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This week, in Black Desert Championship, Kevin Streelman made the PGA Tour cut no. 301, a week after making the PGA Tour cut no. 300, and people have been asking him to reminisce about PGA Tour No. 1.
He is happy for. He remembers it well.
“It was the ’05 Milwaukee Open at Brown Deer Park,” Streelman said this week. “I was on a mini-tour. I Monday-qualified. Talk about a nervous Friday afternoon round because I had nothing to my name. I was living out of my mom’s car, in my parents’ basement, just getting around the country, trying to play mini-tour events, and on Monday I went down there and made a cut, which I knew was about $10,000, which would pay for my Q-school and pretty much Dakota’s tour. It was a very significant thing for me.
“I think I finished 25th and I made about $25,000, and I was like, that paid for the rest of the year and my entry fees, and I think it actually paid for Courtney’s engagement ring.”
Mom’s car? What kind of car was it?
“My mom had a Nissan Altima,” Streelman said. “It was a 1993 Nissan Altima. It was a little tight in the back seat.
“But these are wonderful memories.”
How many miles were on it?
“I put about 250,000 on my mom,” Streelman said, “and then I got a second one and put about 200,000 miles on that one, and then I had just bought a new Camry in my fifth year on the mini-tour and got the card my PGA Tour and traded it in for a Porsche 911 after my first year on the PGA Tour.”
Where did he shower and such?
“Yeah, Motel 6, Super 8,” Streelman said. “It was all I could do.”
Here, a reporter noticed that Streelman was smiling as he told the tales. He was asked if the trip from PGA Tour cut No. 1 on the PGA Tour No. 301 was difficult.
It was, he said, and, somehow, it wasn’t.
“It’s overwhelming, but it’s like — there’s like a beauty, too, where you’ve got nowhere to go but up,” Streelman said. “I was lucky to have a degree from a good university, but I wanted to come out here. There was no other choice. There was no second option.
“I think when you have a second option, you don’t get the first option. I really looked at it that way. Whatever I have to do, if I have to work at Kierland, if I have to work at Whisper Rock, if I have to substitute-teach at my high school, which I’ve done all those things, then I’ll do it to save money to give yourself a chance. Then when I get the chance, you’ve got to take it, and I was lucky enough to do it on my sixth try in ’07 at Q-school and I’m out here 17 years later.”
With that, below is the complete payout breakdown for this week’s Black Desert Championship played at Black Desert Resort. The total purse is $7.5 million.
How much each player won in the Black Desert Championship 2024
1. Matt McCarty $1.35 million
2. Stephan Jaeger $817,500
T3. Lucas Glover $442,500
Kevin Streelman $442,500
5. Matti Schmid $307,500
T6. Harris English $262,500
Joe Highsmith $262,500
P8. Nick Hardy $219,375
Lee Hodges $219,375
Henrik Norlander $219,375
T11. Patrick Rodgers $137,675
Seamus Power $137,675
Tom Whitney $137,675
Grayson Sigg $137,675
Ben Griffin $137,675
Carson Young $137,675
Nico Echavarria $137,675
Carl Yuan $137,675
Beau Hossler $137,675
Max McGreevy $137,675
T21. Wesley Bryan $81,750
Rico Hoey $81,750
Joseph Bramlett $81,750
Chad Ramey $81,750
T25. Tyler Duncan $52,912.50
Mac Meissner $52,912.50
Ryo Hisatsune $52,912.50
Trey Mullinax $52,912.50
JJ Spaun $52,912.50
Alex Smalley $52,912.50
Nick Taylor $52,912.50
Doug Pin $52,912.50
Adam Svensson $52,912.50
Kurt Kitayama $52,912.50
T35. Will Gordon $37,350
Chris Kirk $37,350
Daniel Berger $37,350
Kevin Tway $37,350
Harry Hall $37,350
T40. Sam Ryder $31,125
Philip Knowles $31,125
Joel Dahmen $31,125
T43. Patton Kizzire $26,625
Alejandro Tosti $26,625
Erik van Rooyen $26,625
T46. Wilson Furr $20,137.50
KH Lee $20,137.50
Justin Suh $20,137.50
Ryan Fox $20,137.50
Cameron Champ $20,137.50
Jacob Bridgeman $20,137.50
Chan Kim $20,137.50
Ben Knowles $20,137.50
T54. Lanto Griffin $17,400
Scott Piercy $17,400
Tyson Alexander $17,400
Raul Pereda $17,400
In Reavie $17,400
Trace Crowe $17,400
60. Erik Barnes $16,875
T61. Nate Lashley $16,650
Roger Sloan $16,650
63. Norman Xiong $16,425
T64. Chesson Hadley $16,200
SH Kim $16,200
66. Zac Blair $15,975
67. Vince Whaley $15,825
68. Alexander Bjork $15,675
69. Dylan Wu $15,525