Braden Thornberry

Exempt status

• Korn Ferry Tour: Top 75 in 2020-21 Regular Season Standings (thru 2022)

JOINED TOUR

• Korn Ferry Tour: 2019

Personal

• Competed in six professional events as an amateur, with a top finish of T4 at the 2017 FedEx St Jude Classic.
• Two-time high school state champion, First Team Rolex Junior All-American with the AJGA.
• College accolades include 2017 individual NCAA champion, 2017 Fred Haskins Award winner, 2017 Sunnehanna Amateur champion, 2017 Jones Cup Invitational champion, 11-time winner at Ole Miss.
• Earliest golf memory was seeing Tiger Woods make the putt to force a playoff against Rocco Mediate at the 2008 U.S. Open.
• When younger, interests included riding dirt bikes and becoming a second degree black belt.
• Living near Memphis, grew up attending the FedEx St. Jude Classic.

Special Interests

Career Highlights

2021 Season

Logged 11 top-25s and had 25 made cuts in 43 Korn Ferry Tour starts across the 2020-21 combined season, which saw him finish No. 57 in the regular season points standings. Concluded the Korn Ferry Tour Finals with a T11 at the 2021 Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance, which left him at No. 28 in the Korn Ferry Tour Finals points standings. Posted a season-best T5 at the 2021 MGM Resorts Championship at Paiute.

• Visit Knoxville Open: Used four rounds of 68 or better to rise to a T10 finish at the Visit Knoxville Open.
• MGM Resorts Championship at Paiute: Carded a final-round 3-under 69 to finish T5 at 9-under at the MGM Resorts Championship at Paiute.
• Chitimacha Louisiana Open presented by MISTRAS: Shot a second-round 8-under 63 and finished T8 at 12-under 272 at the Chitimacha Louisiana Open presented by MISTRAS.

2020 Season

• Wichita Open Supporting Wichita's Youth: Highlighted by a final-round 65, finished the Wichita Open Supporting Wichita's Youth T8 at 12-under 268.

2019 Season

Finished the season at No. 101 on the Regular Season points list. Recorded two top-10s in 14 starts, including a season-best T5 at the Lincoln Land Championship presented by LRS.

• TPC Colorado Championship at Heron Lakes: Carded a final-round 66 to rise to T7 at the TPC Colorado Championship at Heron Lakes, his second career top-10.
• Lincoln Land Championship presented by LRS: Carded rounds of 66-67 on the weekend to finish T5 at 12-under at the Lincoln Land Championship presented by LRS, the best finish of his career and first top-10 on the Korn Ferry Tour.

Q SCHOOL GRADUATE

• Korn Ferry Tour: 2018