RJ Manke: Korn Ferry Tour Player & RADMOR Athlete

RJ Manke has represented RADMOR since the early years of his professional career, but our belief in him began well before we knew where that career might lead.

When we first partnered with RJ, he was coming off an extraordinary collegiate run. He had been a First Team All-American, a Pac-12 Champion, an NCAA Team Champion and one of the best collegiate players in the country. He had already proven he could compete at an elite level and was beginning the long, uncertain transition from amateur golf into the professional game.

The résumé made him easy to notice.

The person behind it made us want to be part of the journey.

RJ was thoughtful, humble and conscientious, with a quiet competitiveness that became more apparent the longer you spent around him. He cared deeply about the game, but also about how he carried himself within it. As anyone who has spent time with RJ quickly discovers, he is simply one of the genuinely good people in golf.

When we first announced our partnership, we said RJ embodied much of what we hoped RADMOR could stand for. He wanted to do things the right way, cared about the world around him and understood that being a winner meant more than what appeared on a leaderboard.

Years later, we believe that even more.

THE LONG WAY FORWARD

From the outside, professional golf can appear almost linear.

Play well in college. Turn professional. Earn status. Make the PGA TOUR.

For almost everyone who actually attempts it, the journey is considerably more complicated.

Over the years, RADMOR has traveled with RJ through nearly every part of that experience, from practice ranges and Monday qualifiers to Korn Ferry Tour events and long stretches on the road. There have been great rounds and difficult ones, wins and missed cuts, thousands of miles traveled and countless tournament holes played with no guarantee about what comes next.

There has been status earned, status lost and status earned again.

That is professional golf.

It is an extraordinarily difficult way to make a living, where a season can turn on a single shot and the difference between moving forward and starting over can be almost impossibly small.

In 2024, RJ finished 37th on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List, coming painfully close to earning a PGA TOUR card. It was the kind of season that proved how close he was, while also illustrating just how unforgiving the path can be.

The following season tested him differently.

So RJ did what golfers who truly believe in themselves eventually learn to do.

He went back to work.

Back to Q-School. Back to competing. Back to earning his way forward.

There is something about that process that tells you far more about a player than any single result ever could.

STILL CHASING IT

Professional golf measures everything.

Every score, every cut, every point, every ranking and every card becomes part of the record. Those numbers matter, of course, but they rarely tell the whole story of the person accumulating them.

We have had the privilege of watching RJ experience some extraordinary highs and some genuinely difficult stretches. Through all of it, what has impressed us most is how little the person has changed.

He continues to work. He continues to learn. He continues to compete with the same quiet determination that first caught our attention years ago.

And he continues to represent RADMOR with a character and humility that mean far more to us than where his name happens to sit on a leaderboard on any given Sunday.

Perhaps that is one of the great lessons of golf.

You never really know where the game is going to take you.

The only thing you can control is whether you keep showing up, keep doing the work and remain willing to stand over the next shot believing something good might happen.

RJ is still doing exactly that. And he's still our guy.

We don't know precisely where the journey will take him next, and that's part of what makes it worth following. What we do know is that after all these years, we're every bit as proud to have RJ wearing RADMOR as we were when this relationship began.

Probably more so.

Because back then, we knew the player he had been.

Today, we know the person and competitor he has become.

And we're proud to still be alongside him, believing in what's ahead and enjoying the privilege of watching the story unfold.

Golfer. Competitor. RADMOR Athlete. Friend.

Citizen of the Game.