6 intriguing pros who can play their way onto the PGA Tour Sunday

Update: The remaining spherical of Q-School was postponed to Monday resulting from heavy in a single day rain on each golf programs.

For these in search of the final full PGA Tour playing cards for subsequent season, it’s come right down to the remaining spherical.

The PGA Tour’s Qualifying Tournament, or Q-School, the first in additional than a decade to award PGA Tour playing cards, will come to a detailed Sunday with the fourth and remaining spherical at TPC Sawgrass (Dye’s Valley Course) and Sawgrass Country Club.

The high 5 gamers and ties will earn PGA Tour playing cards when it’s all completed Sunday, with the high 40 gamers (and ties) being exempt on the Korn Ferry Tour and the following 20 exempt on the Latin America swing of the PGA Tour Americas. Every participant in the discipline earns conditional standing on the Korn Ferry Tour and PGA Tour Americas.

Through three rounds, Harrison Endycott, a PGA Tour rookie in 2023 who completed 139th in the FedEx Cup Fall standings, leads the way by two at 12 below. After him, Blaine Hale Jr. is 2 pictures away from third at 10 below. However, proper round the minimize for the high 5 (which is at present seven below, with six golfers at that quantity or higher) issues get much more bunched.

The host programs have been hit with unhealthy climate all week, however forecasted totals of 2-3 inches of rain in a single day together with 46 mph winds resulting in 20-28 mph winds Sunday may throw issues into chaos.

A complete of 23 golfers enter the remaining spherical inside 5 pictures of the present minimize. Among these are some acquainted names to avid golf followers.

Here are the six most intriguing pros with a shot at getting a PGA Tour card Sunday.

Spencer Levin

T3, -8

For the higher a part of twenty years, Levin has developed a popularity as certainly one of the extra colourful and entertaining gamers in skilled golf. Unfortunately, that character has been absent from the PGA Tour since 2017. He made headlines late final yr when he Monday certified for the Shriners Children’s Open utilizing a Happy Gilmore-esque placing method, after which once more when he performed his way into the Farmers Insurance Open. He’s placing *considerably* extra conventionally this week (claw) but it surely’s bought him in good place to re-earn enjoying standing on the huge Tour for the first time in seven years.

Kyle Westmoreland

T7, –6

Westmoreland went the fallacious route Saturday with a 71 after holding the 36-hole lead with Endycott, however he’s nonetheless only a shot outdoors the minimize. The Air Force veteran made 37 begins as a PGA Tour rookie final season however wasn’t in a position to preserve even conditional standing. However, spherical Sunday and he’ll have an opportunity to for a rebound yr.

Wesley Bryan

T10, -5

One-half of the viral Bryan Bros Golf trick shot artists, Wesley Bryan has had the most profitable profession of the duo, choosing up a win at the 2016 RBC Heritage. However, Bryan has struggled, each with accidents and his type since then and has been enjoying out of the previous champion class the previous few years. He’s two pictures out of a Tour card to start the remaining spherical.

Harry Higgs

T13, -4

Higgs turned a cult hero in 2022 and he and Joel Dahmen authored certainly one of the extra “memorable” moments at TPC Scottsdale’s Stadium Hole sixteenth. However, he misplaced his full standing after that season and performed as a conditional member final season and is about to take action once more in 2024 except he can make up three pictures Sunday.

Fred Biondi

T19, -3

Biondi simply turned professional this spring after successful each the particular person and workforce Division I National Championship at Florida. The Brazilian truly had extra success in 4 begins on the PGA Tour after turning professional than 9 stars on the Korn Ferry Tour, however he at present holds no standing for subsequent yr. He should put collectively at the very least a strong spherical Sunday to remain in the high 40 to earn Korn Ferry standing.

Erik Compton

T19, -3

Compton has been a feel-good story on the PGA Tour as the recipient of two coronary heart transplants, however he hasn’t held a Tour card since 2016. He performed simply two PGA Tour occasions this previous season in the Dominican Republic and Fort Worth, however has an opportunity for an entire lot extra with spherical tomorrow.

Jack Hirsh

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