Joe Highsmith entered a rare club of PGA Tour winners accomplishing a feat at the 2025 Cognizant Classic that had not been seen in nearly a decade.

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.

Joe Highsmith could feel himself crumbling under the pressure at the Cognizant Classic. This was on Friday, when the only thing at stake was making the cut. It came down to a 5-foot par putt he described as “the worst putt you'd ever want,