[1][2] Blaum played college golf at Duke University and was named as Duke University's Most Valuable Player and the Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Year during the 2002-03 season.

He followed this by being named the Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year in the 2004–05 season.

In 2012, Blaum also won the 79th Waterloo Open Golf Classic in Iowa.

[2] Blaum's breakthrough on PGA Tour Latinoamérica came during the 2013 season which featured two victories at the Dominican Republic Open[5] and the Aberto do Brasil.

[6] These two victories combined with a further five top-10 finishes helped Blaum to finish in first place on the PGA Tour Latinoamérica Order of Merit for 2013, a ranking which earned him an automatic place on the 2014 Web.com Tour.