Fulfilled a four-year term on active duty before leaving the Air Force in May 2014 to pursue a career in professional golf.

As an Air Force officer he was a nuclear missile operator between 2010 and 2014.

Enjoys woodworking and working on do-it-yourself projects around the house.

Supports various military organizations including Folds of Honor and PGA HOPE.

His wife, Jess, is a Major in the Air Force Reserve, and his brother was a Major in the Air Force.

In 2015, he left his wife in the hospital while she was in the early stages labor to play in a playoff for the U.S. Open Local Qualifier (the course was minutes from the hospital). After a bogey on the first hole, he immediately left the course to go to the hospital. To this day, he tells people she cost me the 2015 U.S. Open.

Supports Dallas-based non-profit One Tribe Foundation in honor of his older brother, Bob, a former United States Air Force major. Tom lost Bob to suicide in 2020, and One Tribe Foundation raises awareness for suicide prevention among veterans.

Played college golf while at the United States Air Force Academy, where he had four individual wins and was named twice an All-American Scholar.