PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Lanto Griffin holed a 40-foot putt for eagle on his first gap that despatched him to a 7-under 63 within the closing spherical of Q-school, the chief of six gamers who earned PGA Tour playing cards for subsequent yr.
Griffin was the medalist at 9-under 271, however all that mattered was being among the many high 5 and ties to get full standing because the PGA Tour goes by sharp modifications that embrace smaller fields beginning in 2025.
Hayden Buckley (67) and former world No. 1 newbie Takumi Kanaya of Japan (69) additionally made it by. Kanaya holed 8-foot par putts on his final two holes.
They had been adopted at 4-under 276 by Alejandro Tosti of Argentina (66), Will Chandler (66) and Matthew Riedel (72).
Chandler appeared to be working out of time till he shot 30 on the again 9 on the Dye Valley course on the TPC Sawgrass. That included a 45-foot eagle putt on the sixteenth gap that paved the way in which for a PGA Tour card.
Riedel had his personal nervous moments. He was proper on the cutoff when his drive on the powerful par-4 seventeenth turned left and hopped down the financial institution towards the water. However the thick Bermuda saved it dry and Riedel managed to avoid wasting par.
On the ultimate gap, Riedel pushed his tee shot removed from the water on the left. He got here up wanting the inexperienced and chipped 4 ft previous the cup. The par putt for his card narrowly fell on the left aspect of the cup.
Alistair Docherty, tied for the lead going into the fourth and closing spherical, did not make a birdie till the seventeenth gap. He wanted another to get his PGA Tour card for the primary time however his strategy sailed over the inexperienced. He shot 73 and missed by one shot.
Gamers who did not earn playing cards can have numerous ranges of standing on the Korn Ferry Tour.
