Ryan Gerard

Ryan Gerard (born August 2, 1999) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He won the 2024 BMW Charity Pro-Am on the Korn Ferry Tour en route to earning his full card for the 2025 PGA Tour 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 Ravenscroft School, 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 American Junior Golf Association All-American honors his senior season.

Gerard attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 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 Tar Heel.

Professional career Gerard turned professional in 2022, competing on PGA Tour Canada, 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 Korn Ferry Tour starts in 2023, he Monday qualified into the PGA Tour's Honda Classic and finished fourth, then placed 11th at the next week's Puerto Rico Open en route to securing PGA Tour Special Temporary Membership at the Valero Texas Open. 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. Later on in the season, he earned his first PGA Tour win at the Barracuda Championship, posting a four-round score of 47 in the tournament's Modified Stableford format. In December, Gerard was ranked 57th in the Official World Golf Ranking heading into the final tournament week of the year. He opted to play in the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open, needing a top-four finish to reach the top-50 in the OWGR and secure an invitation to the 2026 Masters Tournament. Gerard finished runner-up in the event, losing in a playoff to Jayden Schaper.

Amateur wins 2015 Midwest Junior Players Championship, Polo Golf Junior Classic 2021 Rod Meyers Invitational

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Professional wins (3) PGA Tour wins (1) 1Co-sanctioned by the European Tour

PGA Tour playoff record (0–1) No.YearTournamentOpponentResult12026Memorial Tournament J. T. PostonLost to par on second extra hole

European Tour wins (1) 1Co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour

European Tour playoff record (0–1)

Korn Ferry Tour wins (1)

PGA Tour Canada wins (1)

Results in major championships

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

Summary Most consecutive cuts made – 5 (2023 U.S. Open – 2026 PGA Championship) Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (twice, current)