Philip Knowles

Exempt status

• PGA TOUR: Top 50 from 2022 Korn Ferry Tour (thru 2022-23)
• Korn Ferry Tour: Additional Qualifying Tournament Finishers (thru 2022)

JOINED TOUR

• PGA TOUR Canada: 2019
• Korn Ferry Tour: 2020
• PGA TOUR: 2023

PGA TOUR Canada Victories (1)

2021 Season

• Auburn University Club Invitational

PLAYOFF RECORD

KORN FERRY TOUR (0-1)

• 2022 Lost to MJ Daffue, Will Gordon, Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron

Personal

• Lettered in three sports in high school: golf, baseball and soccer.
• Met his wife, Olivia, when she qualified for the boys golf team in high school; she went on to become a cheerleader at Clemson University from 2013-17.
• Sister-in-law, Mallory Cecil, won the 2009 individual singles national title at the NCAA Championships as a freshman for Duke University's tennis program.
• Has two brothers and three sisters.
• Favorite athletes are Tiger Woods, Tim Tebow, and Roger Federer.
• Favorite bands/musicians include: Needtobreathe, Beautiful Eulogy, Shane and Shane, Mumford and Sons and the Head and the Heart.

Special Interests

Career Highlights

2022 Season

Earned his first PGA TOUR card via the Korn Ferry Tour Finals after he began the season with conditional status. Earned his first start of the season at the LECOM Suncoast Classic, the fifth event of the year, and finished T22 as a sponsor exemption just outside his former hometown of Bradenton, Florida. Recorded his first top-10 of the year in the regular season finale, posting a T10 at the Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Aetna and rising to No. 67 on the Korn Ferry Tour Regular Season Eligibility Points List for a spot in the Korn Ferry Tour Finals. Followed it up with a T2 in the first event of the Korn Ferry Tour Finals, the Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron, to earn his first TOUR card. Added a T17 at the season-ending Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance to finish No. 4 on the Korn Ferry Tour Finals Eligibility Points List.

• Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron: Followed his first career top-10 in the regular season finale, which earned him a place in the Korn Ferry Tour finals, with a T2 in the first Finals event, the Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron. Opened the week with a 10-under 61 and maintained the outright lead through 54 holes, but bogeyed the 72nd hole in regulation after a failed up-and-down attempt from just off the back of the green and fell into a playoff with MJ Daffue and Will Gordon. Four-putted from just off the back of the green and double bogeyed the first playoff hole, which saw Gordon prevail. Still secured his first PGA TOUR card with the T2 finish.
• Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Aetna: Entered the regular season finale at No. 88 on the Regular Season Points List, leaving him 13 spots out of the Korn Ferry Tour Finals, and admitted midway through the week he had two flights booked: one for the first Finals event, one going back home. Held the outright 18-hole lead and shared the 54-hole lead before a final-round even-par 71 left him T10 at 13-under 271 at the Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Aetna.

2021 Season

Won the second tournament of the Forme Tour season then after missing four consecutive cuts secured the seventh-place position on the Points List with solid play in the final two events. Earned conditional 2022 Korn Ferry Tour membership.

• Auburn University Club Invitational: Was superb in Auburn in early July, shooting four rounds in the 60s and playing his final 40 holes without a bogey. Took a one-shot lead into the final round at the Auburn University Club after shooting a Friday 65. Made four birdies and had one hole to play in his final round, knowing he needed to make par at the last to win. Once safely on the par-4 18th green in two shots, calmly rolled in the birdie putt to capture a two-stroke triumph over Clay Feagler. The win moved him at the time to No. 1 on the Points List.

2020 Season

Played the inaugural LOCALiQ Series, appearing in three tournaments and making one cut. Finished the season 149th on the points list.

2019 Season

Had 11 Mackenzie Tour starts, making eight cuts and registering four top-25 finishes. Ended the season No. 53 on the Order of Merit to retain Mackenzie Tour status through the 2020 season.

• Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada Q-School-USA EAST 1: Back-to-back 70s over his final 36 made him one of two University of North Florida golfers to earn status (Travis Trace the other)—fully-exempt for the season’s first half of the season. Finished T9 with two others

Amateur Highlights

• Played collegiately for four seasons at University of North Florida (2015-19), where he was a 2019 All-America Third Team selection and 2018 All-America Honorable Mention. Also named the 2019 Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Year, and was a three-time All-Atlantic Sun First Team selection (2017, 2018, 2019).
• Won three tournaments as a collegian, with his victory at the 2017 Players Amateur earning him an exemption for the PGA TOUR's 2018 RBC Heritage.
• Was the MVP of the Bradenton Christian golf team all four years of high school.

Q SCHOOL GRADUATE

• Korn Ferry Tour: 2019
• PGA TOUR Canada: 2019