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

Nashville’s Blades Brown, 17, enters the third round of his pro golf career after making 10 birdies in Friday's round at the PGA Tour American Express

Blades Brown was the story of the American Express, with the 17-year-old making birdies and thrilling galleries in his pro debut.

He's just 17 years old, but Blades Brown, making his first pro start at PGA Tour's American Express, has an old-soul perspective thanks to life lessons learned from his dad's successful battle with le

Charley Hoffman won The American Express golf tournament, then the Bob Hope Classic, in January of 2007. That was four months before Blades Brown was born. On Friday, with the 17-year-old Brown playing his second round as a pro, Hoffman found himself outplaying the youngster, though just barely, to take the lead in the desert’s PGA Tour event.

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

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.

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