Karl Villips set to earn PGA Tour card
Karl Villips – file image USGA
One of the more overlooked Australian golfers in recent times, Karl Villips, is about to join the big time with a PGA Tour card for the 2025 season when he tees it up in this week’s Korn Ferry Tour Championship.
Villips, born in Indonesia but raised in Perth, before spending much of his teenage years in the USA at High School then Standford University, is a former Junior Presidents Cup team member and a winner of the World Junior Championships.
The now 23-year-old began the 2024 Korn ferry season brilliantly with a win and a runner-up finish in his first few starts but his more recent form has been not quite as good although, in 18th position in the Korn Ferry Tour standings, he is assured of one of the 30 2025 cards for next season’s PGA Tour handed out at the completion of this week’s season-ending event.
Villips is an extremely talented golfer with numerous wins as an amateur including wins during his time in college and a victory at the prestigious Southern Amateur Championship.
He will make an interesting addition to the Australian contingent on the PGA Tour next season.
