After last week’s virtuoso performance at the 2025 PGA Professional Championship, it’s clear that John’s Island assistant golf pro Tyler Collet is going places.
First stop: Charlotte, North Carolina.
Collet, 29, demolished a deep and talented field of teaching pros at the event held at the PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie last week. In doing so, he earned one of 20 coveted spots in next week’s prestigious PGA Championship at Charlotte’s renowned Quail Hollow Club.
It will be Collet’s fourth PGA Championship appearance in five years, and he’ll enter this one riding a wave of confidence. For that, Collet – who lives in Vero Beach with his wife Sadie and young son Theo – thanks the folks at his home club, where he has worked since 2021.
“The John’s Island support is honestly unbelievable,” he told Vero Beach 32963 last week. “They have been super-invested in what I want to do as a professional and what I want to do in the game of golf, and I truly wouldn’t be where I am without them.
“The management team, my boss (John’s Island Club golf director) Steve Hudson and secondary boss Austin Cook, they’re both super-supportive. I get to play with members, use practice facilities whenever I want. It’s really a special place, and a special management team.”
The stars aligned for Collet last week, with the PGA Professional Championship held this year on nearby courses he knows well. The tournament consisted of four rounds of medal play at the PGA Golf Club complex, three of them on the challenging Wanamaker course famous for its lightning-fast greens.
“The Wanamaker course had all their greens redone last summer, and they just reopened it in November, and they were really fresh and new, and they were really firm and fast, so I actually felt pretty new on the greens,” Collet said. “The green complexes themselves I had to readjust and relearn, but honestly, I felt comfortable doing so. It definitely helped being familiar (with the course).”
The local knowledge served him well, as Collet proceeded to put on a golfing tour de force (and tour de course): consecutive scores of 65, 67, 68 and 72 for a four-round total of 15 under par and a record-breaking 10-shot winning margin.
The spoils of victory were numerous, and included:
- $66,700 in first-place prize money.
- Spots in final qualifying for the U.S. Open, British Open and the second stage of the PGA Tour’s qualifying tournament (Q School).
- Exemptions to six PGA Tour events in the 2026 season.
But first on the agenda, a trip to Quail Hollow May 15-18 to tee it up against the world’s best – which, someday soon, he hopes to do on a permanent basis. Earning a PGA Tour card is “absolutely” his primary focus, Collet said. “That’s the dream and that’s still the goal,” he said.
“I have one more goal that I want to accomplish at the PGA of America and that’s finish low club pro at the PGA,” Collet said. “I want to be standing there on 18th green with the champion on Sunday. I want to make the cut and be the low club pro.”
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- PORT ST. LUCIE, FL – APRIL 30: Tyler Collet hits his tee shot during the final round of the PGA Professional Championship at PGA Golf Club on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 in Port St. Lucie, Florida. (Photo by Ryan Lochhead/PGA of America)
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- PORT ST. LUCIE, FL – APRIL 30: Tyler Collet hits his tee shot on the 18th hole during the final round of the PGA Professional Championship at PGA Golf Club on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 in Port St. Lucie, Florida. (Photo by Ryan Lochhead/PGA of America)
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- PORT ST. LUCIE, FL – APRIL 30: Tyler Collet kisses the PGA Professional Championship trophy after winning the PGA Professional Championship at PGA Golf Club on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 in Port St. Lucie, Florida. (Photo by Ryan Lochhead/PGA of America)
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- PORT ST. LUCIE, FL – APRIL 30: Tyler Collet poses at the 18th hole leaderboard with his caddie and the PGA Professional Championship trophy after winning the PGA Professional Championship at PGA Golf Club on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 in Port St. Lucie, Florida. (Photo by Ryan Lochhead/PGA of America)
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- PORT ST. LUCIE, FL – APRIL 30: Tyler Collet reacts to making his putt on the 18th hole and winning the PGA Professional Championship at PGA Golf Club on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 in Port St. Lucie, Florida. (Photo by Ryan Lochhead/PGA of America)
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- PORT ST. LUCIE, FL – APRIL 30: Tyler Collet poses with the PGA Professional Championship trophy after winning the PGA Professional Championship at PGA Golf Club on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 in Port St. Lucie, Florida. (Photo by Ryan Lochhead/PGA of America)
