginning of next year’s PGA TOUR Americas season, but will be looking to improve that at Final Stage … Davis Shore survived a double-bogey on the 18th hole to finish on the number at 5-under and advance. Shore finished No. 73 on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List, meaning he can only improve his status with a strong finish next week. He finished on the number alongside Reiter, Caleb VanArragon, Jeremy Gandon and John Houchin … Former PGA TOUR members Hank Lebioda (7-under) and Zecheng Dou (8-under) also advanced.

Notables to miss: Sean Walsh, a member of the popular YouTube group Good Good, shot 2-over 74 to finish 1-under and miss out on qualifying by four strokes. Walsh bogeyed three of the first four holes to fall out of contention … former DP World Tour winner Julian Suri missed by one stroke, failing to birdie the closing par-5 18th … Christian DiMarco, son of PGA TOUR great Chris DiMarco, shot a final-round 77 to finish 3-over … 15-time APGA Tour winner Willie Mack III, who received a sponsor exemption to the 2025 Farmers Insurance Open earlier this week, finished 5-over, 10 shots out of qualifying.

Kinderlou Forest Golf Club

Valdosta, Georgia
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Who advances: The top 16 and ties advanced to Final Stage; 17 players advanced at 1-under 287 or better.

Wisconsin native Samuel Anderson, 26, earned medalist honors at 12-under 276 to cement eight guaranteed starts on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour, and he can free-wheel at Final Stage to chase a PGA TOUR card via the top five and ties. Anderson carded a final-round 71 at a frigid, windy Kinderlou Forest to finish six strokes clear of Oklahoma State alum Aman Gupta and University of Oklahoma alum Blaine Hale, Jr., who was a 2024 PGA TOUR member via Q-School. Anderson played collegiately at the University of Wisconsin and competed full-time on PGA TOUR Americas in 2024, notching five top-10s in 16 starts and placing No. 15 on the season-long Fortinet Cup.

Notables to advance: Yale alum James Nicholas finished T5 at 4-under 284. Nicholas, a popular content creator, has made 39 Korn Ferry Tour starts and played full-time on the DP World Tour in 2024 … Michigan native Brett White finished solo 11th at 2-under 286. White, 31, has made 26 career Korn Ferry Tour starts and spent a year away from golf (spanning 2017-18) after spending three weeks in the hospital with viral encephalitis and undergoing 10 weeks of physical therapy to relearn how to walk … Jacksonville, Florida, native Travis Trace drained a 15-foot birdie on the 72nd hole to advance on the number at 1-under 287, marking his first trip to Q-School’s Final Stage. Trace, 28, competed on PGA TOUR Americas in 2024, notching three top-10s and finishing No. 38 on the Fortinet Cup … Luke Gifford and Derek Hitchner, former college teammates at Pepperdine, each finished on the number at 1-under. Gifford and Hitchner shared a rental house for the week in Valdosta.

Notables to miss: After an opening-round, 7-over 79, Neal Shipley fought back to even-par 288 but missed by a single stroke. Shipley finished as low amateur at this year’s Masters and U.S. Open, joining Viktor Hovland as the only players in the last quarter-century to earn low amateur honors in those two majors in the same year … Three-time PGA TOUR winner Jim Herman finished at 2-over 290, three strokes off the number … George Bryan IV finished at 7-over 295, eight strokes off the number. Bryan is co-founder of the popular “Bryan Bros Golf” YouTube channel alongside his brother Wesley, who won the 2017 RBC Heritage and was named 2016 Korn Ferry Tour Player of the Year.

Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail – Highlands/Marshwood

Dothan, Alabama
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Who advances: The top 17 and ties advanced to Final Stage; 20 players advanced at 8-under 280 or better.

Ashton Van Horne and Owen Stamper shared medalist honors at 15-under 273 to cement eight guaranteed starts on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour. Van Horne, 30, played collegiately at Belmont University and has made 44 career Korn Ferry Tour starts, highlighted by a runner-up at the 2022 Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank and InterMountain Health. Stamper hails from Scottsville, Kentucky, and played collegiately at Middle Tennessee State, where he won the Jim Rivers Invitational as a senior in fall 2023 and secured back-to-back Conference USA Player of the Week honors that same semester.

Notables to advance: John Augenstein finished solo third at 13-under. The Vanderbilt alum finished runner-up at the 2019 U.S. Amateur and has made 72 career Korn Ferry Tour starts, in addition to 14 PGA TOUR starts … Jack Maguire finished T11 at 9-under, one stroke inside the number. The Florida State alum finished No. 67 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List to retain full status for 2025 … Pepperdine alum Sam Choi finished T16 at 8-under, squarely on the number to advance. Choi finished No. 11 on the 2023 PGA TOUR University Ranking and ranked No. 2 on the 2023 PGA TOUR Canada’s season-long Fortinet Cup; he made 12 Korn Ferry Tour starts in 2024.

Notables to miss: Marcus Byrd finished T21 at 7-under, one stroke outside the cut line. The six-time APGA winner competed full-time on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour, placing No. 107 on the season-long standings … D.J. Trahan, a veteran of 370 TOUR starts with two victories, finished at 2-under, six off the pace … Paul Haley, who has made 204 starts between the PGA TOUR and Korn Ferry Tour, finished at 14-over.

Valencia Country Club

Valencia, California
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Who advances: The top 15 and ties advanced to Final Stage; 16 players advanced at 7-under 281 or better.

Petr Hruby earned medalist honors at 15-under 273 to cement eight guaranteed starts on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour. Hruby, 23, played collegiately at the University of Washington, where he notched eight top-10 finishes as a fifth-year senior in 2023-24. The pickleball enthusiast hails from Pilsen, Czech Republic, a mid-sized city roughly 50 miles west of Prague.

Notables to advance: Japan’s Takumi Kanaya finished T4 at 12-under. The seven-time Japan Golf Tour winner was ranked atop the World Amateur Golf Ranking for 55 weeks and turned pro in 2020 … Mexico’s Raul Pereda, who earned his first TOUR card at Q-School’s Final Stage a year ago, finished T4 at 12-under to earn a return ticket to Final Stage … Sangmoon Bae finished T6 at 10-under. The South Korean, 38, has made 190 career PGA TOUR starts including victories at THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson in 2013 and the Procore Championship in 2014 … Los Angeles native Jeffrey Kang, 33, carded a final-round 66 to advance on the number at 7-under. The University of Southern California alum finished No. 81 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List to retain conditional status at minimum.

Notables to miss: Pepperdine alum Joey Vrzich finished at 6-under, one off the number, despite four birdies in his last seven holes. Vrzich placed No. 24 on the 2024 PGA TOUR Americas’ season-long Fortinet Cup … Japan’s Ryo Ishikawa finished at 5-under, two off the cut line. Ishikawa is a 20-time Japan Golf Tour winner and has competed in 25 major championships … Australia native Grant Booth, whose good friend Taylor Montgomery flew in to caddie for the final round, finished at 4-under, three off the number … Korn Ferry Tour winners to fall short included Andrew Kozan (5-under), T.J. Vogel (2-under) and Brent Grant (1-over).