Meet The 50 newest PGA TOUR members

ATLANTIC BEACH, Florida – The 2018 Web.com Tour season came to a close on Sunday in Atlantic Beach, Florida, as the Web.com Tour Championship wrapped up the sixth-annual Web.com Tour Finals. University of Virginia alum Denny McCarthy won the season-ending event, where 25 players secured their PGA TOUR cards for the 2018-19 season.

The Web.com Tour awarded a first set of 25 PGA TOUR cards for the 2018-19 season at the conclusion of the WinCo Foods Portland Open presented by Kraft-Heinz in August, with a second set of 25 solidified at the conclusion of the Finals.

South Korea native Sungjae Im began his rookie season with a win at the season-opening The Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay. The 20-year-old backed up his win with a runner-up finish the following week, essentially locking up a spot in The 25 at the end of the Regular Season. Im continued his momentum throughout the year, winning the Regular Season-ending WinCo Foods Portland Open to end the year with two victories and six additional top-10 finishes. Im’s performance continued into the Finals, allowing him to win the combined money list. Im became the first player in Tour history to lead the money list wire-to-wire for the duration of the season and became the first Korean-born player to be named a money list winner.

McCarthy graduated from the Web.com Tour via the Web.com Tour Finals in 2017, picking up three top-20 finishes in the four-event series to earn his first PGA TOUR card. The 25-year-old struggled in his rookie season on TOUR, however, carding just one top-10 finish in 22 starts. The three-time Maryland Open winner found his stride in the 2018 Web.com Tour Finals, notching four top-13 finishes, capped off by a win Sunday in Atlantic Beach.

By virtue of winning their respective money titles, Im and McCarthy have earned fully-exempt status on the PGA TOUR next year, which includes a spot in THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass, located just minutes from Atlantic Beach.

Jim Knous picked up the 25^th and final card with a par-save on the last. The Colorado School of Mines alum had a breakout sophomore season on Tour in 2018, picking up five top-25 finishes in the Regular Season to earn his first Web.com Tour Finals berth. Knous continued his strong play into the Finals, where he finished T10-T25-T24 in the first three events before eventually finishing at No. 25 on the Finals-only money list.

Four of the 25 players who secured their PGA TOUR cards solely through the Web.com Tour Finals will be rookies during the 2018-19 season. The top 25 are:

*=PGA TOUR rookie in 2018-19

Finishing 26^th on the Finals money list Justin Lower, who earned $41,441 to finish $490 behind Knous. Lower had a career-best season on Tour in 2019, earning a Web.com Tour Finals berth for the first time in his career. The Malone University alum was on the bubble all week, but ultimately missed an 8-foot birdie putt on the 72^nd hole at Atlantic Beach CC to come up just shy.

The 25 players from the Web.com Tour Finals money list will join the 25 players from the Regular Season money list on the PGA TOUR. The 25 from the Regular Season are below:

The 50 players are ranked, in order, following the conclusion of the Web.com Tour Finals. This order will be used to determine priority entry into PGA TOUR events for the upcoming season, which opens October 4^th with the Safeway Open in Napa, California.

1. Sungjae Im 
2. Denny McCarthy 
3. Kramer Hickok 
4. Sangmoon Bae 
5. Anders Albertson 
6. Robert Streb 
7. Sam Burns 
8. Peter Malnati 
9. Scott Langley 
10. Cameron Davis 
11. Cameron Champ 
12. Adam Schenk 
13. Martin Trainer 
14. Lucas Glover 
15. K.H. Lee 
16. Matt Jones 
17. Chase Wright 
18. Hunter Mahan 
19. Sebastián Muñoz 
20. Roger Sloan 
21. Kyle Jones 
22. Shawn Stefani 
23. Adam Svensson 
24. Seth Reeves 
25. Alex Prugh 
26. Max Homa 
27. John Chin 
28. Roberto Díaz 
29. José de Jesús Rodríguez
30. Stephan Jaeger 
31. Josh Teater 
32. Curtis Luck 
33. Carlos Ortiz 
34. Nicholas Lindheim 
35. Wyndham Clark 
36. Dylan Frittelli 
37. Adam Long 
38. Wes Roach 
39. Julian Etulain 
40. Sepp Straka 
41. Chris Thompson 
42. Cameron Tringale 
43. Joey Garber 
44. Ben Silverman 
45. Brady Schnell 
46. Michael Thompson 
47. Roberto Castro 
48. Fabián Gómez 
49. Hank Lebioda 
50. Jim Knous

For more information on the Web.com Tour or the Web.com Tour Finals, please visit PGATOUR.COM.