Gordon’s emotional involvement in Rocket Classic told greater greater story

The last two holes of the second round of Friday in 2025 Rocket Classic may have been the most important of Will Gordon’s career.

This is not hyperbole.

28-year-old Pro play in Detroit Golf Club At the end of the end of a major medical exception, he got due to an inflamed vertebra matter that caused the tension of the ulnar nerve down his elbow. With his great medicine after this week, Gordon had to cut the cut in order to keep his PGA Tour membership. He reached the 17th on Friday knowing that his future was dependent on balance. He had to make the last two holes and receive help from the rest of the players on the field to cut and maintain conditional status.

The 17th Gordon Zogu and then placed a six-foot bird blow to 18 to reach six sub-parpan. After holding the stack, Gordon gave a fist pump, and then the emotions began to pour from it. He had done everything he could, but he would have to wait over two hours to find out if his efforts were good enough to keep membership.

“It’s not in the back of my mind. It’s on the front,” Gordon said after the round. “But that’s why you play is to put yourself in moments like this, we hope to win golf tournaments. But I’m really proud of myself for executing under that pressure.

“I was just proud to keep my head in it, fighting to the end,” Gordon said later. “That’s what I do. It wasn’t the most beautiful type of the last three, but I always fight. I’m just proud of that, that’s the kind of I am.”

Gordon waited two hours with two plus to see what his professional golf fate would be. The yo-yoed cut line between six and seven underneath, and then Gordon took some vacation, the gods of golf seemingly rewarding his war.

Zach Johnson with three feet from four feet in the 17th hole. Brandt Singeker Double Bogyed Last, and then Michael Kim tainted his latest hole to push the cut in six under and to throw Gordon’s career a necessary life protector.

“After I left yesterday, I didn’t look at my phone,” Gordon said on Saturday after shooting another three under 69 to move on nine under the tournament. “I mean, from what I heard from my friends, and Zach Johnson called me and gave me the full conclusion of what happened and just called to encourage me, which I really appreciated. Yes, it was a very wild a few hours, so I’m just super thankful that all worked.

When Gordon finishes his round on Sunday, he will win the 0.644 points needed to maintain conditional membership and be able to play the rest of the season and outside NOS. 126-150 categories.

So far this season, Gordon has lost nine from 13 cuts, but sits at 136 in FedEx Cup thanks to Top-10 conclusions at Farmers Insurance Open and CJ Cup Byron Nelson. To maintain full membership, he must do it in the top 100 places from RSM Classic, the final event of the autumn schedule.

Gordon knows that he still has an uphill climb, but a quick run, the greatest of his career, has given him a life. It depends on the one to make the most of the fruits of his emotional load.

“This is a game to get what you deserve, and unfortunately I haven’t played as well as you, you know, give yourself more breathing rooms,” Gordon said on Friday. “It is a kind of madness that is a kind of descending to this, but again, you get what you earn in this game and that is what I won yourself. Just try to use it as a motive for everything that comes next.”