Winding Bay, ABACO – Georgetown native Billy Tom Sargent and Owensboro’s Matt Atkins each posted top-25 finishes Wednesday in final-round action of the Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club.

In breezy conditions with gusts up to 30 mph, Sargent climbed up the leaderboard to tie for 13th place at 5-under 283 after posting a 1-under 71 on Wednesday. Atkins concluded his tournament tied for 22nd place at 3-under 285 after slipping 18 slots following his 5-over 77. Ian Holt was the tournament champion (12-under), birding the par-5 18th hole to break a three-way tie and capture his first title.

It was Sargent’s seventh career top-25 finish on the Korn Ferry Tour while Atkins earned his 30th such finish.

Complete results are available at https://www.pgatour.com/korn-ferry-tour/leaderboard.

The event is the second of the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour season with The Bahamas Golf Classic at Atlantis Paradise Island kicking off the new campaign last week in Nassau. Both events are managed on behalf of the PGA TOUR by Kentucky-based bdG Sports, a global event management company.

Sargent has played in 58 events on the Korn Ferry Tour since 2020. His lone top-10 finish to date came when he tied for seventh at the 2025 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Wichita Open. He earned exemption into the 2026 KFT season after finishing the 2025 campaign inside the top 100 on the points-standings list.

This event marks Atkins’ 200th career tournament on the Korn Ferry Tour. He won the 2017 El Bosque Mexico Championship; took second at the 2024 Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation and tied for second at the 2016 Club Colombia Championship.

In all, five Kentuckians competed this week in Abaco. J.M. Butler (Louisville), Josh Teater (Lexington) and Jared Wolfe (Louisville) each finished outside the even-par cut line that was finalized Tuesday morning. Butler ended up at 4-over 148. Wolfe, the winner of this event in 2020, finished a stroke behind Butler at 5-over 149. Teater concluded his tournament stay at 7-over 151.

This week’s event featuresd a $1 million purse with Holt taking home $180,000 check as champion. Seven of the last eight Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at the Abaco Club victors have gone on to earn their PGA TOUR Card at the conclusion of the season, including last year’s winner, Canadian Sudarshan Yellamaraju.

The top 20 players on the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Points List will earn 2027 PGA TOUR membership, with the season-long standings finalized after the Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by Virginia’s Richmond Region in mid-October.