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.

Highsmith closed with weekend rounds of 64-64 on a toughening par-71 Champion course to claim his first PGA Tour title in unexpected fashion at PGA National.