It comes as a surprise that Viktor Hovland was not the first Norweigan from Oklahoma State to earn a PGA Tour card this year.
It was 2018 National Championship member Kristoffer Ventura, who won his second Korn Ferry Tour title at Pinnacle Bank Championship on July 21, which granted him a PGA Tour card for next season.
It’s easy to get rapt in the budding superstars like OSU’s own Hovland and Matthew Wolff, who are seamlessly finding success on the PGA not even two months after their last college event. But, the twenty-four year old Ventura, as well as many other Tour members, took a longer route to the top through golf’s rigorous minor league tours.