{"id":681054,"date":"2026-06-03T02:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/681054\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T02:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:45:14","slug":"blades-brown-19-becomes-a-pga-tour-special-temporary-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/681054\/","title":{"rendered":"Blades Brown, 19, becomes a PGA Tour special temporary member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blades Brown, the 19-year-old who turned pro before leaving high school, made it official by accepting special temporary membership on the PGA Tour. That allows unlimited sponsor exemptions the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/pga-tour\/news\/decision-time-as-blades-brown-19-earns-special-temporary-status-on-pga-tour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brown earned enough points for that privilege with a tie for 14th in The CJ Cup Byron Nelson.<\/a> He then headed back to the Korn Ferry Tour, where he tied for 13th last week to move to No. 11 on the points list.<\/p>\n<p>The top 20 on the Korn Ferry Tour earn PGA Tour cards. Brown also would have to finish equal to 70th place on last year\u2019s FedEx Cup to get a card.<\/p>\n<p>He is back on the Korn Ferry this week at the BMW Charity Pro-Am in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Brown could become the youngest player to get a PGA Tour card, breaking the record of Jason Day, who was eight days short of his 20th birthday when he got a card in October 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blades Brown, the 19-year-old who turned pro before leaving high school, made it official by accepting special temporary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-681054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}