After a promising start, Nashville's Blades Brown had a rocky finish as he missed the cut in his first tournament as a professional golfer at the 2025 American Express.

Blades Brown turned pro even though he can not vote, yet he proved it was the right decision at The American Express.

I’m not an artist, but I’m an artist on the putting green,” the teen golfer said after achieving his history-making score

Blades Brown, 17, is having one heck of a PGA Tour debut at The American Express leaving fans in awe of his game.

Nashville’s Blades Brown, 17, made his pro golf debut Thursday in the 2025 American Express Golf tournament in La Quinta, California.

Blades Brown, 17, is making his pro debut at this week's 2025 American Express. On Friday, he's showing why he belongs on the game's biggest stage.

Starting on the back nine, Brown parred the 10 th and made a bogey at on the par-5 11 th. But then he caught fire. He had eight birdies in a nine-hole stretch – including six in a row starting at No. 12 – to close with a round of 8-under 64.

The 17-year-old Nashville native, already etched in golf’s record books, draws inspiration from Nick Dunlap’s victory at La Quinta last year.

In 2022, Parke Brown – Blade’s father – was given a somber diagnosis of bone cancer that carried with it a life expectancy of only a few months. After undergoing more test, doctors instead determined Parke had Hairy Cell Leukemia—a rare form of the disease that can’t be cured but is treatable with chemotherapy and frequent blood monitoring.