Three Canadians have earned 2024 Korn Ferry Tour membership following the ultimate spherical of the PGA TOUR Q-College offered by Korn Ferry on Monday in Ponte Vedra, Fla.
Sudarshan Yellamaraju of Mississauga, Ont. completed T14 at 4-under. Étienne Papineau of St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, Que. completed T38 at 1-under, and Myles Creighton of Digby, N.S. completed T45 at even par. They may be a part of fellow Canadian Wil Bateman on the Korn Ferry Tour to begin the 2024 season.
Yellamaraju recorded rounds of 71-69-68-68-276 to earn Korn Ferry Tour membership for subsequent season after efficiently making his method via each second stage and last stage of Q-College.
Papineau beforehand earned 2024 Korn Ferry Tour membership by ending fourth total within the 2023 Fortinet Cup standings on the PGA TOUR Canada (now PGA TOUR Americas). Papineau’s T38 end at Q-College with rounds of 74-67-68-70-279 improves his Korn Ferry Tour standing for the approaching season.
Creighton additionally beforehand earned his 2024 membership by ending second on the PGA TOUR Latinoamerica (now PGA TOUR Americas) season level rankings. Creighton shot rounds of 70-68-72-70-280 to complete contained in the lower line of gamers who’re awarded Korn Ferry Tour playing cards via Q-school and enhance his standing for 2024 as properly.
Three different Canadians had been competing in Ponte Vedra at last stage together with, Stuart Macdonald who completed at 7-over, Thomas Giroux at 9-over and Jared Du Toit at 10-over. They may have conditional standing on the Korn Ferry Tour for 2024.
Harrison Endycott of Australia completed atop the leaderboard at 15-under, People Hint Cowe (11-under) and Brian Hale Jr. (9-under) completed second and third, whereas Raul Pereda of Mexico and Hayden Springer of the USA completed tied for fourth at 8-under to earn their 2024 PGA TOUR playing cards.
The highest 5 gamers and ties earned their full standing for 2024 on the PGA TOUR. The subsequent 40 finishers and ties earned exempt standing via a number of reshuffles of the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour season, with the primary 25 finishers and ties being topic to the third reshuffle (12 assured begins), and any remaining finishers throughout the class being topic to the second reshuffle (eight assured begins).
This marked the primary time since 2012 that PGA TOUR playing cards had been awarded in the course of the Last Stage of PGA TOUR Q-College. The sphere of 168-players performed two rounds at TPC Sawgrass’ Dye’s Valley Course and two rounds at Sawgrass Nation Membership. The ultimate spherical was initially scheduled for Sunday however was postponed resulting from heavy rain in northern Florida.