Ryan Fox Wins First Pga Tour Event, Earns A Spot In 2025 Pga Championship

It was the PGA Tour's opposite-field event this week opposite the signature event, the Truist Championship, but there was still tons to play for at the 2025 Oneflight Myrtle Beach Classic.

The winner of the event would earn a two-year PGA Tour exemption. That's huge. Also, first place at Dunes Golf and Beach Club in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, is good for $720,000. That's nice. But the extra bonus was a spot in the 2025 PGA Championship, if he was not already in the field.

That made the final round at Myrtle Beach a tournament within a tournament for guys like Harry Higgs, Alex Smalley, Victor Perez, Ryan Fox, Hayden Buckley and Mark Hubbard, among others, who were not yet in the field for the PGA but who found themselves in the thick of Sunday's final-round action.

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Mackenzie Hughes, already in the PGA field, bogeyed the final hole, the par-4 18th, after missing a 10-foot par putt, while Higgs and Fox each made their pars. That set up a sudden-death playoff between those three players, two of them needing the win for the PGA Championship tee time.

Hughes was the only one of the three who had ever been in a PGA Tour playoff, and he sported a 2-0 record, but on this day, he would take his first playoff loss, as would Higgs, when Fox birdied the 18th hole to clinch his first victory and a spot in the 2025 PGA Championship.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Ryan Fox wins Myrtle Beach Classic, earns 2025 PGA Championship invite