PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida – Korn Ferry Tour winners Paul Peterson, Thomas Rosenmueller and Isaiah Salinda are headed to the PGA TOUR for the first time next year, as all three achieved #TOURBound status and earned TOUR membership for the 2025 season following Sunday’s Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation.
Through 24 of this season’s 26 scheduled events, the trio stands at No. 15 (Peterson), No. 16 (Rosenmueller), and No. 17 (Salinda) on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, with each having earned more than 1,040 points. There were 16 players who finished with more than 1,040 points on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour Points List.
Peterson earned his first Korn Ferry Tour victory at last week’s Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation, climbing from No. 51 to No. 15 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points to secure a TOUR card.
A 36-year-old resident of St. Simons Island, Georgia, Peterson turned professional out of Oregon State University in 2012 and played predominantly on international tours prior to the 2023 season. Peterson boasts two international victories, as he won the 2016 D+D Real Czech Masters on the DP World Tour, and the 2018 Myanmar Open, an event co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and Japan Golf Tour.
Peterson earned Korn Ferry Tour membership for the first time via a T8 finish at Final Stage of the 2022 Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament (now known as PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry). As a rookie in 2023, Peterson finished No. 61 on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List, which earned him fully exempt status for 2024.
In two career starts on the PGA TOUR, Peterson has finishes of T29 (2015 CIMB Classic) and T36 (2019 Wyndham Championship).
Rosenmueller earned his first TOUR card in what was his third consecutive season on the Korn Ferry Tour; he becomes the fourth player from Germany to earn TOUR membership via the Korn Ferry Tour, joining Alex Cejka (2014, 2017), Stephan Jaeger (2017, 2018, 2020-21), and Matti Schmid (2022).
Playing from Ismaning, Germany, Rosenmueller turned professional in 2019 after four seasons at University of North Texas. Rosenmueller won three times on the Pro Golf Tour and finished No. 1 on its 2020 Order of Merit, earning Challenge Tour membership for 2021.
Rosenmueller earned Korn Ferry Tour membership for the first time via a T11 finish at Final Stage of the 2021 Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament. After a No. 158 finish on the 2022 Korn Ferry Tour Points List as a rookie, Rosenmueller returned to Q-School and regained membership with a solo-fifth finish. Rosenmueller finished No. 67 on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, earning him fully exempt status for the 2024 season.
Rosenmueller’s win at the 2024 NV5 Invitational presented by Old National Bank, which he followed with back-to-back T5 finishes, propelled him to a PGA TOUR card. He has yet to make his first start on TOUR.
Salinda earned his first PGA TOUR card in what was his second season on the Korn Ferry Tour.
A native of San Francisco, California, Salinda played four seasons at Stanford University, where he helped the Cardinal win the team national title at the 2019 NCAA Championship, marking the program’s first national title since 2007. Salinda turned professional in 2019 and played two seasons on PGA TOUR Canada (2021, 2022) before he earned Korn Ferry Tour membership.
With only conditional status, Salinda finished No. 80 on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour Points List as a rookie. Salinda’s T21 finish at Final Stage of 2023 PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry last December earned him guaranteed starts for the first 12 events of the 2024 season, though he missed the first two as he recovered from an appendectomy.
Salinda won his first start of 2024, rolling to an eight-stroke victory at The Panama Championship, the third event of the Korn Ferry Tour season. Salinda’s win tied the fourth-largest margin of victory in Korn Ferry Tour history, and it marked the first win of eight-plus strokes on Tour since 2017.
Salinda has 11 career starts on the PGA TOUR, with his career-high finish being a T7 at the 2023 Shriners Children’s Open as an open qualifier.
There are 17 players declared #TOURBound, including 12 players who will be PGA TOUR rookies in 2025: No. 1 Matt McCarty, No. 3 Tim Widing, No. 4 Steven Fisk, No. 5 Taylor Dickson, No. 9 Quade Cummins, No. 10 Cristobal Del Solar, No. 12 Kevin Velo, No. 13 William Mouw, No. 14 Frankie Capan III, No. 15 Paul Peterson, No. 16 Thomas Rosenmueller, No. 17 Isaiah Salinda.
The top 30 players on the final 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List will earn PGA TOUR membership for the 2025 season, while the player who finishes No. 1 earns fully exempt membership and exemptions for the 2025 PLAYERS Championship and 2025 U.S. Open.
The finalization of the points list and awarding of 30 PGA TOUR cards will take place upon conclusion of the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance, scheduled for October 3-6 at French Lick Golf Resort in French Lick, Indiana.
The 2024 Korn Ferry Tour season continues this week with the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship, the 25th of 26 scheduled tournaments, and the third of four season-ending Korn Ferry Tour Finals events.
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