After finishing No. 20 on the final Korn Ferry Tour Regular Season Eligibility Points List, Sun Devil Kevin Yu earned his PGA TOUR card for the 2022-23 season.
“It’s amazing, it’s a dream come true to me,” said Yu after earning his PGA TOUR card. “I’ve been dreaming of this moment since I was five years old when I just started to play golf. Now it’s a dream come true and I’m looking forward to next season.”
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— Korn Ferry Tour (@KornFerryTour) August 15, 2022
Yu, who went by Chun An Yu while in college and in the World Golf Rankings, celebrated his 23rd birthday this week and joined C.T. Pan as the only other Chinese Taipei player in history to earn a PGA TOUR card via the Korn Ferry Tour. He earned two runners-up and a solo-third this season, his second year on Tour. He contended twice in his first four starts last season, earning status by virtue of a fourth-place ranking in the inaugural PGA TOUR University Class of 2021 following a decorated career at Arizona State University, where his career scoring average of 70.46 was the second-lowest on record, only trailing Jon Rahm. He learned the game at a driving range his father owned in Chinese Taipei.
CHUN AN YU ON SUN DEVIL CAREER CHARTS (GOLFSTAT ERA, 1993-94 TO PRESENT)
70.46 stroke average (second only to 70.21 by Jon Rahm)
103 par or better rounds (second only to 117 by Jon Rahm)
151 rounds (tied for sixth)
.927 scores counted (139 of 151 is third)
586 birdies (second only to 671 by Jon Rahm)
16 eagles (tied for sixth)
3.916 scoring average on par-4 holes in 2018-19 is best in school history in Golfstat era
NOTES/LINKS
–Click here for full list of Korn Ferry Tour graduates.
—ASU coach Matt Thurmond on the bag for Chun An Yu at U.S. Open: ‘You’re my boss’ (by Kent Somers, azcentral.com/Sept. 15, 2020)
—With his coach as his caddie, ASU’s Chun An Yu steady in third U.S. Open appearance (by Michael Gutnick, Cronkite News/Sept. 17, 2020)
—Final Season Begins at the U.S. Open for Taiwan’s Chun An Yu (by Christian Lopez,…
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