Few pros players have had a wild year a year as Chandler. While a PGA Tour card and the high ranking of FedEx Cup go a lot in the guaranteed beginnings, it is not for a mass group of pro.
Get Chandler, for example. The former Golf of George returned in favor in 2021 and fought to earn some withdrawals in the best shifts. This meant that he was forced to try to qualify on Monday as much as possible, which is essentially one of the most difficult things to do in the game. And yet he did it five At times in the Korn Ferry tour last season, which gained enough point to get conditional status in that tournament for 2025.
But he did a better one, passing through the PGA Tour Q school to win his PGA Tour card for this season.
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His first two beginnings did not go well-for lost cuts-but he on Monday-qualified for WM Phoenix Open to descend a place in the field.
WM Phoenix Open has long been recognized as one of the most difficult and most competitive among the Monday Qualifier in PGA Tour.
“I was shaking well and playing aggressive, as it should on Monday, and got some flags and hit a lot of driver,” Chandler said in this week’s episode of this week Golf Podcast. “Maybe a little more aggressive than a four-day event. When I was finished, I was like, oh, I don’t know if it will keep up. You never know in those things. “
Chandler finished seven under the Pinnacle Peak Country Club, but still had several groups in the course. He realized that someone would enter the eight under eight and he would probably take a place in a play off at best. He cut and hit the balls and wrapped the shocks for about an hour. Then he discovered: He was inside.
His week became better, too. He fired four consecutive rounds in the 1960s and played the last day in the fourth group in the last, along with World no. 1 Scottie Scheffler and Cameron Young. Chandler shot 66 for the lower round in that trio and threw in a tie for the sixth – and took a $ 310,500 fee at home.
It can also be the answer to a vague question of trivia on the road. When The last set of PGA Tour changes Enter into force in 2026, the WM Phoenix Open will be one of the events reduced from 132 players to 120, and those 120 players will no longer have Monday qualifiers.
A tradition in Phoenix that began in 1948 will be over. But one of the last men for Monday-qualified won a Top-10 from his opportunity.
“I’m leaving a little happier than I did my first two events,” Chandler said after his last round in Phoenix. “I’m obviously happy with the week, but I’m excited to go back to work and get home. I have a lot that can improve for sure.”
