Alejandro Tosti final week on the Magnit Championship.
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Alejandro Tosti, a professional who has secured PGA Tour standing for subsequent yr, was pressured to withdraw from this week’s event on the Tour’s developmental collection due to what officers are terming solely as a “disciplinary matter.”
According to a release on Friday, particulars of what occurred and any associated self-discipline for Tosti could be dealt with internally. When requested by GOLF.com, a communications official stated there could be no extra remark, and that nobody could be made accessible to communicate.
This week, Tosti was enjoying the Korn Ferry Tour’s Boise Open, the primary of 4 postseason occasions on the collection a stage beneath the PGA Tour, and on Thursday, he shot a first-round 67. It is unknown if Tosti will play on the Korn Ferry Tour’s subsequent event, the Simmons Bank Open in three weeks.
Tosti, a 27-year-old professional from Rosario, Argentina, has performed in 4 PGA Tour occasions since turning professional in 2018, and he has locked up standing for 2024 by way of his rating this yr on the Korn Ferry Tour’s season-long factors standings. In that collection, he has 9 prime 10s this season, together with a victory earlier this month on the Pinnacle Bank Championship in Omaha, Nebraska, that secured his PGA Tour privileges.
The launch on Tosti was simply 113 phrases. It reads as follows:
“Korn Ferry Tour member Alejandro Tosti was withdrawn from the Albertsons Boise Open introduced by Chevron following the primary spherical of competitors, due to a disciplinary matter. Tosti entered the week ranked fourth on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List.
“Per PGA Tour coverage, the main points of the difficulty and any associated disciplinary motion might be dealt with internally.
“Tosti, 27, has a win and eight other top-10s this season and has been declared ‘TOURBound’ by earning enough points to ensure his PGA Tour card for 2024. The top 30 on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List after the Korn Ferry Tour Championship on Oct. 5-8 earn PGA Tour cards for the 2024 season.”
Earlier this season, Tosti and 5 different execs had been concerned in a guidelines incident involving a shuttle on the Korn Ferry Tour’s Lecom Suncoast Classic. There, the grouping of Tosti, Mason Andersen and Wilson Furr, and the grouping of Ashton Van Horne, Boo Weekley and Jared Wolfe took unauthorized shuttle rides from a inexperienced to a tee field on Friday at Lakewood National Golf Club in Lakewood Ranch, Fla., and every had been docked two strokes due to a violation of Model Local Rule G-6.
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Notably, for that week, a shuttle had been licensed from 7 inexperienced to 8 tee, and from the vary to beginning tees. In a later interview with Golf Channel, Tosti stated as he walked off the 18th inexperienced on his manner to enjoying the first gap (he began on the again 9), he observed a volunteer sitting in the identical shuttle they rode in earlier to the tenth tee.
“I asked the guy, ‘Are you giving rides to the first tee?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, jump in,’” Tosti informed Golf Channel. “I know that I cannot jump in a cart that is not official, but this was almost like organized. It almost seemed like someone sent this guy to give us a ride. It was ready, waiting for us to walk off the green and give us a ride to the first tee, and that guy apparently was not supposed to be there.”
A number of months later, after his victory in Omaha, in entrance of followers, Tosti talked about what the victory meant to him, and the Korn Ferry Tour’s social media staff captured and shared the moment via a 50-second video.
“I’m by myself in this country and I have my family following from Argentina, and they’re very proud of what I did today,” he stated within the video. “So I need to thank them for all that they’ve achieved. For all that they’ve achieved.
“For all that they’ve done since I was 6 years old. And I told them that I wanted to play golf when nobody in my family played golf, and they have supported me and been with me even in the toughest times. So I really want to thank them, and that’s it. Thank you, everybody.”
