Chris Gotterup quickly became one of the PGA Tour’s best — and there’s so much more to come

PONTE VEDRA, Fla.

— The rate of upward trajectory in Chris Gotterup’s golf career is enough to give you vertigo, it’s been so dizzying.

The 26-year-old who grew up in Little Silver, N.J., down the Shore, and played at Rutgers, has become one of the big boys on the PGA Tour — literally (at 6-foot, 210 pounds....