These 5 golfers earned 2026 PGA Tour cards at Q-School

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Dylan Wu needed extra holes to retain his PGA Tour card for 2026. Wu, a 29-year-old American, two Canadians, a Colombian and an Argentine were the five pros from a field of 176 to survive the 72-hole pressure-cooker that is PGA Tour Qualifying School at Dye's Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass and Sawgrass Country Club.

Wu, with his brother Jeremy on the bag, edged Ben Silverman on the first playoff hole with a 20-foot birdie putt in his return to No. 18 at Dye's Valley.

"It means a lot to do it together," Wu said. "Pressure is a privilege and just so happy it's over. So glad to be on top now."

The top 40 players and ties beyond the top five this week earned guaranteed starts on the 2026 KFT. Here's more on the five pros who booked their ticket to the big leagues, including medalist A.J. Ewart, who grew up the son of a teaching pro. "It's just a testament to dreams do come true if you put in the work and put in the hours," he said.

A.J. Ewart

Ewart, 26, played like a Tour-bound player from start to finish, shooting the low score at Sawgrass CC in the first round, making a hole-in-one on the fifth hole at Dye’s Valley on Friday to share the 36-hole lead, and shooting 67 on Saturday in his return to Sawgrass CC. On Sunday, he was stuck in neutral with a three-putt bogey at nine but carded four birdies on the back nine to post 4-under 66 and go from on the bubble to medalist of the 2025 PGA Tour Q-School.

"I think it was my caddie just said it's a new nine, it's a new round, just kind of reset. I was still in a good spot mentally," Ewart said. "I knew there was still a lot of golf to be played and you're going to be tested. I was tested and I was willing to kind of keep going and battle through it."

Ewart, who won 14 times at Division II Barry University and was the recipient of the 2022 Jack Nicklaus Award as the NCAA Division II Player of the Year, is a native of Vancouver. After playing the past two seasons on PGA Tour Americas, Ewart was making his first start at Final Stage but you’d never know it. He followed a simple philosophy. "It's kind of like the old saying of aim small, miss small. I try to look at any tournament you go out and try to win. I think if you set your standards a little below that, you're going to sell yourself short a little bit," he said.

Marcelo Rozo

The Colombian native pumped his fist as he wrapped up a final-round 69 to finish T-2 at 12-under 268. The 36-year-old Rozo, who turned pro in 2012 and was sidelined for a season after undergoing wrist surgery, had made 255 career Tour-sanctioned starts but had never held a PGA Tour card. Standing on the 18th tee, knowing he needed a par at the last to do so, he said, "I could feel my heart pumping pretty good."

Rozo, who shared the 54-hole lead, stayed in a rental unit with fellow Colombian Camilo Villegas, a five-time Tour winner. Shortly before 7 a.m., as Rozo was stretching, Villegas, who would come up one shot short of the playoff, passed along the type of advice that only comes from someone who has been there, done that.

"He came down and just told me, 'Hey, you're going to feel it's going to get away from you at some point. For sure it's going to happen. Just know that you've just got to keep fighting until the end, hitting one shot at a time,' " Rozo recalled. "He told me, 'Just keep your head in it. It's going to get tough, but you're up for the challenge.' "

Rozo tried to pump himself up, even writing in the steam of his shower, "PGA Tour member '26," he said. Stll, Rozo admitted that he cried before driving to the course in the morning. He stated slowly, making two bogeys on the front nine. He didn't make his first birdie until No. 10 but managed to tack on two more to earn his card on the PGA Tour.

"it was my day and I was built for this," he said. "I've worked my entire life for this moment."

Alejandro Tosti

The 29-year-old Argentine did it again. He sank a bomb for eagle at the par-5 16th to shoot 3-under 67 and seal the deal of regaining a PGA Tour card for next season. Tosti made his move on Saturday with birdies on five of his first seven holes to surge up the leaderboard. He entered the final day one off the pace for a Tour card at 9-under 201 and T-6. The former Florida Gator earned his Tour card at Q-School last year but missed his last six cuts of the regular season and didn’t play in the fall, dropping to No. 137 in the season-long standings.

"You just never know in this game and to get (my Tour card) back after a rough year is special," he said.

Adam Svensson

The 31-year-old Canadian opened his final round Sunday with six straight pars, which didn't bode well for his chances of regaining his PGA Tour card. But he remained patient and reeled off four birdies in a six-hole stretch beginning at No. 7. He tacked on one last birdie at 15 to shoot 4-under 66 and finish 12-under 268 and T-2.

"It was just a lot of perseverance," said Svensson, who had to make a 7-foot putt at the last to secure his card. "That last putt I was shaking. I still am."

A past champion of the Tour’s RSM Classic, Svensson struggled this season, finishing No. 167 in the season-long standings and without a top-10 finish. He has maintained PGA Tour status the past four seasons and qualified for the FedEx Cup playoffs in both 2022 and 2023, highlighted by a No. 37 finish in 2023, the same season he earned his first Tour title at the 2022 RSM Classic But now the fellow Barry University grad, just like the medalist Ewart, is headed back to the Tour for another season.

Dylan Wu

Wu picked a good time to find his game. The 29-year-old from Northwestern University finished 168^th in the season-long standings and had four missed cuts and a DQ in his last six starts on Tour. But he birdied five of his first eight holes on Sunday and sank a long eagle putt at 16 to shoot 66 and finish T-5 at 11-under 269. He and Ben Silverman returned to 18 for a playoff for all the marbles, and after Silverman missed from 35 feet, it was Wu who put a new putter in the bag this week, who delivered the birdie to seal the deal.

Wu earned PGA Tour status for the first time with a top 25 finish on the 2020-21 Korn Ferry Tour points list off the strength of his victory at the 2021 Price Cutter Charity Championship. He already entered Final Stage with full status for the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour after a No. 69 finish on the 2025 points list. He had nothing to lose; now he has everything to gain.