Pittsburgh’s Neal Shipley was introduced to the golf world at large last year when he earned low amateur honors at the Masters and U.S. Open.

Now he has his first professional win.

Shipley, a 24-year-old Central Catholic graduate, outlasted Seungtaek Lee of South Korea in a five-hole playoff to win the Korn Ferry Tour’s LECOM Suncoast Classic on Saturday in windy Lakewood Ranch, Fla.

The tour rookie, who gets the $180,000 first-place check, shot 7-under-par 64 — he made five straight birdies and seven in eight holes — to get to 18-under 266 and qualify for the playoff.

All five holes of sudden death were played on hole No. 18 at Lakewood National Golf Club.

Shipley, a former Ohio State standout, drained a 38-foot birdie putt on the fifth extra hole to seal his first win as a pro, just more than a year after he was presented a piece of crystal at Butler Cabin at Augusta National.

“I had to make some clutch putts,” Shipley told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. “When that last one went in, I kind of went berserk. You practice for moments like that.”

After both players bogeyed the first playoff hole, they each made par the next three times they played the 562-yard par-4 finishing hole.

Shipley, who led the field with 30 birdies, made a 15-foot par putt the third time through.

Shipley moves into third place on the Korn Ferry Tour point list. The top 20 earn a PGA Tour card for 2026.

“This puts me in great position for the rest of the year,” he said. “It’s great to get that first win. But I will just let the golf take care of itself. If I play good golf, it will get the job done.”

Another local product, Greensburg’s Mark Goetz, finished at 9-under in a tie for 33rd place.