Aldrich Potgieter received the Rocket Traditional on Sunday night time. He’s South African, 20 years outdated and his profession is clearly on the rise, though he nonetheless lacks some consistency. He has already been within the struggle to win elite tournaments and his identify is already a part of the brief record of gamers who’ve received on the PGA Tour earlier than the age of 21 and who usually are not American: Seve Ballesteros, Rory McIlroy, Joaquin Niemann, Tom Kim and now additionally Aldrich Potgieter.
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The younger expertise required 77 holes to win in Detroit. He competed in a playoff with Max Greyserman and Chris Kirk, going to the fifth gap with the previous. The South African holed from 5 meters to say his first large league victory. The youngest golfer on all the tour received. Actually, Potgieter was the youngest winner in Korn Ferry Tour historical past; he was additionally a profitable beginner – he received the British, amongst different necessary tournaments – and can be at the moment the number one in driving distance on the PGA (he reached 316 km/h with the driving force in his palms).
Youngest winners on the PGA Tour
- Charles Kocsis (1931) – Michigan Open: 18 years, 6 months, 9 days
- Harry Cooper (1923) – Galveston Open Championship: 19 years, 4 days
- Ralph Guldahl (1931) – Santa Monica Open: 19 years, 2 months, 3 days
- John McDermott (1911) – U.S. Open: 19 years, 10 months, 14 days
This season he had 5 wins, going into Sunday with possibilities, ranked within the prime 5. He couldn’t certify victories and the fourth spherical turned his wall. This time he began the day two strokes forward and the day went on longer than he would have appreciated. The South African even admitted that it was good for him to lose the lead on the seventh gap: “There was a change that flicked once I misplaced the lead. I felt like I may chase one thing. I needed to get out of the emotions I had on these first few holes and get into that chase mode that allowed me to play totally different golf,” he confessed.
Youngest winners on the PGA Tour since 1983
- Jordan Spieth (2013) – John Deere Traditional: 19 years, 11 months, 17 days
- Nick Dunlap (a) (2024) – American Specific: 20 years, 29 days
- Tom Kim (2022) – Wyndham Championship: 20 years, 1 month, 17 days
- Matthew Wolff (2019) – 3M Open: 20 years, 2 months, 23 days
- Tom Kim (2022) – Shriners Youngsters’s Open: 20 years, 3 months, 18 days
- Nick Dunlap (2024) – Barracuda Championship: 20 years, 6 months, 28 days
- Phil Mickelson (a) (1991) – Northern Telecom Open: 20 years, 6 months, 28 days
- Tiger Woods (1996) – Shriners Youngsters’s Open: 20 years, 9 months, 6 days
- Aldrich Potgieter (2025) – Rocket Traditional: 20 years, 9 months, 16 days
- Tiger Woods (1996) – Oldsmobile Traditional: 20 years, 9 months, 20 days
Potgieter turned the youngest South African to win on the PGA Tour, an honor held by Garrick Higgo, however extra importantly, expertise, dedication and success lastly got here collectively to take one other step up the ladder. He has simply moved as much as forty ninth on this planet rankings on the age of 20.
