With a final-round 71, Ian Holt won The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club by one stroke, finishing 12-under and converting his first 54-hole lead into his maiden Korn Ferry Tour title.

Charting the champion

(stats updated through tournament)

Ian Holt (first/-12)

• Counters five bogeys (Nos. 4, 9, 10, 13, 14) with six birdies (Nos. 1, 3, 5, 8, 12, 18), including a two-putt birdie at the par-5 18th to close in 1-under 71
• This was his 45th career start on Tour; his previous career-high finish on Tour was T2 at the 118th Visa Argentina Open presented by Macro in February 2025
• Third consecutive player to make The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club their first Korn Ferry Tour win (Sudarshan Yellamaraju/2025; Aldrich Potgieter/2024)
• At 12-under 276, finishes with the third-highest 72-hole score by a winner of The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club (Aldrich Potgieter/10-under 278/2024; Rafael Campos/7-under 281/2019)
• Finished No. 42 on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, earning full status for the 2026 season
• Recorded a T40 finish at the 2025 The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club, his only previous appearance in the event
• Fourth season with Korn Ferry Tour membership (2019, 2023, 2025); he previously finished No. 150 on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour Points List as a rookie
• Finished No. 10 on the 2024 PGA TOUR Americas Points List, earning Korn Ferry Tour membership for 2025
• Began the 2024 PGA TOUR Americas Season with conditional status and open qualified into his season debut at the 2024 Times Colonist Victoria Open, the eighth event of the season; he recorded back-to-back top-25 finishes and won his third start at the 2024 Explore NB Open, which propelled him to a top-10 finish on the 2024 PGA TOUR Americas Points List
• Turned professional in 2018 and played four seasons on PGA TOUR Canada (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022)
• Played four seasons at Kent State University (2014-18), where he earned three collegiate victories, including medalist honors at the 2018 Mid-American Conference Championship, and was named the MAC Golfer of the Year in 2017 and 2018

Additional notes

• Alistair Docherty (T2/-11) closes in 6-under 66, the lowest score of the final round by two strokes, and matches his career-high finish on Tour (T2/2024 Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by Virginia’s Richmond Region); he finished in the top 50 of the Korn Ferry Tour Points List each of the last two seasons (No. 32 in 2024, No. 50 in 2025).
• Justin Hastings (T2/-11), who plays from Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, and won the 2025 Latin America Amateur Championship, finishes with four consecutive pars following a double bogey at the par-5 14th, securing a runner-up finish in his third career start on the Korn Ferry Tour; he finished No. 13 in the 2025 PGA TOUR University Ranking after four seasons at San Diego State University (2021-25), and he is committed to next week’s Farmers Insurance Open on the PGA TOUR as a sponsor exemption.
• Barend Botha (fourth/-10), who finished T22 at the 2026 season-opening The Bahamas Golf Classic at Atlantis Paradise Island after a No. 28 finish on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour Points List as a rookie, records his third top-10 finish in his last four Korn Ferry Tour starts (T7/2025 Compliance Solutions Championship; second/2025 Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by Virginia’s Richmond Region).
• Blades Brown (T17/-4), an 18-year-old professional who earned full status for the 2026 season with a No. 68 finish on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, closes in even-par 72 for his second top-25 in his last three starts on Tour (T18/2025 Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by Virginia’s Richmond Region); he will compete on the PGA TOUR Thursday as a sponsor exemption at The American Express.