Ryan Gerard (born August 2, 1999) is an American

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who plays on the

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. He won the 2024

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on the

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en route to earning his full card for the

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season. He had previously spent the majority of the 2023 PGA Tour Season on the PGA Tour as a Special Temporary Member.

Amateur career

As a high school student, Gerard attended

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, where he was a four-time NCISAA All-State honoree, and was named TISAC Player of the Year three times and TISAC All-Conference five times, while earning

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All-American honors his senior season. Gerard attended the

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from 2017 to 2022, earning All-America Honors in 2020 and 2022, finishing fourth in school history with a 71.65 career stroke average, and shooting more career rounds (5) of 65 or better, than any other

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Professional career

Gerard turned professional in 2022, competing on

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, where he won the Quebec Open in his fourth start, and finished fifth in the season-long Fortinet Cup standings to earn Korn Ferry status for 2023. However, after only four

starts in

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, he Monday qualified into the PGA Tour's

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and finished fourth, then placed 11th at the next week's

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en route to securing PGA Tour Special Temporary Membership at the

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. Unfortunately, Gerard could not quite retain that form, notching just one further top-25 in 2023 (he made 22 PGA Tour starts overall), and failed to match the top-125 on the FedEx Cup (after the FedEx Cup Fall) required to earn 2024 Tour membership. Despite missing out on earning full PGA Tour status for 2024, Gerard successfully earned a PGA Tour card for 2025 by finishing 12th on the Korn Ferry tour in the 2024 season, registering 12 top-25 finishes, four top-10s and a win at the

, where he shot a 26-under 259, finishing six strokes ahead of runner-up Seth Reeves. In his first full season on the PGA Tour, Gerard made nine of his first ten cuts of

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. During that stretch, he finished in the top-25 five times, with two top-10s, including a runner-up finish at the Valero Texas Open, where he finished three strokes behind tournament-winner Brian Harman. Later on in the season, he earned his first

win at the

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, posting a four-round score of 47 in the tournament's Modified Stableford format.

Amateur wins

*2015 Midwest Junior Players Championship, Polo Golf Junior Classic *2021 Rod Meyers Invitational Sources:

Professional wins (3)

PGA Tour wins (1)

Korn Ferry Tour wins (1)

PGA Tour Canada wins (1)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gerard, Ryan American male golfers PGA Tour golfers Korn Ferry Tour graduates North Carolina Tar Heels men's golfers Golfers from Raleigh, North Carolina Golfers from Jupiter, Florida 1999 births Living people