In 2011, Frazar was playing the PGA Tour on a medical exemption which required him to earn over $600,000 in 11 tournaments to earn his 2011 PGA Tour card. After missing five straight cuts Frazar took a number of weeks off to reassess his game and bounced back with a T-14 finish at the HP Byron Nelson Championship upon his return. Two weeks later, with two starts left on his medical exemption, he won his maiden PGA Tour title at the FedEx St. Jude Classic in a playoff over Swede Robert Karlsson. Frazar had a one stroke lead entering the final hole on Sunday but found the water hazard with his second shot resulting in a sudden death playoff. After both players parred the first two playoff holes, Frazar won at the third extra hole when Karlsson missed a 12-foot par putt to extend the playoff. This was Frazar's first win in 355 starts on tour; he had four second place finishes in thirteen years. In an instant, Frazar went from planning his retirement after the season to a PGA Tour card through the 2013 season, an invitation to his first Masters in 2012, and a 138-point jump (178th to 40th) in the FedEx Cup. The win also elevated Frazar from 583rd to 144th in the Official World Golf Ranking. Frazar had already qualified his way into the U.S. Open the week before, where he finished T30. Frazar's earnings between The Players Championship and the AT&amp;T National earned him an exemption into the 2011 Open Championship, his first Open, where his finished 69th.