The first PGA Tour University ranking for the Class of 2026 is out.<\/p>\n
Virginia\u2019s Ben James debuts at No. 1, followed by Texas\u2019 Christiaan Maas, Ole Miss\u2019 Michael La Sasso, Texas\u2019 Tommy Morrison and Oklahoma\u2019s Jase Summy.<\/p>\n
The ranking takes into account players\u2019 results from NCAA Division-I tournaments, official PGA Tour events and select DP World Tour events, starting the week after the 2024 NCAA Championship and through next spring\u2019s NCAA Championship.<\/p>\n
The top-ranked player following NCAAs will receive full PGA Tour membership for the remainder of the 2026 season through the 2027 season. Nos. 2-10 get Korn Ferry Tour status for 2026, with Nos. 2-5 also being exempt into the final stage of Q-School at the end of the year. Nos. 6-25 are exempt into second stage, while Nos. 11-25 receive PGA Tour Americas status for 2026.<\/p>\n
Here are the top 25 players in the first ranking:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first PGA Tour University ranking for the Class of 2026 is out. Virginia\u2019s Ben James debuts at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-18156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}