Three sets of twins have played the PGA Tour: Curtis and Allan Strange in 1981, Parker and Pierceson Coody starting in 2024, and Nicolai and Rasmus Højgaard starting in 2025. Right now, only Nicolai Højgaard and Pierceson Coody made the 2026 FedExCup Playoffs their twin brothers didn’t.
I’ve watched a lot of Zurich Classics from my couch with a scorecard pulled up on my phone, and nothing made me sit up like April 2025, when Nicolai and Rasmus Højgaard combined for a 13-under 59 at TPC Louisiana. I genuinely couldn’t tell which brother had just poured in the putt that tied the course record. That’s the strange part about PGA Tour twins: in the Tour’s entire modern history, there have only been three pairs of them, and two of those pairs are teeing it up right now. This guide covers who they are, how their 2026 seasons actually compare, and why one twin from each family made the FedExCup Playoffs while the other one didn’t.
Meet the Twins Currently Playing the PGA Tour
Two sets of brothers share PGA Tour status in 2026, and they don’t resemble each other on paper the way you’d expect twins to.
Nicolai and Rasmus Højgaard
Nicolai and Rasmus Højgaard arrived March 12, 2001, in Billund, Denmark the town best known as Lego’s hometown. They’re identical twins, and Nicolai is the older brother by a matter of minutes. Both turned pro in 2019 after growing up around their parents’ pro shop, and both signed with Callaway as teenagers on the DP World Tour, years before either held a PGA Tour card.
Nicolai got there first. He earned PGA Tour Special Temporary Membership in April 2023 and made his Ryder Cup debut for Europe that same fall. Rasmus followed in 2025, topping the DP World Tour Eligibility Ranking to earn his own card. That gave the brothers simultaneous PGA Tour membership for the first time, making them the third pair of PGA Tour twins in history.
Parker and Pierceson Coody
Parker and Pierceson Coody arrived January 7, 2000, in Plano, Texas, with Parker showing up 37 minutes before his brother. Unlike the Højgaards, the Coodys are fraternal twins, not identical a detail that surprises people who assume every twin pair on Tour looks like a mirror image. Golf runs three generations deep in this family: grandfather Charles Coody won the 1971 Masters, and father Kyle played the Asian Tour, the Canadian Tour, and the Korn Ferry Tour.
The brothers won a national championship together at the University of Texas in 2022, then split paths turning pro Parker through PGA Tour Canada, Pierceson straight to the Korn Ferry Tour. Both earned PGA Tour cards off the 2023 Korn Ferry points list, giving them simultaneous PGA Tour membership starting in 2024, a full year ahead of the Højgaards.
Both families needed years grinding through developmental tours before any of this happened. That grind isn’t unique to twins Tom Kim made a similar climb from Korean amateur golf to a PGA Tour winner’s circle in his early twenties, and his path is worth comparing against either family’s.
| Facts | Nicolai Højgaard | Rasmus Højgaard | Pierceson Coody | Parker Coody |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | Mar. 12, 2001 | Mar. 12, 2001 | Jan. 7, 2000 | Jan. 7, 2000 |
| Twin type | Identical | Identical | Fraternal | Fraternal |
| Turned pro | 2019 | 2019 | 2022 | 2022 |
| First PGA Tour card | 2023 (temp.) | 2025 | 2024 | 2024 |
| 2026 Tour status | PGA Tour, full status | PGA Tour, full status | PGA Tour, full status | Korn Ferry Tour |
| 2026 FedExCup Playoffs | Qualified, No. 32 seed | Missed | Qualified, No. 56 seed | Not applicable |
The Complete History of PGA Tour Twins (There Are Only Three Pairs)
Here’s an opinion: I think most golf fans assume “twins on Tour” is a recurring novelty. It isn’t. In over a century of PGA Tour golf, exactly three sets of twins have held Tour cards at the same time.
Curtis and Allan Strange (1981)
Identical twins born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1955. Curtis became one of the best players of the 1980s back-to-back U.S. Open titles in 1988 and 1989, a World Golf Hall of Fame plaque, five Ryder Cup appearances, and a stint as Ryder Cup captain in 2002. Allan played the Tour for roughly three and a half years in the late 1970s with far less success, then left golf for a career as a financial advisor. Modern PGA Tour record-keeping starts in 1983, two years after their overlapping membership, which is why golf writers describe later pairs as “first on record” rather than “first ever.”
Parker and Pierceson Coody (2024)
The second pair, and the first to actually cross paths in competition. In March 2024, PGA Tour officials paired the brothers together for the first two rounds of the Texas Children’s Houston Open, where Pierceson’s opening 69 beat Parker’s 70 by a shot. A month later, at the 2024 Zurich Classic, the Coodys and Højgaards both entered as sibling teams the same week another Tour first, and the only time two sets of twins have played a PGA Tour event together.
Nicolai and Rasmus Højgaard (2025)
The third pair, and the first identical twins on Tour since the Stranges. In 2025 they became the first twins to play in the same Masters field, with Nicolai teeing off in the morning wave and Rasmus in the afternoon. They repeated the feat at the 2026 Masters.
One near-miss worth flagging: German brothers Jeremy and Yannik Paul both reached professional golf’s top tier around the same time, but Jeremy plays the PGA Tour while Yannik has stayed on the DP World Tour. That’s not simultaneous PGA Tour membership, so it doesn’t count toward the total but it’s a sign more twin pairs could be coming.
Where the Højgaard Twins Stand in the 2026 FedExCup Playoffs
This is the part every other article about these two is missing, because it changed in the last two weeks. The 2026 FedExCup Playoffs opened August 13 at TPC Southwind in Memphis, and only one Højgaard made the 70-man field.
Nicolai enters at No. 32 in the standings, capping his best PGA Tour season by a wide margin. He made 14 of 19 cuts through the Wyndham Championship, picked up four top-10 finishes, and posted two runner-up results along the way, including a tied-second at the Truist Championship. That’s a massive jump from outside the top 100 in his rookie year.
Rasmus didn’t clear the cut line for the postseason. He sat 103rd in the FedExCup standings heading into the Wyndham Championship, needing a big week to crack the top 70, and it didn’t happen. His best 2026 result was a fourth-place finish at the Rocket Classic in Detroit, and he made the cut at the PGA Championship (T65) but never found the week-to-week consistency his brother did. I’ll say it plainly: Nicolai is playing the better golf right now, and it isn’t particularly close.
Are Both Coody Twins on the PGA Tour Right Now?
No, and this is a distinction almost nobody covering these two gets right. Pierceson has full PGA Tour status for 2026 after regaining his card by finishing 12th on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour points list. He opened the year with three straight top-20 finishes, including a tied-second at the Farmers Insurance Open, and he qualified for the FedExCup Playoffs at No. 56 in the standings.
Parker is playing the Korn Ferry Tour in 2026, not the PGA Tour. He earned his own PGA Tour card off that same 2023 Korn Ferry points list and played the 2024 season, but he didn’t retain full status afterward. So while both Coodys have held PGA Tour cards at points in their careers, they aren’t sharing one at the moment. Pierceson is in Memphis this week. Parker isn’t.
Both Højgaard Twins Are Now Ryder Cup Champions
Here’s a fact that postdates every other article you’ll find on this topic, because it happened after most of them were written. Nicolai made his Ryder Cup debut for the winning European team at Marco Simone in 2023, going 0-2-1 across his matches. Two years later, Rasmus made the winning European team at Bethpage Black in 2025.
No other twin pair in Ryder Cup history American or European has both brothers on winning teams. Not the Stranges, not anyone else. I’ve stood on a first tee with nothing riding on it but a $5 nassau and still felt my hands go clammy. I can’t imagine that walk at Bethpage Black with forty thousand people screaming and your country’s colors on your chest.
Inside the Højgaard Twins’ Golf Bags, Identical Genes, Different Setups
This is where being an identical twin stops mattering. As of the most recent detailed equipment breakdown, from the 2025 Zurich Classic, Nicolai and Rasmus rank almost identically in clubhead speed, Rasmus at 123.77 mph (7th on Tour), Nicolai at 123.21 mph (10th). Same engine, completely different fitting.
| Club | Nicolai | Rasmus |
|---|---|---|
| Driver | Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond, 10.5° | Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond, 10.5° |
| 3-Wood | Callaway Elyte 3HL, 16.5° | Callaway Elyte Triple Diamond, 15° |
| 7-Wood | TaylorMade Stealth 2, 21° | Callaway Elyte Triple Diamond, 21° |
| Irons (4-PW) | Callaway X-Forged ’24, Project X LZ 6.5 shafts | Callaway X-Forged ’24, KBS $-Taper 130 shafts |
| Wedges | Callaway Opus Raw, 50/56/60 | Callaway Opus Raw, 52/56/60 |
| Putter | Odyssey Ai One Jailbird Mini | Odyssey Ai-One Milled 8T DB |
| Ball | Callaway Chrome Tour X | Callaway Chrome Tour X |
How the Højgaard Twins Build Different Clubs for the Same Swing Speed
Their Callaway fitter, Johnny Thompson, traced the difference to swing mechanics. Nicolai swings on a flatter plane with a shorter, deeper backswing, so Thompson builds his gear to help launch the ball higher hence the extra degree and a half of loft on the 3-wood and a shaft designed to add flight. Rasmus already carries higher hands and a steeper plane, so Thompson builds his gear to control launch instead of add it.
I play a 15-degree 3-wood myself, the same number Rasmus carries, and watching two brothers with nearly identical swing speeds need completely different lofts to hit the same shot shape taught me more about dynamic loft than any fitting session I’ve paid for. If you want the deeper explanation of how loft actually changes ball flight, our full loft guide breaks down every number in the bag, not just drivers.
One honest caveat: this breakdown dates to spring 2025. Tour pros tweak their bags constantly, and neither twin has had a public equipment feature since. Treat it as the most detailed comparison publicly available, not as this week’s exact setup.
Milestones Only These Two Pairs Have Set
- First twins paired together in the same PGA Tour round (on record): Coody twins, 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- First two sets of twins to play the same PGA Tour event as sibling teams, same week: Coody and Højgaard twins, 2024 Zurich Classic
- First twins to play the same Masters field: Højgaard twins, 2025 and 2026
- First identical twins to each win a Ryder Cup: Nicolai (2023) and Rasmus Højgaard (2025)
- First brothers to win in back-to-back weeks on the DP World Tour: Nicolai and Rasmus Højgaard, August–September 2021
Line that list up and it’s obvious the Højgaards have set more Tour firsts in half the time the Coodys have been playing. That’s not a knock on the Coodys, third-generation bloodlines and a national championship are nothing to sneeze at, but the Danish identical twins are writing a genuinely unusual chapter in Tour history.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who are the PGA Tour twins right now?
Two pairs hold PGA Tour status in 2026: Nicolai and Rasmus Højgaard of Denmark, and Parker and Pierceson Coody of Texas. Only Nicolai Højgaard and Pierceson Coody actually qualified for the 2026 FedExCup Playoffs.
Are the Højgaard twins identical?
Yes. Nicolai and Rasmus Højgaard are identical twins, born March 12, 2001, with Nicolai the older brother by a few minutes.
Are the Coody twins identical?
No. Parker and Pierceson Coody are fraternal twins, despite frequently getting lumped together as just “the Coody twins.” Parker is 37 minutes older.
Who was the first set of twins to play on the PGA Tour?
Curtis and Allan Strange, identical twins born in 1955, both held PGA Tour cards in 1981, two years before the Tour’s modern record-keeping began.
Have twins ever played in the same group at a PGA Tour event?
Yes. The PGA Tour paired Parker and Pierceson Coody together for the first time at the 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open, the first twin pros grouped together in tournament play on record.
Has a set of twins ever played in the same Masters?
Yes, for the first time in 2025, when Nicolai and Rasmus Højgaard both qualified for the field. They did it again in 2026.
The Bottom Line
Three pairs of twins, one Hall of Famer, one former financial advisor, two brothers who’ve each won a Ryder Cup, and a fraternal pair one tour card away from playing the PGA Tour together again. That’s the entire history of PGA Tour twins in a single paragraph, and it took the sport over a century to write it. Keep an eye on Parker Coody’s Korn Ferry Tour push, if he climbs back to the PGA Tour in 2027, that’s a fourth simultaneous twin pairing, and this list gets a rewrite. For more on the player both twins are chasing in the FedExCup standings, our profile of world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler covers how he’s stayed on top.