Jordan Spieth, 19 has officially joined the PGA Tours a Special Temporary Member for the remainder of the 2013 season.

With a T7 finish at the Tampa Bay Championship presented by EverBank, Spieth earned $148,893 for a total of $521,893 in four starts this season, surpassing the total earnings of the player that finished No. 150 on the 2012 money list ($474,295).

The Texas-born Spieth is now eligible for unlimited sponsor exemptions in his attempt to earn his 2013-14 TOUR card through the Non-member Money List or Non-member FedExCup Points List.

Talented Texan Jordan Spieth becomes PGA Tour Temporary Member.

As well, Spieth’s top-10 finish at the Tampa Bay Championship also gives him an exemption into next week’s Shell Houston Open.

Spieth is the only golfer other than Tiger Woods to have won the US Junior Amateur multiple times.

Before turning 18 in July 2011, Spieth was number one in the Polo Golf Rankings, which determines the best junior golfers in the United States.

Spieth, the 2009 and 2011 U.S. Junior Amateur champion, finished third in the 2009 Junior PGA Championship and as a result of his efforts that year, the American Junior Association named him Rolex Junior Player of the Year in 2009.

Spieth accepted an exemption to play in the 2010 HP Byron Nelson Championship, and it was the tournament’s first amateur exemptions since Trip Kuehne in 1995, and Justin Leonard and Tiger Woods in 1993.

Spieth made the cut, becoming the sixth-youngest player to make the cut at a PGA Tour event on route to finishing T16th

Speith earned a spot also in the 2012 US Open as an alternate after Brandt Snedeker withdrew and then finished T21st for the Low Amateur award.

He became the number one amateur in the wold after that performance before turning pro on December 2012.