CHARLESTON – Charleston Southern alum and Athletics Hall of Fame member, Jason Caron, has continued to make a splash in his post-collegiate career in the world of professional golf. Most recently, he took a tie for fourth at the 2025 Senior PGA Championship at the end of May, finishing just two strokes behind champion, Angel Cabrera.
 
Caron began the final day with a share of the lead with eventual champion Cabrera and Retief Goosen. He finished with a 1-under 71 in the fourth round at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland. During the week, Caron had a score of 282 for 6-under across the four days to conclude his play in the tournament.
 
Caron played on the PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour until 2003 following his graduation from Charleston Southern in 1994. Since then, he has qualified for events on each tour, however, last year, he emerged back on the scene in a big way as he earned a spot into the field for the Senior PGA Championship and finished in a tie for fourth. After this, he went on to claim a trio of additional top five finishes in 2024 with them coming at the Rogers Charity Classic, Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS and Simmons Bank Championship. His tie for third at the Simmons Bank Championship placed him inside the top 36 of the PGA Tour Champions to earn full membership for this year's tour.
 
In 2025, he has kept up the success that he had last year and made full advantage of the full membership. So far, he has competed in nine events and taken top ten placings at three of the first five events he played. In March, at the Cologuard Classic, he dropped the playoff hole to finish second overall in the field for the best finish on the tour of his career. 
 
There is still plenty of season left in the 2025 Tour and Caron is showing no signs of slowing down as he continues to put the professional golf world on notice and make those that remember watching him wear the blue and gold over three decades ago, proud. 
 
Jason Caron graduated from Charleston Southern in 1994 and was inducted into the school's Athletics Hall of Fame in 2010. He is one of just five former Men's Golf student athletes to be inducted. During his career with the Buccaneers, he was a three-time Big South All-Conference honoree, earning the distinctions in 1992, 1993 and 1994. At the time, Caron was the first Charleston Southern men's golf student-athlete to accomplish this, setting the path for seven more Buccaneers to do this since his graduation. He had top ten finishes at each of the Big South Championships in those years with his best finish coming in 1993 as he was third overall in the field.