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.

From improbable to irrefutable: Joe Highsmith is a PGA Tour champion. The Lakewood native posted consecutive weekend rounds of 64-64 to capture his first professional title at the Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches, becoming the first PGA golfer since 2016 to make Friday’s cut on the number before winning it all.

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.