Blades Brown records runner up finish on Korn Ferry Tour

4/27/2025 | by Justin Golba of AmateurGolf.com

Blades Brown (Tracy Wilcox Photo)

The 17-year-old finished 27-under in his third career start on the KFT and finished three shots back winner Johnny Keefer

Blades Brown continues to impress on the professional golf circuit.

The 17-year-old new professional shot rounds of 61-67-66-63 to finish an incredible 27-under and T2 with Julian Suri, Tyson Alexander, Zach James, and Joshua Creel. Johnny Keefer shot 30-under to win by three shots and secure his first KFT win.

According to Korn Ferry Tour notes, this is the highest finish by a player under 18 in Korn Ferry Tour history (previous: Si Woo Kim, 17 years old/2013 Mid-Atlantic Championship/T11).

He is eligible to compete in next week’s Tulum Championship at PGA Riviera Maya via his top-25 finish. However, he is committed to next week’s PGA TOUR event, THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson, via a sponsor exemption.

Brown earned 167 points this week, bringing his season total to 185.167; he must earn a total of 237.718 points (equivalent to the No. 100 player from the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List) to earn Special Temporary Membership for the remainder of the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour season.

Earlier this year, he shot 5-under with rounds of 70-69 to make the cut at the Korn Ferry Tour's Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf and Athletic Club in Savannah, Ga.

Brown has already made his mark as an amateur and a professional.

In 2023, he became the youngest medalist in U.S. Amateur history at 16, breaking Bobby Jones' 103-year-old record. Brown was nearly two years younger than Jones, who was 18 when he set the record in 1920. Brown shot a course-record 64 at Colorado Golf Club en route to that accomplishment.

A year later, he was the medalist in the U.S. Junior Amateur. Joining Tiger Woods and Bobby Clampett as the only golfer to earn medalist honors in both the U.S. Amateur and U.S. Junior Amateur. To have your name in the record books with Bobby Clampett, Bobby Jones, and Tiger Woods is a good harbinger.

While Brown never broke through to win a USGA event or a major amateur event, he took home three AJGA events, won the Tennessee Jr. by a whopping 12 shots, and made the cut in the only PGA Tour event he played in as an amateur in the 2024 Myrtle Beach Classic.

He also recorded a runner-up finish in the U.S. Four-Ball with Jackson Herrington, along with seven other top-ten finishes in events like the Jones Cup in 2024 (5th place), the Junior Players Championship (2nd), and the Western Amateur (9th).

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