Chris Gotterup, the pride of Little Silver, New Jersey and Rutgers University, has announced his arrival on the world stage. An overnight sensation a quarter century in the making, his name is now plastered across sports pages and websites throughout America and the UK. It’s not a stretch to say that Gotterup might be on a path to becoming a household name alongside the likes of Scottie Scheffler and Rory McElroy.
In a blur of consecutive PGA Tour events contested in Europe in July, Gotterup transformed himself from virtual unknown to international fame. The Rutgers graduate, former All-American and golf’s national collegiate player of the year quickly became the talk of the entire golfing community. In the ensuing weeks, he has gone on to qualify for the final and most prestigious of the three-tournament Fedex Cup Series – the 30-man, season-ending Tour Championship, to be contested Aug. 21-24 at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia.
He’s charting a supersonic trajectory, one that with a victory or a high finish this week may carry the freakishly-long Gotterup to inclusion on the 12-man U.S. team in the upcoming 2025 Ryder Cup Matches at Long Island’s Bethpage Black in September.
On July 14, Gotterup found himself competing alongside McElroy, a proud Irishman and international icon, recent Grand Slam champion, and a hero to all of Europe’s sporting public. In Sunday’s final round, Gotterup not only stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the world’s No. 2-ranked player, he beat him and the rest of the field in securing the Genesis Scottish Open Championship. With a throng of fans openly rooting against him and for Rory, Gotterup withstood the test, finishing at 15-under par, two strokes ahead of McIlroy and Marco Penge.
The Jersey Shore product then carried that momentum over to the following week at The Open Championship, at Northern Ireland’s Royal Portrush Golf Club, where he finished in third place, five strokes behind the champion, Scheffler.
Gotterup now enters the Tour Championship with an Official World Golf Ranking of 27 (he was ranked No. 158 heading into the Scottish Open), and has eclipsed the 4-million dollar mark for the season, good for 31st on the PGA Tour. The Tour Championship carries with it a $40 million purse, with the winner set to take home a cool $10 million. Gotterup, whose first PGA Tour win came at the 2024…
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