If you are a fan of golf, which seems to be plenty of people in Minnesota, it looks like we've got a fellow Minnesotan to follow on the PGA Tour this year. A 24-year-old Minnesotan just got his first PGA Tour card, thanks to his play on the Korn Ferry Tour. Congrats to Frankie Capan III!

The Korn Ferry Tour made the celebratory announcement on social media last week.

Frankie Capan III is a Stillwater Minnesota native, that attended Florida Gulf Coast University.

Growing up Frankie and his family split time between Minnesota and Arizona, and according to his PGA biography, he was the standard bearer for the 2012 Waste Management Open in Phoenix.

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What is the Korn Ferry Tour, and how does it grant PGA Tour Cards?

The Korn Ferry Tour, is the PGA's minor league so to speak, it gives golfers the chance to earn enough points through their play, to earn a chot at playing in PGA Tournaments, where the purses are larger, and of course there is more attention on the golfers.

You can read more about how that has changed this year, by offering 30 PGA Tour cards rather than the 25 offered in years past, by heading here.

Fun fact about Minnesota's latest PGA player

If you can see Frankie play this year, now that he has is PGA Tour card, be on the lookout for his signature green ball marker. It's a 1967 quarter.

Why the specific piece of change to mark his ball on the green, well it has to do with his dad. According to the same PGA biography, he uses that quarter because:

His dad was born in 1967 and introduced him to the game; he also always marks it using the tails side because "tails never fails."

Congrats to Frankie, and I know I'll be looking forward to watching his progress during the upcoming PGA season.