For the first time in his young career, Kevin Yu has found his way into the winner's circle on the PGA Tour. Chasing down the final pairing and setting the clubhouse lead at 23 under, Yu defeated Beau Hossler on the first playoff hole with a birdie to claim the 2024 Sanderson Farms Championship. With the win, Yu secures his playing privileges on the PGA Tour for the next two years and earns invitations into the 2025 Sentry, Masters and PGA Championship.
He climbs all the way up to No. 60 in the FedEx Cup standings and now finds himself on the inside track to finish in the top 60 which would grant him access to the first two signature events of 2025 — the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the Genesis Invitational. "I'm excited inside my mind but I'm trying to be as calm as possible from outside," Yu said.
"Just really I feel like I took a little break from last month, really helped me. I feel like I was playing great and just mentally I was just kind of tired, frustrated, and just feel like momentum couldn't going anywhere in the last maybe six months. "Then today out there I was trying to do my best on everything and trying to -- I set a goal today if I can shoot 5-, 6-under I have a chance, and today I focused on that.
Try to do the best I can out there and try to do every shot the best I could have done out there. I did a pretty good job out there today." Yu began the final round at The Country Club of Jackson two strokes off the pace set by 54-hole leader Keith Mitchell.
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