Karl Vilips waited until the last possible moment to trap the last place possible in The players’ championship.
Vilips, a graduate of the University of Stanford, from Indonesia and a current resident of Jacksonville by Perth, in Australia, won the Puerto Rico Open Sunday with a last 64 round at the Grand Reserve Golf Club in Rio Grande, pr
At normal 262, Vilips beaten Rasum Neergaard-Peterson by three shots and obtained a ticket for the course of the players stadium at TPC Sawgrass, where only his fifth start of the PGA Tour will do.
Vilps has fired four of its last six holes and has obtained a first place check for $ 720,000 in the event opposite the Arnold Palmer Invitational. He also picked up 300 Fedex cutting points and went to the 41st in the current classification.
Vilips is also in the PGA 2025 from May 12 to 15 at the Charlotte hollow club and a two -year exemption on the PGA Tour.
“Trying to absorb everything right now … just thinking about next week already, the players, I’m preparing for that,” Vilips said at his press conference after the Tour. “It was the big goal I wanted to reach the players and I knew I had to win this week to do it. It’s just a dream come true to be able to play in this tournament. “”
Karl Vilips strikes Bud Cauley from the players’ field
Vilips, who moved to Jacksonville in November 2025, said that the reflection on the benefits of the victory kept him awake on Saturday evening.
“It was almost the only thing in my mind … Everything that comes with a victory here,” he said. “I had trouble falling asleep. But on the route, he only stayed in the present, do what I can do and I think I have done a very good job because it is difficult not to think of everything. Once I hit this corner at almost 18, these thoughts have definitely started to flow into my head. »»
Ironically, Vilips struck the former resident of Jacksonville Bud Cauley Outside the players’ field. Cauley was the last player to qualify on the basis of the list of points in the Fedex 2025 Cup, but winning a Tour event has a higher priority and Cauley is now the first alternative this week.
Of course, it is on the wrong back to find his place in the field, so Cauley fans in his old home journey, Windsor Parke should not abandon the hope that their guy will make the ground.
Karl Vilips was a rapid study as a pro
Vilips has become the 12th player since 1970 to win a PGA Tour event during his fourth departure or less, a list that includes Arnold Palmer Invertional Vaintin Russell HenleyMember of the World Golf Hall of Fame, Seve Ballesteros, and British Open champion in 1999, Paul Lawrie. The first departure of vilips was as an amateur when he qualified for the US 2023 open.
Vilips is also another success of PGA Tour Universitywhich maintains a system for classifying results in university events, and Tournament Tour and Korn Ferry where university players obtain exemptions. He was 10th in the PGA Tour U ranking of last year, which earned him the conditional status of Korn Ferry.
He took advantage of it. Vilips managed seven top-25 in 10 departures and won the Utah championship, a week after finishing in solo second in the NV5 Invitational. He finished 19th on the last list of Korn ferry points, winning his PGA Tour card for 2025.
Vilips could not start until the opening of Mexico. He equaled the 72nd, then made the field for the open cognizant and tied to the 39th.
Karl Vilips joins the list of international winners
Vilips, fifth of all time on the average list of Stanford’s career, has become the seventh international winner of nine events of the tour this season. He was triple all-PAC 12 player and won the PAC 12 2024 championship.
Vilips should be familiar with the stadium course, although in circumstances very different from those of the players. He achieved five starts in the Junior playerswhich takes place on the weekend of the Labor Day. But he finished among the first 10 each year and improved from year to year. He finished ninth in 2016 when he was 14 years old, tied in the eighth in 2017, was in sixth in 2018, in solo third in 2019 and tied in second row in 2020.
“I’m just excited to sleep in my own bed, to cook my own meals, to be with my roommates. It’s going to be very fun, “he said. “Never really had the chance to do a tournament at home. Obviously, I am just moving there in November, I played a lot of lessons. It looks really good. The last time I played was three weeks ago, so I’m sure it’s now in good shape and I’m really excited. “”
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Karl Vilips won the last place to play players with Puerto Rico Victory
