Ian Holt wins The Panama Championship and back-to-back titles on the Korn Ferry Tour after winning The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club.

Charting the champion (stats updated through tournament)

Ian Holt (first/8-under)

• Earns first and second Korn Ferry Tour titles in consecutive starts (The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club; The Panama Championship), becoming the first player since Harry Higgs (2024/AdventHealth Championship; Visit Knoxville Open) to win back-to-back Korn Ferry Tour events
• Closes in 3-under 67, playing the final six holes in 1-under par (five pars, birdie at par-4 14th) to total 8-under 272 for a two-stroke victory over PGA TOUR winner Adam Hadwin
• Becomes the first player in Korn Ferry Tour history (established 1990) to earn two victories in the first three events of a season; the last two players to win twice within the first six events of the season went on to earn the Three-Victory Promotion (Wesley Bryan/2016; Carlos Ortiz/2014)

Fastest to multiple wins in a Korn Ferry Tour season

• Stands No. 1 on the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Points List with 1,036.50 points; the top 20 players upon conclusion of the season-ending 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by Virginia’s Richmond Region will earn PGA TOUR membership for the 2027 season
  • Last season, Pontus Nyholm finished No. 20 on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour Points List with 1,030.51 points and earned the last available PGA TOUR card for the 2026 season.
• Finished No. 42 on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, earning full status for the 2026 season
• Recorded a T54 finish in 2025 at The Panama Championship, 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

• PGA TOUR winner Adam Hadwin (second/6-under) posts a runner-up finish in his first Korn Ferry Tour start since 2014, when he finished No. 1 in the standings off the strength of victories at the Astara Chile Classic presented by Scotiabank and Chiquita Classic.
• Two-time Korn Ferry Tour winner Trevor Cone (third/4-under) records his highest finish on Tour since winning the 2022 AdventHealth Championship, a victory which propelled him to PGA TOUR membership at season’s end.
• Cole Hammer (T4/3-under) records his first top 10 on Tour since the 2025 Astara Chile Classic presented by Scotiabank, where he finished T3.
• Ian Gilligan (T4/3-under), who finished No. 4 in the 2025 PGA TOUR University Ranking, converts his first made cut of the 2026 season into his career-high finish on Tour (previous: 2025 Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation/T7).
• Korn Ferry Tour winner Jeremy Gandon (T4/3-under) records his highest finish on Tour since winning the 2025 Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf and Athletic Club.