Winking a PGA Tour card is an extremely difficult task. But keeping it is not even a cake walk. Still harder? Winning your card after you lost it. Three PGA Tour veterans proved that the difficult road on Sunday at the Korn Ferry Tour championship, where they simply lost to restore their tour privileges.
Following changes in the qualification rules in recent years, only 20 Finishers Top in the Korn Championship Ferry Tour Championship won the PGA Tour cards for the 2026 season. You can Read all about a little lucky to punch their tour tickets on Sunday.
But in this space we are concerned with the other side of the equation, players who lived the life of a PGA Tour Pro, fought all year at Korn Ferry Tour to return and came out with short sovereignty.
Silver lining for these three pros? They all ended up high enough in Korn Ferry’s ranking to gain full status there in 2026, where they will mount new campaigns to recover their cards.
PGA Tour Pro who lost cards in KFT Championship
Justin Suh
Justin SuhA 28-year-old former PGA Tour from San Jose has played in 90 events PGA Tour in his pro golf career, winning two Top-5 and five Top-10 conclusions.
Suh played the full season of 29 tour events in 2024. But he made only 12 cuts and failed to record any 10. As a result, he completed 162 in the FedEx Cup rankings to lose his privileges of the game and enter the Korn Ferry tour again.
At the Korn Ferry tour this season, he won Argentina Open in March and collected two more. But it was not enough to move back to the big leagues.
Entering the Tour championship of Korn Ferry on the 24th in the standings, just outside the 20 best who win cards, Suh completed T31 to stay closely close, but, after all, regardless of his card.
Russell Knox
A 40-year-old Scotto, Russell Knox Successfully played at PGA Tour for several years, winning two wins at the WGC-HSBC 2015 Championship and the 2016 Travele Championship.
But his last full season was 2022-23, when he made 23 of the 37 cuts to finish 144 in the FedEx Cup rankings and lose his tour card.
He played in 10 tour events in 2024 and then received three sponsorship invitations in 2025, losing two cuts and ending 68th in the Corales Puntacana Championship.
Knox made 21 Korn Ferry Tour begins in 2025, winning a racing at the beginning of the season in Bahamas Great Abco Classic along with the other three.
But a disappointing T55 conclusion at the Korn Ferry Tour championship on Sunday threw knox from 34 to 36th placen the final ranking of KFTleaving him 16 drops less than recovering his PGA Tour card.
Dylan Wu
Twenty -nine year old Oregon locals Dylan Wu Must be known to many golf fans. He played 33 PGA Tour events in 2022-23, ending 86th in the rankings to store his card.
But on the 28th in 2024, Wu reached only one Top 10 and fell to 119 in the FedEx Cup rankings, losing its tour card in the process. Although he entered 13 events tournament this last season and recorded some good conclusions, he only received enough points to finish the 170th in the rankings.
He played only eight events at the Korn Ferry tournament in 2025, so a T31-Finish could only improve its position from 71 to 69, very few of the tournament cutting.
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