CALEDON, Ontario, Canada – Former Vanderbilt men’s golf All-American Gordon Sargent made his professional PGA TOUR debut Thursday morning in The Great White North, as he teed off Round 1 at the RBC Canadian Open in Caledon, Ontario, Canada.
It is Sargent’s first professional event as a PGA TOUR member. He joins the highest professional touring circuit in golf nearly a year and seven months after becoming the first person to earn a TOUR card via the PGA TOUR University Accelerated program. Sargent is eligible for open, full-field events for the remainder of the 2025 season, and he will also be a PGA TOUR member for the 2026 season (subject to reshuffles).
Sargent opened Round 1 of the RBC Canadian Open at 7:35 a.m. CT on Thursday. He tees off Round 2 on Friday at 6:07 a.m. CT. Sargent is one of five Commodores competing at the RBC Canadian Open this week, joining former teammate Matthew Riedel and PGA TOUR veterans Brandt Snedeker, Luke List and Will Gordon.
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The Birmingham, Alabama, native played in six PGA TOUR events as an amateur, which include the 2023 Masters Tournament, the 123rd and 124th U.S. Open and the 152nd British Open Championship. At the 123rd U.S. Open, Sargent was the low amateur with a four-round total of 4-over 824.
Sargent became the first Vanderbilt men’s golfer to win an individual national championship, as he earned medalist honors as a freshman at the 2022 NCAA Men’s Golf Championships. As a sophomore in 2022-23, he was named the Mark H. McCormack Medal winner and was Golfweek’s National Collegiate Player of the Year. Sargent was a six-time All-American during his four seasons at Vanderbilt, earning first-team honors three times each from the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) and Golfweek. The 2022-23 SEC Golfer of the Year won a Vanderbilt record six tournaments and helped the Commodores to 19 team titles during his tenure. He is the program’s all-time scoring average leader at 70.32. His career-low 54-hole score of 17-under 196 is tied for the lowest three-round score in program history. Sargent graduated from Vanderbilt in May of 2025 with a bachelor’s degree in economics.
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