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,

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.

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.