Seamus Energy wants a top-three end in The RSM Basic to retain full standing on the PGA Tour subsequent season.
The West Waterford star (38) missed a golden alternative finally week’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship to get nearer to the highest 100 who might be exempt and now finds himself in golf’s Final Likelihood Saloon, hoping for good playing cards.
Three photographs off the lead with a spherical to play final week, he bogeyed 4 of his final 5 holes to complete tied for eleventh, 5 strokes behind the winner, Adam Schenk.
He nonetheless moved as much as 129th within the FedExCup Fall standings, however whereas a three-way tie for third would now be sufficient to crack the highest 100, this week’s subject has way more energy in depth.
Headed by Ryder Cup star Harris English and former Open champion Brian Harman, 29 of the world’s high 100 might be in motion at Sea Island in comparison with simply 9 in Bermuda final week.
Energy has proven indicators just lately that his finest golf just isn’t far-off and whereas damage pressured him to withdraw after the opening spherical final yr, he was joint fourth at this week’s venue in 2021 and tied fifth in 2022.
He’s not the one Irish participant on the lookout for a grandstand end to the season.
Leona Maguire makes her fifth consecutive look within the LPGA’s season-ending, $11 million CME Group Tour Championship for the top-60 factors earners.
She made the sphere at Tiburon Golf Membership in Naples in 56th place, however with a win price a cool $4 million and sixtieth paying $55,000, the Co Cavan star has a chance to show a mean yr into an amazing one.
The purse was $4m when she banked $550,000 for her runner-up end to Lydia Ko at Tiburon in 2022, and a repeat efficiency this week could be price a cool $1 million.
On the Asian Tour, Tom McKibbin and Graeme McDowell opened with three-under 68s within the PIF Saudi Worldwide at Riyadh Golf Membership.
They have been tied for twenty eighth, six strokes behind fellow LIV Golf stars Caleb Surrat and Adrian Meronk, who shot 62s to guide by a shot from Belgium’s Thomas Pieters.
