Joe Highsmith entered a rare club of PGA Tour winners accomplishing a feat at the 2025 Cognizant Classic that had not been seen in nearly a decade.

Winning on the PGA Tour comes with tremendous perks. You receive a 7-figure check and are guaranteed playing status for two more years. Perhaps more significantly, PGA Tour winners receive invites to Augusta National and the PGA Championship,

Highsmith is the first player since Brandt Snedeker at the 2016 Farmers Insurance Open to make a cut on the number and go onto win a tournament. It's the ninth time such a comeback has occurred on the PGA Tour in the last 50 years.