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How it works: 2023 PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry

Beginning in 2023, PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry will award PGA TOUR cards to the top five finishers and ties, in addition to determining 2024 season eligibility for the Korn Ferry Tour and PGA TOUR Americas.

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2023 PGA TOUR Q-SCHOOL PRESENTED BY KORN FERRY

With PGA TOUR cards at stake for the first time in more than a decade, GOLF Channel and Peacock will broadcast eight hours of live weekend coverage at Final Stage of 2023 PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry, officially scheduled for December 14-17 at the Dye’s Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass and Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Hayden Springer reached into his black Chrysler Voyager minivan and grabbed his 1-year-old daughter Annie. He smiled the smile of a father who missed holding his child all day and gave her a good squeeze.

But just over a month ago, on Nov. 13, his oldest daughter Sage died at age 3. She was prenatally diagnosed with Trisomy 18, a developmental disorder stemming from an extra chromosome.

“She’s a very special girl, and we miss her a lot,” Springer said. “She brought an immense amount of joy to our family and the people around her.”

In the midst of what has to be an incredibly difficult grieving process, Springer has managed to play some impressive golf this week at PGA Tour Q-School despite hardly playing for the last month. On Saturday, he shot 2-under 68 at Sawgrass Country Club to improve to 7-under 203, which has him T-5 and right on the cutline for one of the Tour cards being given for the top five and ties this week.

Springer entered the week with full Korn Ferry Tour status after topping the 2023 PGA Tour Canada’s season-long Fortinet Cup, but he’s well aware of what is at stake on Sunday.

“It’s life-changing,” said Springer, who began playing U.S. Kids events at age 8. “I’ve spent most of my life dreaming of playing on the PGA Tour. It’s a special opportunity to be here and have a chance.”

Here are four more things to know after the third round of the 2023 Q-School.

Endycott leads

Harrison Endycott of Australia hits a tee shot on the fourth hole during the second round of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship at Port Royal Golf Course on November 10, 2023 in Southampton, Bermuda. (Photo by Marianna Massey/Getty Images)

Another 65, his second bogey-free round of the week, for Aussie Harrison Endycott at Sawgrass Country Club lifted him to 12-under 198 and a two-stroke lead heading into Sunday’s final round.

“I feel really free. Putter feels great. I’m just kind of in a good head space this week,” said Endycott, who is trying to upgrade from conditional status for finishing No. 139 in the FedEx Cup standings (Nos. 126-150 category on the PGA Tour) during his rookie season. “I’ve got a two-shot lead in a regular golf tournament, and trying to close it out. There’s a lot of good players this week. I’ve still got to go and play well. I can’t go and shoot nothing and expect to win. It’s one of those ones where I’m still trying to mentally feel like this is a Sunday of a PGA Tour event. It’s what you work for. It still does mean something.”

Endycott is a coffee aficionado and has been hitting up Sago, the same joint that he visited back in March when he competed in the Players Championship.

“We’ve been there every day,” he said, noting their donut is good, too. “I’m normally a cortado and a flat white, and I get a little shaky after the cortado, so I might have to just stick to one in the morning to keep the putter a little steadier.”

Boomer Sooner

Blaine Hale Jr. plays his shot from the 13th hole tee during the third round of the Veritex Bank Championship at Texas Rangers Golf Club on April 15, 2022 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Alex Bierens de Haan/Getty Images)

Blaine Hale Jr. still uses his University of Oklahoma yardage book cover, and he’s sharing an AirBnB with former teammates Logan McAllister and Quade Cummins this week at Q-School. Former teammates Max McGreevy and Grant Hirschman are also in the field this week battling for cards. It’s practically a reunion of the 2017 National Championship team. When asked about what it says that so many ex-Sooners are on the leaderboard, he credited coach Ryan Hybl.

“I’ll take Coach Hybl over anyone and just the mentality he instills in his players, just the kind of guy he is, he cares more about us as people rather than golfers. I am just thankful for his leadership,” he said.

Hale shot 67 on Saturday at Sawgrass Country Club, including holing a pitching wedge from 170 yards for eagle at the par-4 fifth hole, to vault into second place at 10-under 200. This is the first time that Hale has made it to final stage — he has never held membership on any PGA Tour-sanctioned tour — and now he’s one round away from making it to the big leagues.

“This was like a little dangling carrot,” he said. “You always think you have a chance but now I actually have one.”

Levin eyes return to the PGA Tour

Spencer Levin plays a shot from the 12th tee during the second round of the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship at Ohio State University Golf Club on Sept. 22, 2023 in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images)

After a slow start, Spencer Levin is well positioned to return to the PGA Tour for the first time since the 2016-17 season. The 39-year-old vet opened with 72 but bounced back with a bogey-free 6-under 64 on Friday and carded six birdies in shooting 66 at Sawgrass Country Club on Saturday. He shares third at 8-under 202 with Trace Crowe.

Levin’s journey from no status to KFT Monday qualifier and then winning six days later was chronicled earlier this week here . Can Levin complete a storybook return back to the Tour?

“I’ve kind of been around the block every which way with this game, so I’m looking forward to tomorrow. It’ll be fun,” he said. “I know what to expect, and I’m looking forward to it.”

Dye Valley's 64 club and WD'itis

There’s no quit in Trey Winstead this week.

The former LSU Tiger opened with 76 but he’s battled back and fired a 6-under 64 on Saturday at Dye’s Valley at TPC Sawgrass. He’s climbed back to 4-under 206 and T-13 with one round to go.

Winstead’s third round got off to an inauspicious start as he made a three-putt bogey but he righted the ship and added an edge at No. 7 and tied for the low round of the day with Blake Elliott and Thomas Power Horan. He’s within striking distance of the top five and ties and PGA Tour membership for 2024.

“It’s a big day. Like so much can happen. Very fortunate to be in this opportunity. I know I’ll go out and commit to each shot and hopefully a dream will come true,” Winstead said.

Well, there is some question whether that ‘big day’ will be Sunday or Monday. The Tour’s game plan to move tee times up one hour worked to perfection on Saturday as the last group was finishing just as the rain started to fall. It is expected to rain overnight and into Sunday and drop between 3-5 inches of the wet stuff in the area.

Not surprisingly, several players who have very little to gain by completing 72 holes have decided not to wait around to see if the courses are playable on Sunday. Ten players withdrew before, during or after the third round: Austin Cook, Rhein Gibson, Cody Gribble, Carter Jenkins, Kelly Kraft, Tain Lee, Sean O’Hair, Trent Phillips, Sam Saunders and Matthias Schwab. That brings the total number of withdrawals to 16.

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2022 Korn Ferry Tour Q-School final results: Prize money payouts, leaderboard, status earned

The 2022 Korn Ferry Tour Q-School final leaderboard is headed by medalist Bo Hoag, who took top honors at The Landings Club (Marshwood / Magnolia) in Savannah, Ga.

Hoag finished the 72-hole event at 14-under 270, earning fully-exempt status on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour season. Chan Kim finished in solo second place, a shot out of the top spot.

That means Hoag is not subject to the Korn Ferry Tour reshuffles, which occur every four events and are based on money earned to that point in the season.

The players finishing 2nd through 10th and ties earn 12 guaranteed starts and exempt status through the third reshuffle. The players finishing 11th through 40th and ties earn eight guaranteed starts and status through the second reshuffle. Every other player earns conditional Korn Ferry Tour status.

Hoag won the $50,000 the winner's share of the $480,000 purse.

Korn Ferry Tour Q-School recap notes

The Korn Ferry Tour Q-School does not offer any PGA Tour status. Every player who gets to final stage gets status on the Korn Ferry Tour, but without guaranteed starts, players are likely forced to Monday qualify.

However, with reshuffles every four events, a player who Monday qualifies and does well can improve their status dramatically in short order.

There is no limit to the number of fully-exempt players possible, so long as those players all tied for first place.

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Percy has been a model of consistency, shooting rounds of 65-66-66.

Steve Allan is in solo second place at 14-under, and Omar Uresti is in solo third place at 13-under. Allan finished with a round of 6-under 65, and Uresti finished with a round of 4-under 67.

It was a struggle for the guys at the top of the leaderboard after round two, with the 36-hole leader Wes Short Jr., carding a round of of even-par 72. He was two-over through 13 holes but recorded birdies on Holes No. 14, 15, and 17 to get to 1-under for the round. He closed his round with a bogey on No.18. Short Jr., is now T4 at 12-under.

Daniel Chopra, who was T2 after 36 holes, also fell five spots to T7 after a round of even-par 72. 

Joining Short Jr. at T4 are Scott Parel and Shane Bertsch at 12-under, and joining Chopra at T7 are Todd Demsey and Jason Schultz at 11-under.

Greg Chalmers, who has made 485 PGA Tour career starts, shot 5-under 66 in the third round to jump into the top 10.

Former Ryder-Cupper Boo Weekley is T59 and 3-over after a third-round 2-over 73.

Notah Begay III fell 16 spots in the third round, going from T32 to T46 after shooting 2-over 73. Begay is a four-time winner on the PGA Tour. 

In contrast, Chris Riley shot up 16 spots from T57 to T41 after 2-under 69. Riley is a former Ryder-cupper and currently the coach at the University of San Diego, a position he has held since 2017.

Ted Purdy is in solo 72nd place after a 6-over 77, with him at 8-over total. Purdy has made 300 career starts on the PGA Tour and is a Phoenix native. 

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Flying high: Air Force Academy graduate Kyle Westmoreland grabs share of Q-School lead

Westmoreland birdied five of his first eight holes at dye's valley, finished with a 64.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH – Kyle Westmoreland said he wouldn’t have reached the PGA Tour if it had not been for his years at the Air Force Academy and subsequent military service. 

But he said he might have strayed a bit from that kind of mental and physical rigor in the past year and wants to regain that kind of focus. 

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Westmoreland looked focused enough on the TPC Sawgrass Dye’s Valley Course on Friday when he birdied five of his eight holes and went on to post a 64 to grab a share of the 36-hole lead in the PGA Tour Q-School, presented by Korn Ferry, at 7-under-par 133. 

Westmoreland is tied with first-round co-leader Harrison Endycott (68, Sawgrass Country Club) and Blaine Hale Jr. (66, Sawgrass). The trio is one shot ahead of PGA Tour veteran Harry Higgs (65, Sawgrass) and Trace Crowe (65, Sawgrass). 

Tied at 5-under are Keita Nakajima of Japan (66, Sawgrass), who is the highest-ranked player in the world in the field at No. 90, Brandon Harkins (66, Valley) and Hayden Spring (69, Sawgrass). 

Higgs and Harkins had bogey-free rounds.

Leading First Coast residents are former Jacksonville University player Raul Pereda, who had a bogey-free 67 at the Valley, and St. Augustine resident and past DP World Tour winner Julian Suri, who matched that 67 at the Valley. The two are tied for 15th.

The top five players and ties after 72 holes will earn PGA Tour cards. The next 40 will have exempt Korn Ferry Tour status.

Third round will begin early, Monday finish possible

The remaining field of 159 players (there have been six withdrawals) will start an hour early at 7:30 a.m. to try to beat a line of severe weather predicted to sweep through the area late Saturday afternoon and into the night. 

There are predictions of 2-4 inches of rain and wind gusts as high as 50 mph, leaving the timing of Sunday’s final round in doubt. The Tour is prepared to finish the tournament on Monday. 

In the meantime, players took advantage of slightly calmer winds on both courses in the second round. The field averaged 69.873 on the Valley Course, more than a shot less than the first round, and knocked almost three shots off the average Sawgrass score, going from 73.099 to 70.122. 

“There's still some wind out there,” said Westmoreland, who made a series of putts of 15 feet or less on the front, until capping his run with a 40-footer at No. 8. “Especially here [at the Valley] you get in the trees and it swirls a little bit. My caddie did a great job of trying to work through those numbers and trying to take as much risk out of it. There's really good tee shots out here, so I played some good golf and made a few putts.” 

Westmoreland, a native of Katy, Texas, qualified for the PGA Tour off his 2022-23 Korn Ferry Tour finish, becoming the second service academy graduate to earn a PGA Tour card following Billy Hurley (U.S. Naval Academy). Westmoreland eventually rose the the rank of captain and taught "Combative" at the Academy, which he said invovled boxing and basic grappling.

"A glorified PE teacher," he said.

Tom Whitney (Air Force) became the third by finishing 21st on this year's Korn Ferry Tour points list.

Westmoreland admits he needs better focus

Westmoreland got 32 starts this season but made only 10 cuts and finished 192nd on the FedEx Cup Fall points list. 

“You learn how to prepare. You learn how to be disciplined in kind of what you're going about doing,” he said of what his USAF Academy experience taught him. “To be honest, I've fallen short a little bit this year, kind of getting outside of my preparation, how I do things. We're really just trying to focus on going back to that. Prepare, really focus on doing the things that are going to make me better throughout the week. I'm so thankful for my service time. I wouldn't be here without it. But I can always get better.” 

Hale, who played college golf at Oklahoma, needs every bit of status he can muster because he’s one of the players in the field who is starting from ground zero. He has advanced through first- and second-stage qualifying and made just over $5,000 for making one Korn Ferry Tour cut last season. 

“I've done about all I can to be in this position,” he said. “Just keep putting the ball in front of me and keep going the next couple days. It's just validation. It's validation that I was doing the right thing, validation that I've been practicing the right way.” 

Hale was 5-under for the day through 12 holes, stumbled with a pair of late bogeys but righted himself with a closing birdie at the difficult ninth hole at Sawgrass. 

Endycott, an Australian who had the only bogey-free round on Thursday on either course, finally made one at Sawgrass’ 18 th hole after 26 in a row without a blemish. 

He turned and was 1-under with no further damage on the front nine. 

Second round had some adventuresome golf

There were other assorted Q-School highlights and lowlights: 

• Spencer Levin shot a bogey-free 64 for the low round at Sawgrass and is tied for ninth at 4-under. 
• Wesley Bryan birdied four holes in a row on the back nine of the Valley, made a quadruple-bogey 8 at No. 17, then birdied four of his first five holes on the front nine for a 66. He’s also tied for ninth. 
• Tano Goya, who was tied for the first-round lead with Endycott, was 5-under to start his Sawgrass round and lost all five shots by the turn, ending with a double-bogey at No. 9. He then played the back nine clean with three birdies for a 72. 
• Daniel Summerhays had a bogey-free 65 at the Valley and Rob Oppenheim had eight scores of 2 or 3 for a 65 at the Valley as they both moved into a tie for 15 th . 
• Aldrich Potgieter, a 19-year-old South African and the youngest player in the field by 3 years, 2 months, and 4 days, shaved 15 shots off his 8-over 78 at Sawgrass Country Club with 7-under 63 at the Valley, the lowest round of the week on that course. He went from a tie for 156th to a tie for 61st, up 95 spots.
• Erik Compton birdied four of his first five holes at Sawgrass, and then birdied his first three holes on the back nine. But he had double-bogeys at Nos. 8 and 18 for a 68 and a tie for 30th at 2-under. 
• Dillon Board, who went to nearby Baldwin High School. Board shot 82 in the first round at Sawgrass and knocked 12 shots off with a 70 at the Valley. He’s still got a long way to climb because he rose only six spots to 157 th . 

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5 PGA Tour hopefuls see their dreams fulfilled at Q-School Finals at TPC Sawgrass

PGA Tour Q-School awarded five players with PGA Tour cards for the 2024 season, thus changing their lives forever.

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PGA Tour Q-School is not for the faint of heart.

The experience is an absolute grind, as hundreds of golfers vied for just five PGA Tour cards over four months. Pre-qualifying for this year’s Q-School began in September, with the first stage occurring in mid-October. This year’s Q-School also happened to be the first of its kind since 2012, before the tour shifted to a wraparound schedule.

The PGA Tour returns to a traditional, calendar-based schedule in 2024, hence the re-establishment of Q-School this year.

Alas, the top 156 players from those qualifying stages received invitations to the Q-School Finals in Ponta Vedra Beach, Florida, where Dye’s Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass and Sawgrass Country Club awaited them.

So, too, did wind, rain, and nasty weather. The conditions made an already difficult experience even more challenging. The final round was postponed to Monday because of the rain.

But Harrison Endycott of Sydney, Australia, did not seem too bothered by the pressure and the weather. He emerged victorious at Q-School, winning the 72-hole stroke play event by four strokes over Trace Crowe.

Harrison Endycott wins @PGATOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry! Joining him on TOUR in 2024 will be Trace Crowe, Blaine Hale Jr., Raul Pereda and Hayden Springer. : Golf Channel & @peacock pic.twitter.com/skc6SXFrJ6 — Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) December 18, 2023

Endycott did a great job managing the course and battling the conditions. He finished atop the leaderboard thanks to his four rounds in the 60s, two of which were 5-under 65s.

Like Endycott, Crowe carded four rounds in the 60s and earned his PGA Tour card for 2024.

“It’s a dream come true. I don’t think it’s really sunk in yet,” Crowe said.

“Words can’t really explain it.”

A native of Easton, South Carolina, Crowe signed for a 3-under 67 to finish in solo second at 11-under overall. He relied on his short game to get the job done.

Then, Blaine Hale, Jr., the 4,210th-ranked player in the Official World Golf Rankings, finished in third place.

Hale, Jr. shot rounds of 67-66-67-71 to earn his PGA Tour card for next season, proving that rankings are just a number and that anyone can play their way onto the tour. He played collegiately at the University of Oklahoma.

And finally, finishing in a tie for fourth and thus earning their cards, sits Raul Pereda of Mexico and Hayden Springer of Nashville, Tennessee.

Pereda was on the outside looking in after stumbling on the 6th and 7th holes. He doubled the par-4 6th after driving it into the penalty area. Then he continued to slide on the next hole, as he dropped another shot.

“My sports psychologist back in the day always taught me how to look at [a round] like a boxing fight,” Pereda said of his struggles early in the round.

“You’re going to hit, but you’re going to get hit, as well. I got hit early in the round, and I still had 12 holes to go, so I might as well put some punches out there. I did it in the best way, not putting but chipping, so the course definitely felt that jab.”

His round turned around at the 10th hole, where he chipped in for birdie from off the green. Then, four holes later, Pereda chipped in again , which got him to 1-under on the day and to 8-under overall.

Raul Pereda with his second chip-in of the day to move 8-under and inside the top 4! : Golf Channel & @peacock pic.twitter.com/E0VFjOVqd5 — Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) December 18, 2023

“I hit a good chip, and the ball went in,” Pereda said after the round. “It’s not that I tried to make it, it’s just I hit a good chip, I hit my spot, and the ball went in, and hooray, I guess.”

Pereda’s superb short game helps him become the only active player of Mexican heritage on the PGA Tour for 2024.

Springer, meanwhile, overcame unimaginable adversity to claim his card for next season. His 3-year-old daughter, Sage, passed away on Nov. 13 after being diagnosed prenatally with Trisomy 18, a severe developmental disorder stemming from having an extra chromosome.

But now, with a PGA Tour card in hand, perhaps Springer can use his platform to help spread awareness about Trisomy 18.

He shot a 1-under 69 to finish alongside Pereda at 8-under.

And yet, as five players achieved their dreams, hundreds of others saw their goals slip away.

Not all hope is lost for all of them, however.

The next 40 finishers and ties beyond the top five earn status on the Korn Ferry Tour, giving dozens of golfers quality playing opportunities.

But what is great about Q-School is that anyone can play well, and reap the rewards. Because at the end of the day, it comes down to something quite simple: shoot the lowest score.

Jack Milko is a golf staff writer for SB Nation’s Playing Through. Be sure to check out @_PlayingThrough for more golf coverage. You can follow him on Twitter @jack_milko as well.

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2024 Texas Open leaderboard, grades: Akshay Bhatia nets second PGA Tour win, last Masters invite in playoff

Bhatia's victory means the 2024 masters field is now official.

There was nothing stress-free about Akshay Bhatia's victory at the 2024 Texas Open despite how most of the week looked. Kickstarting his week with a 9-under 63 on Thursday, the lengthy left hander went wire-to-wire at TPC San Antonio for a playoff victory over Denny McCarthy at 20 under. By doing so, Bhatia became the third youngest winner to go wire-to-wire on the PGA Tour since 1983 behind Rory McIlroy at the 2011 U.S. Open and Jordan Spieth at the 2015 Masters.

Speaking of the Masters, Bhatia's victory marks his second in as many years, and it comes at a rather opportune time. Earning the final invitation into the 2024 Masters, the 22-year-old will drive down Magnolia Lane for the first time in his professional career and tee it up in only his second major championship. Bhatia's Masters debut comes a decade after qualifying and playing in the first-ever Drive, Chip and Putt competition at Augusta National.

Not only has Bhatia earned his chance to vie for the green jacket next week, he has solidified his playing privileges on the PGA Tour through the 2026 season. Bhatia will tee it up at the PGA Championship as well as the remaining signature events on the PGA Tour schedule.

"I just stuck to my game plan," Bhatia said. "I played great today. I kind of got the goal in mind today. Denny played unbelievable. You got to give him credit. It's hard because he's one of the best putters out here, and when you see him get hot, it's scary. I had a six-shot lead going into the back nine, and then all of sudden, we are tied going into 18 and then of course he makes that putt. Man, what a crazy crazy day."

Bhatia began the final round at TPC San Antonio in possession of a four-stroke lead -- tying Jake Knapp for the largest 54-hole margin this season. The lead grew to five with a birdie immediately out the gate and was pushed to half a dozen when Bhatia added his third birdie of the round on No. 4.

McCarthy attempted to apply some pressure on the front, but it proved ineffective as Bhatia went to the inward half with his six-stroke lead still intact. A punch finally landed on No. 10 when McCarthy connected from distance for his second birdie of the day and Bhatia failed to get up-and-down from long of the green cutting his lead to four. The drama ensued from there.

After making par on the 11th, McCarthy went unconscious and left Bhatia defenseless. Birdie after birdie came from the blade of McCarthy as he rattled off six in a row and within a blink of an eye, Bhatia's lead of six was cut to zero as the two men stood on the tee at the par-5 18th.

Both facing roughly 12-foot birdie bids, both connected and unleashed fist pumps after both players reached 20 under -- nine clear of McIlroy in third place. McCarthy's final putt in regulation was his 92nd of the week tying a PGA Tour record for fewest amounts of putts in a tournament while Bhatia's made waves for a completely different reason. 

An update on Akshay Bhatia's shoulder injury. https://t.co/iYKkZXlTKc pic.twitter.com/U08UYGHmiX — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) April 7, 2024

Popping his shoulder out of his socket during his celebration, Bhatia called upon the services of his physiotherapist on the first playoff hole. With his ball in the fairway, Bhatia watched as McCarthy approached his third and chunked his wedge into the creek protecting the putting surface.

After getting his shoulder taped, Bhatia stepped to his and safely found the putting surface to all but secure his second PGA Tour victory and a trip to the Masters.

"This is awesome," Bhatia said. "It's hard to win out here as it showed today. My mom's birthday was on April 1, and her wish was to get in the Masters. I'm hoping I make her proud." Grade: A+

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3. Rory McIlroy (-11): Oh boy, here we go again. It was an ideal last start for McIlroy ahead of the Masters as he fired a final-round 66 and got the big numbers out of his system. Adhering to the swing advice of Butch Harmon, McIlroy made a conscious effort to eliminate the quick, aggressive left miss and took a huge step in the right direction in terms of his iron play. He ranked third in strokes gained approach thanks to gaining nearly four with his scoring clubs on Sunday alone. Grade: A

"I definitely feel like I'm in a better place than I was a few weeks ago," McIlroy said. "Through the Florida swing, there was just a lot of volatility in my game, some good, some bad, quite a few big numbers, so just trying to tidy that up. For me, I'm always going to be able to hit good shots, it's just how bad the bad ones are, and this week the bad ones were still in play and no too bad, and I was able to scramble well enough when I did hit a few poor ones. Again, overall much more pleased with where my game is compared to two or three weeks ago."

Rory McIlroy: bogey-free 66 today; his best final round leading into the Masters in 10 years. In 2014, he shot 65 on Sunday in Houston - finished T-8 the next week at Augusta. — Justin Ray (@JustinRayGolf) April 7, 2024

T7. Hideki Matsuyama (-8): The 2021 Masters champion is red hot. Matsuyama's last four starts now read: Win, T12, T6, T7. He was once again brilliant from tee to green -- ranking inside the top 20 in each metric -- but did not get as much as he would have liked out of the putter ranking first on the PGA Tour in strokes gained around the green and with his ball striking in tow, Matsuyama has to be on the short list of players who can win next week.  Grade: A-

T10. Jordan Spieth (-6): This week featured just about everything from Spieth -- a hole-in-one, a gutter ball, plenty of birdies and plenty of mistakes. It all added up to a 6-under total for his first top-10 finish since the WM Phoenix Open and put an end to a mini dip in form. Spieth was insistent that his game was close on Thursday, and he flashed glimpses of what may be to come at Augusta National. He's driving the ball great (ranked fourth in strokes gained off tee), and his iron play was much sharper. Surprisingly, his short game has been rather meh in his last three starts, but that should change sooner rather than later. Grade: B

The Jordan Spieth Experience™️ https://t.co/15huJUWoYf pic.twitter.com/xrzHb4EE8f — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) April 7, 2024

T24. Max Homa (-4): After opening with a 3-under 69, Homa got stuck in the mud and played his next 54 holes in only 1 under. He came into this week needing to answer questions around his driver and he did just that with a couple really solid rounds from off the tee. His iron play is in a comfy spot, and it will need to continue to be if he expects to contend at the Masters for the first time in his career. Grade: C+

T75. Collin Morikawa (+5): Is it time to press the panic button on Morikawa? The two-time major champion made the cut on the number and wasn't able to do much with the opportunity finishing near the bottom of the weekend pack. Morikawa has now lost strokes on approach in three straight tournaments and hasn't clocked a top-five finish since the first week of the year at The Sentry. Without his iron play, Morikawa looks very (very) average. Grade: D

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Georgia native Steven Fisk wins Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club

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SAVANNAH, Ga. – Steven Fisk is Georgia through and through. He was born in Atlanta and grew up on a par-3 course and driving range his father built (and still operates) in his childhood hometown of Stockbridge. He played college golf for Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, a little under 200 miles from home. He and his wife, Edith, wed last month in Augusta. And Sunday evening in Savannah, roughly an hour drive from Georgia Southern, the 26-year-old Fisk earned his first Korn Ferry Tour win.

Fisk birdied three of the final four holes of regulation and defeated Rob Oppenheim in a sudden-death playoff, capturing the 2024 Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club with a two-putt par on the Deer Creek Course’s par-5 18th hole.

“Such a long day that somehow went by really fast at the same time,” Fisk said. “To get my first win right here in Savannah, so close to where I went to school, is kind of crazy. I haven’t had much success here in the past, but to get it done today is extra special to be this close to what’s kind of my adopted home.”

Fisk began the final round one stroke off the lead but trailed Oppenheim by three strokes with four holes to play. Back-to-back birdies at the par-4 15th and 16th, followed by a clutch par save at the par-3 17th, opened the door for a tying birdie at No. 18. Fisk came within inches of a hole-out eagle from the greenside bunker, but tapped in for a bogey-free 4-under 68 and matched Oppenheim at 14-under 274.

Steven Fisk nearly holes bunker shot at Club Car Championship

For the fourth consecutive event, the winner would be determined via a playoff, tying the Korn Ferry Tour record for consecutive events with a playoff. The previous instances occurred in 2004 and 2019.

In the playoff, Fisk found the right side of the fairway, while Oppenheim drove it into a fairway bunker up the same side. Both had chip shots from behind the green, with Fisk’s rolling out to roughly 12 feet. After Fisk’s two-putt par, Oppenheim had a 7-footer for par which would have extended the playoff. It grazed the left edge of the cup but never fell, sealing the win for Fisk.

“Definitely could feel the crowd on my side,” said Fisk, whose gallery included his wife, parents, as well as his former head coach and several members of the Georgia Southern golf program. “I had a great group of people following me all week, and for them to come out and continue to support me is so special.”

Fisk’s victory in his home state was more than two decades in the making.

When Fisk was 4 or 5 years old, his father, Christopher, built Rum Creek Golf, a nine-hole par-3 course with a driving range and putting green. Even in its infancy, when there was more dirt than sod laid, young Fisk had a club in his hand. By the time he turned 8 years old, Christopher said his son’s hands looked as though they belonged to a bricklayer. As he grew up, Fisk played the par-3 course four or five, maybe even six times a day.

Fisk developed a strong iron game and a unique grip, with the latter eliciting a wide range of critiques through the years.

“If you ask anybody else, my grip probably sucks,” Fisk said. “But I’ve always done it this way. I’ve tried to tinker with it over the years with my coach. It’s just not something I’ve ever been able to get comfortable with. I figured if I’m going to have success in this game, I’m going to do it my way and be stubborn, and do everything I can to make myself the best player I can be and rely on some of my natural instincts.”

Steven Fisk holes lengthy putt for birdie at Club Car Championship

Unique grip and all, Fisk racked up nine career wins in four seasons at Georgia Southern, including six as a senior in the 2018-19 season. Fisk capped his collegiate career with a runner-up finish at the 2019 NCAA Championship and turned professional.

After an undistinguished 2021 season on the Forme Tour (a one-year substitute for PGA TOUR Canada amid the COVID-19 pandemic), Fisk earned Korn Ferry Tour membership and guaranteed starts with a T19 finish at Q-School. A year later, Fisk was right back at Final Stage of Q-School, as he finished No. 119 on the 2022 Korn Ferry Tour Points List with 13 missed cuts in 21 starts.

The second time around was much different for Fisk, who spent nearly the entire 2023 season inside the top 75 and finished No. 64 on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List, earning fully exempt status for the 2024 season.

The flexibility of fully exempt status was a blessing for Fisk, as the Korn Ferry Tour events in Argentina and Chile bumped up against his and Edith’s wedding plans. Without fear of reshuffles or a significant setback on the Points List, Fisk skipped the two events and hardly worried about the results.

Although the newlyweds were only able to vacation for a few days in Florida following the wedding, they discussed a proper honeymoon. Edith had her heart set on Cabo San Lucas.

“I told her we’d see how the year went,” Fisk said. “I think she’s looking pretty good right now.”

Final-Round Notes

• At 14-under 274, Fisk (first, 14-under) totaled the highest 72-hole score by a champion of the Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club (previous: Dan McCarthy/272/2019).
• Korn Ferry Tour winner Oppenheim (second, 14-under) records his third career runner-up finish on the Korn Ferry Tour (2017 Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank, 2017 DAP Championship); he also posts his first top-10 on Tour since May 2022 (T6/Visit Knoxville Open).
• Pak, who finished No. 1 in the inaugural PGA TOUR University Class of 2021, entered the week with one career top-25 (T17/2022 LECOM Suncoast Classic).
• Korn Ferry Tour winner Max McGreevy (T3, 12 under) records his third top-10 of the season (sixth/The Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay; T8/Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard) and has not finished lower than T15 in his three starts at the Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club (T15, 2020; second, 2021).
• Kang, who earned guaranteed starts for the first eight events of the season as a Second Stage medalist from 2023 PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry, entered the week without a top-10 in his previous 12 career starts on the Korn Ferry Tour, with his career-high finish being T20, 2024 Astara Chile Classic presented by Scotiabank
• Philip Knowles (T3, 12-under), who shared the 54-hole lead with Kevin Roy (T6, 11 under), posts his third career top-10 and his highest finish since a T2 at the 2022 Albertsons Boise Open, which earned him a PGA TOUR card in the 2022 Korn Ferry Tour Finals.
• Open qualifier Mason Williams (T9, 10-under), who played five seasons at Georgia Southern University (2018-23) and entered the week with one previous start in a PGA TOUR-sanctioned event (2019 Military Tribute at The Greenbrier as sponsor exemption/MC), earns a spot in the LECOM Suncoast Classic with his top-25 finish this week
• Sponsor exemption Dalton Ward (T25 , 8-under) earns an spot in the LECOM Suncoast Classic with his second top-25 in three starts this season (T3 as open qualifier at 117th Visa Argentina Open presented by Macro).