A.J. Crouch

Exempt status

• Korn Ferry Tour: Qualifying Tournament Finishers 11-40 and Ties (thru 2022)

JOINED TOUR

• PGA TOUR Latinoamérica: 2020
• PGA TOUR Canada: 2020
• Korn Ferry Tour: 2022

Personal

• Could dunk a basketball when he was in high school and college but hasn't tried since.
• Favorite golf memory is growing up attending every PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass for as long as he can remember. Once got lost and separated from his parents at the tournament when he was 10.
• Is the oldest of five siblings, and four out of five of them have won a high school state championship in as many sports. (Marcy-soccer, Caroline-tennis, Davey-basketball and 1000 point career scorer). Youngest brother is a junior in high school, so is still working on making it five o ut of five.
• Credits his golf talent and interest from his grandfather Allin Crouch.
• Is a big Jacksonville Jaguars fan.
• Is a functional Spanish speaker.
• Won All-school athletic awards for golf and basketball while in high school.

Special Interests

• Snowboarding, geography, trivia

CURRENT YEAR HIGHLIGHTS

• The Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay: Made his Korn Ferry Tour debut and tied the lowest score of the final round, a 7-under 65, climbing from T29 to a T6 finish with a 9-under 279 at The Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay.

Career Highlights

2022 Season

• The Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay: Made his Korn Ferry Tour debut and tied the lowest score of the final round, a 7-under 65, climbing from T29 to a T6 finish with a 9-under 279 at The Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay.

2021 Season

Appeared in all eight PGA TOUR Latinoamérica tournaments, making five cuts and posting one top-25. Ended the season 58th on the Points List. Without any status, qualified into tournaments and made the most of his four Forme Tour starts. Made all four cuts, enjoying one top-10—a runner-up finish—to place 12th on the final Points List.

• The Fuzzy Zoeller Classic at Covered Bridge Golf Club: Was not exempt into the tournament and open-qualified his way in. Took full advantage of the opportunity, getting increasingly better with each day at Fuzzy’s Covered Bridge GC. After a third-round 64 put him in contention, he kept the pedal down, chasing Trevor Werbylo and eventually catching him on the back nine. Made a late bogey, at No. 17, with Werbylo making a birdie to open a two-stroke lead. Had an eagle putt on the 18th hole to put pressure on Werbylo and ended up making a tap-in birdie. Werbylo parred the closing hole to secure the one-shot win. The final-round 62 gave him the runner-up finish and qualified him for the next tournament.
• Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada Q-School-USA East 1: Earned conditional Mackenzie tour status with a 69-70-67 finish over his final 54 holes at The Club at Weston Hills to T9 with Dylan Naidoo, Hayden Springer and Jake Kevorikian, at 10-under.

2020 Season

Played the inaugural LOCALiQ Series, appearing in eight tournaments, making six cuts and posting one top-10. Finished the season 52nd on the points list.

• Classic at The Club at Weston Hills (LOCALiQ Series): Played stellar golf through the first 36 holes, taking a three-shot advantage into the final round in Fort Lauderdale. Was 1-under through the day when he made the turn to the back nine at The Club at Weston Hills. After a par-bogey-par start to his final nine, met with disaster with a double bogey-6 at the 13th. Made pars the rest of the way to fall into a T7 with seven others.
• Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada Q-School-USA East 2: Finished T30 at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Highland Oaks in mid-March in Dothan, Ala., to earn conditional status on the Forme Tour.
• PTLA Qualifying Tournament-Weston Hills CC: During windy conditions at Weston Hills CC’s Tour Course, was the only player to get to double-digits under-par and to shoot four sub-par rounds as his final-round 68 allowed him to come from off the pace and coast to a two-shot victory over Piri Borja. As the medalist, he will be exempt for the entire PGA TOUR Latinoamérica season.

Amateur Highlights

• Named Southeastern Conference Academic All-American from 2013 through 2017.

Q SCHOOL GRADUATE

• PGA TOUR Latinoamérica: 2020
• PGA TOUR Canada: 2020
• PGA TOUR Canada: 2021