Corey Conners

Conners was raised in Listowel, Ontario. He won the 2010 Ontario Amateur and was runner-up to Gunn Yang at the 2014 U.S. Amateur, losing 2 & 1 in the 36-hole final. He was the first player in three years to advance to at least the semifinal round in consecutive years.
After graduating from Kent State in June 2014, Conners was planning to turn professional in the fall, but when he made it to the final of the U.S. Amateur, all those plans changed. With it came invitations to play the Masters and the U.S. Open, so he put his professional goals on hold. He eventually turned professional after missing the cut at the 2015 Masters.
Conners won the Jones Cup in 2014. He was runner-up at the 2013 and 2014 North and South Amateur Championships and T-4th at the 2014 Canadian Amateur. Early in 2015, he won the Lake Macquarie Championship and was a quarterfinalist at the 2015 Australian Amateur.
2015 Notes: Played on the Mackenzie Tour Canada. In eight events, he made six cuts. His best finish was 3rd at the Staal Foundation Open. He finished 37th on that tour's money list. At the end of the year, he played four events on the PGA Tour Latinoamerica, with his best finish a T-3rd at America's Golf Cup. He also played four events as a professional on the PGA Tour, missing the cut at RBC Heritage, Wells Fargo, FedEx St. Jude, and RBC Canadian Open.
2016 Notes: Played 17 events on the PGA Tour Latinoamerica, won the PTLA Qualifying event, and had a pair of runner-up finishes at the Guatemala Open and 63 Abierto Do Brasil. He finished the year with eight top-10 finishes and 6th on the money list. They also played on the Mackenzie Tour Canada in six events. His only top-10 was a 2nd at the Staal Foundation Open. Conners was 24th on that tour's final Order of Merit. At the end of the year, he went to Korn Ferry Tour Q-School and finished T-42nd, earning his card for 2017.
2017 Korn Ferry Tour Summary: Tournaments Entered - 23; Rounds Played - 77; In Money - 16; Top-10 Finishes - 3; Scoring Average - 69.79 (rank 19th); Regular-Season Money - $95,769 (rank 49th); Playoff Money - $45,114 (rank 26th); Priority Rank - 41st; Best Finish - T-5th, Bahamas Great Exuma. Secured his PGA Tour card for the 2017-18 season with a 20th-place finish on the 2017 Korn Ferry Tour Finals money list (excluding the 25).
2018 Notes: Played 28 PGA Tour events, making 20 cuts with one top-10 finish. He finished 130th in the FedExCup standings. Because of that ranking, he had to go to the Korn Ferry Tour playoffs, where he was T-24th at the Nationwide Children's and T-33rd at the Albertsons Boise Open. He didn't play well enough to secure his PGA Tour card but had limited status because he was between 126 and 150 on the FedExCup point list.
2019 Notes: Played in 28 PGA Tour events, making 16 cuts and finishing four times in the top 10. After missing the cut at the Safeway Open, he finished 2nd at the Sanderson Farms Championship, four strokes behind winner Cameron Champ. Was T-3rd at the Sony Open in Hawaii, five strokes behind winner Matt Kuchar. Conners had to Monday-qualify to get into the event. Conners also had to qualify for the Valero Texas Open in the Monday qualifier and do it in a playoff. There were six players for just one spot, and Conners survived. He then went out and did something only four other players had done since 1980 -- Monday-qualify and win. The last player to go from a Monday qualifier to the victory circle was Arjun Atwal at the 2010 Wyndham Championship. Conners was 20-under par for the week to win by two shots over Charley Hoffman. He became the 15th Canadian to win on the PGA Tour. With the victory, he got the last spot into the Masters, where he finished T-46th. He also played in the PGA Championship, finishing T-64th, and missed the cut at the British Open. Qualified for the FedExCup playoffs and made it to the Tour Championship, finishing 26th in the final FedExCup standings. He had a T-7th finish at the BMW Championship.
2020 Notes: Played in 22 PGA Tour events, making 15 cuts with one top-10 finish. They did have 10 top-25 finishes while finishing 53rd in the FedExCup standings. His best finish was T-6th at the Zozo Championship, eight strokes behind winner Tiger Woods. After the break for COVID-19, his best finish was T-19th at the Charles Schwab Challenge. In the FedExCup playoffs, they finished T-25th at the Northern Trust and T-33rd at the BMW Championship.
2021 Notes: Played in 29 PGA Tour events, making 19 cuts with eight top-10 finishes. He was 22nd in the FedExCup standings. Was T-8th at the Zozo Championship@Sherwood. In back-to-back weeks was T-10th at the 2020 Masters and RSM Classic. He was 3rd at the Arnold Palmer Invitational after holding a share of the 18-hole lead and outright 36-hole lead. He was a shot out of the lead going into the final round, shot 74, and finished three shots back of the winner Bryson DeChambeau. Shot final-round 66 to finish 7th at the Players Championship. He was T-8th at the 2021 Masters and was one of four players to finish in the top 10 in both Masters played in the 2021 PGA Tour season. He was T-4th at the RBC Heritage, six shots back of winner Stewart Cink. Represented Canada at the Tokyo Olympic Games, finishing 13th. In the FedExCup Playoffs was T-8th at the Northern Trust and T22nd at the BMW Championship and Tour Championship.
2022 Notes: Played in 25 PGA Tour events, making 20 cuts with four top-10 finishes. He was 26th in the FedExCup standings. He was 11th at the Sony Open in Hawaii and T-11th at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. He finished 3rd at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, emerging from a group of Louis Oosthuizen, Alex Noren, and Paul Casey, defeating Takumi Kanaya in the Round of 16 and Abraham Ancer in the quarterfinals, losing to Kevin Kisner in the semifinals and defeating Dustin Johnson in the consolation match. Shot 70 in the final round to finish T-6th at the Masters, seven shots back of winner Scottie Scheffler. Shot a final-round 62 at the RBC Canadian Open to finish 6th, seven shots back of winner Rory McIlroy. In the FedExCup playoffs was T-28th at the FedExCup, T-5th at the BMW Championship, and 26th in the Tour Championship. He played in his first Presidents Cup but lost in all four matches he played in. He lost to Xander Schauffele in the singles, 1 up.
2023 Notes: Played in 25 PGA Tour events, making 20 cuts with five top-10 finishes. He was 26th in the FedExCup standings. Won the Valero Texas Open by a shot over Sam Stevens. Conners pick up his second PGA Tour win in his 153rd start at 31 years, 2 months, 27 days. Conners becomes the 10th multiple winner of the Valero Texas Open. Conners is the first player since K.H. Lee (2021, 2022 AT&T Byron Nelson) to record his first two PGA Tour victories at the same event. He finished T-8th at the Wells Fargo Championship and T-9th at the Travelers Championship. In the FedEx Cup playoffs was T-6th at the FedEx St. Jude, T-10th at the BMW Championship and 26th at the Tour Championship.
2024 Notes: T-13th at the Players Championship.