Drew Zielinski played his first two years of college golf at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College before transferring to Division-II Lee University last season and becoming an All-America honorable mention.

Now a senior, Zielinski will soon be making his PGA Tour debut thanks to a historic victory on Tuesday.

Zielinski birdied each of his final three holes to shoot 6-under 66 and beat teammate and roommate Bennett McNabb by two shots at the Golfweek Fripp Island to Bermuda Invitational. But that wasn’t all; Zielinski’s first D-II individual title also came with a sponsor exemption into the PGA Tour’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship on Nov. 13-16 at Port Royal Golf Club in Southampton, Bermuda.

This is the first time that a winner of a D-II event has received a PGA Tour exemption.

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