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.