(Pictured: Korn Ferry Tour points leader Ian Holt. Credit: PGA Tour)
By Chris Lang
The Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by Virginia’s Richmond Region is coming to VSGA member club The Federal Club in October.
The top 60 players on the Korn Ferry Tour points list following the third playoff event of the season – The Compliance Solutions Championship in Oklahoma – advance to a four-round no-cut final event at the Glen Allen club. The KFT Championship is scheduled for Oct. 8-11 and all four rounds will be televised by Golf Channel. The top 20 finishers earn 2027 PGA Tour cards.
How the Korn Ferry Tour Finals work
The VSGA will take a monthly look at the PGA Tour’s top developmental circuit to prepare members for whom they might see at The Federal Club come October.
Who has won so far?
Six events are in the books, with another – The Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club – currently in progress.
After starting the season abroad, the KFT is making its U.S. debut this week. The rest of the schedule, save for one event in Mexico, will be contested on U.S. soil.
Your 2026 winners:
The next three events:
The Top Five
Ian Holt | Points: 1,125.813 | Rank: 1
A 30-year-old from Kent State, Holt finished 42nd in points last year but has gotten off to a fantastic start this season. One more victory earns him an automatic PGA Tour promotion. He competed on the KFT in 2023 (150th in points) and 2019 (two starts, two MCs). Holt played hockey for eight years growing up.
Alistair Docherty | Points: 787.063 | Rank: 2
Born in Saint John in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, Docherty played collegiately at Cal State Chico. Docherty, 32, has played in 83 KFT events and earned his first victory this season. He’s made five PGA Tour starts (two made cuts) and finished tied for second at the 2024 PGA Tour Myrtle Beach Classic. Like Holt, Docherty grew up playing hockey, but injuries and lack of size led him to a career in golf.
Taylor Dickson | Points: 568.964 | Rank: 3
The win in this year’s opener was the third KFT victory for Dickson, who is 33 and played college golf at Winthrop. Dickson is looking to get back to the PGA Tour, where he’s made 27 starts, 11 cuts, and has one top-five finish.
Doc Redman | Points: 553.221 | Rank: 4
Followers of regional junior golf will remember Redman, who played for Team Carolinas in the Virginias-Carolinas Junior Boys Matches in the mid-2010s. Redman also defeated Virginia’s Mark Lawrence Jr. in the semifinals of the 2017 U.S. Amateur before ousting Doug Ghim in extra holes in the final match. Redman has plenty of PGA Tour experience, making 125 starts and carding six top-5 finishes. Yes, Doc is his real first name.
James Nicholas | Points: 539.533 | Rank: 5
Nicholas, a 29-year-old who played at Yale, earned his first professional victory earlier this season in Colombia. He’s made six PGA Tour starts, making two cuts. Yet another player with a hockey background, he grew up playing junior hockey with and against 2026 U.S. Olympic gold medalist and current Boston Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy.
Five more names to watch
Adam Hadwin | Points: 311.875 | Rank: 11
The 38-year-old Hadwin, who played college golf at Louisville, is a past PGA Tour winner (2017 Valspar Championship) who dropped to the KFT after being part of the top circuit since the 2014-15 wraparound season. He’s split time between the two tours this season, making three PGA Tour starts (one cut) and two KFT starts (including a T2 finish in Panama).
Trevor Cone | Points: 247.333 | Rank: 18
A former Virginia Tech standout from Charlotte, Cone is looking to regain full PGA Tour status after finishing 178th in the FedEx Cup standings after making 26 starts in 2025. He’s had an up-and-down season in 2026, with his points coming mostly from a third-place finish in Panama and a T13 in the season opener. Heading into this week, he’s missed three straight cuts. As one might expect, if he came out to the first tee with walkup music, the song would be Metallica’s Enter Sandman.
Ben Kohles | Points: 243.750 | Rank: 19
Kohles, 36, played his college golf at Virginia and was a bit of a late bloomer, having not picked up a golf club until he was 15. He’s made 57 PGA Tour starts over the last two seasons but struggled to a 153rd-place finish in last year’s FedEx Cup and earned KFT status through Q School.
Jeff Overton | Points: 147.700 | Rank: 36
A seasoned veteran at 42, the former Indiana University standout is looking for a return to the PGA Tour full-time for the first time since the 2015-16 season. A T3 finish at the season opener has him in the mix to make it to Glen Allen. He was inducted into the IU athletics Hall of Fame in 2019.
Blades Brown | Points: 76.048 | Rank: 73
One of the nation’s most talented junior golfers, Brown bypassed college golf and turned professional in 2024. Still just 18, Brown has made the cut in three of his four PGA Tour events this season and played in the final group with Scottie Scheffler at The American Express in January. He finished third at the Puerto Rico Open. His best path to full-time PGA Tour status, though, is likely through the KFT. Fun fact: Blades’ mother Rhonda made the first 3-pointer in WNBA history, playing for the New York Liberty in 1997.
Local flavor
Brandon Berry, who played collegiately at Loyola in Baltimore but grew up as a member at River Bend Club in Great Falls, has had a tough start to the season, making only one cut in six starts. The top 156 on the season-ending points list advance to the first KFT playoff event, and Berry currently stands in a tie for 165th. He’ll need to take advantage of limited opportunities the rest of the way to have a chance to crack the top 156.