Davis Bryant’s first top-5 on DP World Tour earns him six-figure payday a week after he recorded his first top-10 on that circuit; the Aurora resident will make his PGA Tour debut starting on Thursday; meanwhile, Dillon Stewart notches top-10 on PGA Tour Americas
By Gary Baines – 7/6/2025
A year ago this month, Davis Bryant of Aurora won the Inspirato Colorado Open, earning an ever-so-important $100,000 that helped fund the next step in his burgeoning professional golf career.
Early this summer, Bryant has taken another notable step in his golf progression. After posting his first top-10 on the DP World Tour last Sunday (June 29) at the Italian Open, the former Colorado State University golfer notched his first top-5 on Sunday. Bryant birdied his final hole from about 10 feet to tie for fourth in the BMW International Open in Munich, Germany.
In fact, the former CGA Player of the Year surpassed the $100k from last year’s Colorado Open for the largest payout of his professional career by earning $116,716 (99,100 euros) for his performance in Munich.
Bryant, the 36-hole leader by two in Germany after recording a hole-in-one in round 2, posted scores of 69-63-72-68 for a 16-under-par total at the BMW International Open, which left him six strokes behind champion Daniel Brown.
The Eaglecrest High School graduate, a rookie on the DP World Tour, finished the week with an eagle (his ace on the 165-yard 12th hole on Friday), 25 birdies and 11 bogeys.
The showing lifted Bryant into 89th place on the season-long Race to Dubai Rankings that is utilized on the DP World Tour.
(July 7 Update: But the performance in Germany had a more immediate impact as Bryant, with his DP World Tour ranking, earned a spot in the field for the ISCO Championship in Louisville, Ky., where he’ll make his PGA Tour debut starting on Thursday. The $4 million tournament is an opposite-field event as the Genesis Scottish Open will be held simultaneously. Both the Scottish and the ISCO are co-sanctioned by the DP World Tour.)
For all the scores from the BMW International Open, CLICK HERE.
Elsewhere in tour golf for Coloradans:
— A player who competed often against Bryant when the two were junior players and in high school, Dillon Stewart of Fort Collins, also recorded a top-10 finish Sunday in a tour event.
Stewart, coming off a victory on June 29 in the Laramie (Wyo.) Open, tied for ninth on Sunday in Explore NB Open, a PGA Tour Americas event in New Brunswick, Canada, east of Maine.
The Fossil Ridge High School and Oklahoma State grad posted rounds of 67-69-63-71 to end up at 14 under par, five strokes behind winner David Perkins. The 2023 CGA Amateur champion and 2024 Sinclair Rocky Mountain Open winner carded an eagle, 16 birdies and four bogeys over 72 holes in Canada.
For all the scores from the Explore NB Open, CLICK HERE.
About the Writer: Gary Baines has covered golf in Colorado continuously since 1983. He was a sports writer at the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, then the sports editor there, and has written regularly for ColoradoGolf.org since 2009. The University of Colorado Evans Scholar alum was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. He owns and operates ColoradoGolfJournal.com