Puerto Rico Open Round 4 Notes

Weather: Partly cloudy. High of 86. Wind 7-16 mph, gusting to 20 mph. Preferred lies were in effect in the final round.

Final Leaderboard

Karl Vilips (1^st/-26)

Wins first PGA TOUR title in his fourth career start at the age of 23 years, 6 months, 21 days
Marks new 72-hole tournament scoring record of 262 (previous 267: Nico Echavarria/2023, Chesson Hadley/2014)
Earns 300 FedExCup points and is projected to move from No. 161 to No. 41 in the FedExCup standings
With the win, is fully exempt on TOUR through the 2027 season
With the win, also earns starts in the 2025 PLAYERS Championship and 2025 PGA Championship
Records a final-round 8-under 64 including seven birdies and one eagle against one bogey
Prior to this week, had three career PGA TOUR starts: 2025 Mexico Open at VidantaWorld/T72, 2025 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches/T39, 2023 U.S.Open/MC
Earned 2025 PGA TOUR membership by finishing No. 19 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List; in 10 Korn Ferry Tour starts last year, recorded seven top-25 finishes, highlighted by a win in his fourth start
Turned professional in 2024 after four years at Stanford University; ranks fifth in program history in career scoring average (71.04), only behind Tiger Woods (70.96), Michael Thorbjornsen (70.40), Patrick Rodgers (70.31), Maverick McNealy (70.12)
Ranked No. 10 in the PGA TOUR University Class of 2024

Fewest starts before first PGA TOUR win (since 1970)
1	Jim Benepe (1988 BMW Championship)
2	Garrick Higgo (2021 Palmetto Championship at Congaree)
3	Matt McCarty (2024 Black Desert Championship), Russell Henley (2013 Sony Open in Hawaii), Seve Ballesteros (1978 Wyndham Championship), Bob Gilder (1976 WM Phoenix Open)
4	Karl Vilips (2025 Puerto Rico Open), Nick Dunlap (2024 American Express), Matthew Wolff (2019 3M Open), Garrett Willis (2001 Tucson), Paul Lawrie (1999 The Open Championship), Fred Wadsworth (1986 Southern)

Miscellaneous Notes

In his first start on the PGA TOUR, Denmark’s Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (2^nd/-23) finishes solo-second after carding the low round of the day with a bogey-free 63; tallied nine birdies in the final round, including six straight on Nos. 10-15; earns a start at the Valspar Championship via top-10 finish
Joseph Bramlett (3^rd/-21) records his best finish on TOUR in his 160^th career start (previous best: T7, two times, most recently at 2023 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am); records 72-hole score of 267, tying his career best (2022 Sony Open in Hawaii/finished T20); led the field in Driving Distance (314.7 average)
In his first PGA TOUR start, South African amateur Kieron Van Wyk (T4/-19) records the first top-10 by an amateur on TOUR this season, and the best finish by an amateur on TOUR since the 2024 RSM Classic (Luke Clanton/T2); earned a start in the Valspar Championship; new on the PGA TOUR in 2025, amateurs can top-10 into the next open field event

- A senior at the College of Charleston, earned a start this week by virtue of winning the 2024 White Sands Bahamas Men’s NCAA Golf Invitational; two months ago, won the APGA Farmers Insurance Invitational at Torrey Pines, becoming the first amateur to win on the APGA in the Tour’s 15-year history

PGA TOUR rookies Steven Fisk (T4/-19) and William Mouw (T6/-18) notch their first career top-10 finishes on TOUR
Matti Schmid (T6/-18) led the field this week in total birdies (27) and records his best finish in seven starts this season
Cameron Champ (T16/-15) entered the final round 11 shots off the lead before carding a bogey-free 64; records his first top-25 finish since the 2024 3M Open (T12)
Defending champion Brice Garnett finished T40 at 12-under following rounds of 70-67-68-71.