Bryson DeChambeau will be playing on the PGA Tour this coming season.
DeChambeau, the sharp young man with the Ben Hogan-style cap, clinched his playing privileges outside Cleveland at Canterbury Golf Club on Sunday when he won the DAP Championship on the second hole of a playoff.
The top 25 money winners from the Web.com Playoffs will earn cards and DeChambeau locked his up with the win.
“I can’t believe I did it,” said DeChambeau, who tried to earn enough money the last half of the season but failed in his attempt. Still, he was eligible for the Web.com playoffs and he didn’t waste any time. “I’m so ecstatic. Most important, it was remembering 9-11 and I wore red, white and blue,” DeChambeau said of his victory.
It took a birdie on the first playoff hole to eliminate two of his three opponents then on the second hole, a par was good enough to bump Andres Gonzales.
A big name who didn’t fare quite as well was Brit Andrew “Beef” Johnston.
The Beef shot even par and finished in a tie for 28th and will have to do a lot better the next two weeks if he wants to join DeChambeau.
8 Comments
beege
he is such a unique player, I very much look forward to seeing his career develop. While I disagree with the PGA Tour naming these last four events “the web.com tour finals” the concept is right on. the most proven players get cards.
I have expressed my dislike to the tour because it is confusing and lacks consumer kindness meaning these tournaments have nothing to do with the web.com tour they are pga tour qualifying events as 1/2 of the field are not even web.com tour players and none of the 150 eligible is playing so he can play the web.com tour next year but the PGA Tour shows again and again that their real caring the not the fans knowledge or understanding but catering to every whim of the sponsors. Tom, I asked every one of my golfing friends what the web.com tour finals was and not one could tell me. i rest my case.
Tom Edrington
My old buddy Bill Calfee is retiring as President of the Web.com Tour. They had to come up with something when they did away with the Q-School. The Q-School basically took forever, the logistics were lousy and no one really paid attention to it other than family and friends of players AT the Q-school. We saw the top 25 Web.com guys got their tour cards at the end of the season. These events afford them a chance to move higher on the priority standings that gets them into more events. Yeah, unless you are really starved for golf, you’re not going to be watching the Web.com finals on the tube. I know I won’t. As for Bryson, bright young talent but not as good as the kid from Spain — Jon Rahm — who could be the next big thing and will end up on the next European Ryder Cup team.
beege
yes to everything you are saying, except the name should really reflect the event. it is a combo of tour players who lost their cards and web.com players who failed to be one of the 25(although the 25 do play in these events another weird-o situation)—it is misnamed and the tour really does not care and that is what ticks me off.
call it what it is “PGA Tour qualifying series”. Instantly credibility and interest.
Tom Edrington
They should but they are trying like all get-out to pump up the Web.com brand, after all Web.com is paying a lot of money for that tour to be the Web.com tour.
beege
yes, i get it but their lack of compassion for the fan is blatent.
so call it “PGA Tour qualifying series presented by web.com”.
they call it “the arnold palmer invitational presented by mastercard”.
I think they just don’t care about the fan.
Tom Edrington
The PGA Tour is a sponsor-driven tour, fans will show up, they kinda take that for granted…..in order to stage all these events, they need the big-money sponsors who are willing to cough up $7 to $8 million to pay the players…..it’s amazing, the Tour puts these events on with thousands of volunteers who pay for their own uniforms, they’re over-charged for those so all it costs the tour is their on-site staff…..pretty good business model. So their attention the main thrust to it goes to schmooze these big money sponsors.
beege
i understand all of that but it still does not condone misnaming a series of tournaments that does confuse fans and is done without their regard. I protest and continue to say call it exactly what it is and respect your tour(s) and your fans. To me it shows virtually no regard for the intelligence of your fan base.
Tom Edrington
The one and only tournament that loves those who attends is The Masters, where they are not fans or spectators, they have and always will be The Patrons…..that’s why it’s the toughest ticket in all of sports!