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.

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But the players on the first page of the Cognizant leaderboard shot dozens of spots up the money list, led by winner Joe Highsmith, who went from 129 th to 14 th with his first PGA Tour title. Highsmith earned $1,656,000 to nearly multiply his bankroll entering the week of the tournament by ten. He now has $1,774,406.