Corey Conners secured a sixth successive look at The Open by claiming the only real qualifying place on supply within the Arnold Palmer Invitational offered by Mastercard.
A final-round 71 that featured 17 pars and a vital birdie on the sixteenth was sufficient for Canada’s Conners to complete third within the PGA TOUR occasion at Bay Hill, a part of The Open Qualifying Sequence.
That was in the end sufficient to guide a return to The Open – and the scene of his Championship debut in 2019 – as event winner Russell Henley and runner-up Collin Morikawa have been already exempt.
Conners will now intention to enhance on his finest Open end so far, a T15 end at Royal St George’s in 2021.
