On Thursday morning, Jason Day had to withdraw from the Player Championship due to an illness.  This created an opening for a list of alternate players, and the one who managed to get in was Danny Walker.  A player who only joined the PGA Tour this year didn’t even have a guaranteed place at the Players Championship.  Now that Walker has been officially introduced to the PGA Tour, many fans asking: “who is he?”

Growing up in Florida, he always had a love for golf since he was at least three.  He would see events held in Orlando and Tampa Bay any chance he got.  Walker has been going for his tour card since 2018, he has narrowly missed the cut each time he tried.  For a long while he only had his Ferry Korn Tour Card which he lost in 2023.  He was going through the PGA Tour Q School during this time where he only got as far as the second stage.  Strangely enough, during this time he was going through university for astrophysics class as a backup plan.

Walker finally earned his Tour card through the Korn Ferry Campaign in 2024.  He managed to finish at number 28 and got his card by being in the top 30 for the campaign.