Karl Vilips (born 16 August 2001) is an Australian

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and

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player. He won the 2025

Puerto Rico Open The Puerto Rico Open is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour that was first played in 2008. It is the only PGA Tour event held in Puerto Rico to date. The tournament is played at the Coco Beach Golf Course (previously Trump Internation ...

Amateur career

Vilips played for the international team at the 2017 Junior Presidents Cup. He represented Australia at the

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in Buenos Aires together with Grace Kim, and won the boy's individual gold. Individually, he won the 2017

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and was runner-up at the 2019

Rolex Tournament of Champions The AJGA Tournament of Champions, known currently as the Rolex Tournament of Champions for sponsorship reasons, is a leading annual junior golf tournament in the United States for amateur golfers under the age of 19. Format The tournament is th ...

, the 2020 Junior Players Championship and the 2023

North and South Amateur The North and South Men's Amateur Golf Championship, commonly known as the North and South Amateur, is an annual golf tournament held since 1901 at the Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, North Carolina, US. An invitational tournament, participants ar ...

. Vilips attended

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between 2021 and 2024, and played with the Stanford Cardinal men's golf team. He was named to the 2021 All-

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Newcomer Team and 2023

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honorable mention. He won the Pac-12 Championship as a senior.

Professional career

Vilips turned professional after graduating in 2024 and joined the

Korn Ferry Tour The Korn Ferry Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either not yet reached the PGA Tour, or who have done so but then failed to win enough FedEx Cup points to stay at that level. ...

, where he was runner-up at the NV5 Invitational and won the

Utah Championship The Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank and Intermountain Health is a professional golf tournament on the Korn Ferry Tour, played at Oakridge Country Club in Farmington, Utah. One of the original tournaments of the 1990 Ben Hogan Tour ...

. He was named as the Korn Ferry Tour Rookie of the Year for the 2024 season. Vilips finished 19th in the rankings to graduate to the 2025

. In his rookie PGA Tour season he won the

, three strokes ahead of

Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (born 3 July 1999) is a Danish professional golfer. In 2024, he won three times on the Challenge Tour and topped the rankings. Amateur career Neergaard-Petersen had a successful amateur career and won the 2017 Danish Ju ...

, in only his fourth start.

Amateur wins

*2016 Junior Orange Bowl International *2017 Polo Golf Junior Classic,

*2018 Wyndham Invitational *2024 Pac-12 Championship Source:

Professional wins (2)

PGA Tour wins (1)

Korn Ferry Tour wins (1)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut

Results in The Players Championship

CUT = missed the half-way cut

Team appearances

Amateur * Junior Presidents Cup (representing the International team): 2017 *

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mixed team (representing Australia):

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vilips, Karl Australian male golfers PGA Tour golfers Korn Ferry Tour graduates Stanford Cardinal men's golfers Golfers at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Youth Olympic gold medalists for Australia Golfers from Perth, Western Australia Sportspeople from Jakarta 2001 births Living people 21st-century Australian sportsmen