In the ‘offseason’ of Pro Golf, something rare appears every weekend

As soon as the calendar slides in September, PGA Tour, and for the most part, Pro Golf as a whole, goes half sleepy. Outside the Ryder Cup, the FedEx Cup Fall series and the extension of the end of the DP World Tour’s Dubai race, Golf gets a backwardness in the fall. That is why PGA Tour transferred FedEx Cup Play off to August, so it would not conflict with football, and it gives its members time to have an “offseason” before rolling in January in January.

But Pro Golf does not go completely cold in “offseason”, there is only another purpose for those in the arena. Next to an arena that gives something rare in Pro Golf.

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The concentration for the most of the most that will increase during October and November – whether in PGA Tour or Korn Ferry Tour – is not about filling their bank accounts or reaching the peak for large championships. It’s about keeping the dream lively.

This tracking is draining. Climbing the professional stairs is exhausting, and the resistance needed to stay there is something they have few.

Autumn in PGA Tour is about players trying to stay or get on the right side of the Top-100 bubble to keep their status completely excluded. You will have a small piece of players who make joy to enter the first two events of 2026’s signature, and some of the best players can start here or there.

But for the most part, it is About Lanto Griffinwho ended the third in the Procore Championship after two sons – Scottie Scheffler and Ben Griffin – who were just there to stay cool for Ryder Cup. One victory would mean Griffin, who has a career victory and entered the fall in 142 in the rankings, would be excluded for two years. Instead, Griffin now sits at 105 after a lost cut in Sanderson and has only a few weeks to throw five drops.

It has to do with Steven28-year-old PGA Tour who arrived at Jackson, Mississippi, with a Top-10 finish in his resume and sitting well outside the 100 first.

With just a few weeks left to win his card for 2026, fisc fiscked back 65s to throw into the quarrel and then shot a Sunday 64 to track Garrick Higgo Pretend his first PGA Tour victory And the peace of mind that comes with it.

“Self -confidence. Grit. I know I’m good enough. I thought I could do it,” said an emotional fiscal after his victory.

“It’s an eternal dream, honestly. Sometimes you doubt yourself. I don’t know. I knew I could do it. And having a job safety is very beautiful. It’s been a long, hard year.”

A few hours before the fiscal went to wash his concerns, a former PGA Tour member placed the pedal on Sunday to breathe some lives in his career.

Doc Redman’s last start of PGA Tour came to 2023 RSM Classic. He was closely lost by regaining his card at Korn Ferry’s Tour Tour Championship of last year. But the 2025 season was difficult for Redman in KFT. Clemson’s former star ended up the 138th on the list of points and has no status next season if he does not get through school Q. But Redman entered the Sanderson farms, winning a three-way off-moving play and then shot 65-67 on the weekend to end up in a tie on the ninth place. This Top-10 conclusion takes Redman at the Utah Championship bank, where he can continue to accumulate non-member points, winning that KFT starts next season.

Redman needed a bird on 18 Sunday to ensure his Top-10 completion. He hit his 330 car, fasted his approach to seven meters, and rolled into the bird hit to mark his ticket to Utah. Even as his climb stumbles, Redman’s self -esteem remains intact.

“So there are actually no bad results if I haven’t had a bad attitude or something like that,” Redman said on Saturday to stay positive even When professional golf becomes difficult. “So you know. I think I’m good enough, so I just believed about it.”

Tracking is even more intense this time in Korn Ferry Tour, with players who need to end up at 75 balls on the list of points to guarantee their status for the coming season or otherwise leave Adrift in the Pro Golf World. The best interruption-75 takes place after the Compliance Solutions Championship, which is the third match of the Korn Ferry tour final.

First, we go to Cole Hammer.

The Texas product entered the week no. 79 In the ranking of points and needed a strong last round to secure his place in the final. With his working -line status, Hammer fired a 64 without Bogey to enter the Top 15 and end in no. 72 in the ranking. With his KFT privileges provided for 2026, Hammer can extract.

“I’m so relieved, honestly,” Hammer said after his round. “But more proud of the way I fought. I really had to rely on my experience from last year all day. I knew I was in a similar position (like last year), and it’s not easy.

“I could have looked calm from the outside, but it felt as if there were bumps inside me. I was buzzing so much. Hard hard to stay over a three -foot in the last hole thinking, ‘Ok, if I do this I will have a job. If I do not, I will not do it.” … There is so much ultimate about these last two events that other events do not have.

Among others who withdrew Sunday at the patriotic club in Owasso, Oklahoma, was Blades Brown. The 18-year-old phenomenon chose in the college to give up to return the pros. He started the season without status and had to end up in the first 75 places to have the full status of the game in KFT.

Brown played his last seven holes in three to end up in a tie for the 43rd and entered the Korn Ferry tournament at 75.

“I can’t explain or put in words the feeling I was feeling in those last two holes,” Brown Golf Channel told after his round. “I remember that my hands were trembling at No. 17, and I was like, ‘The hell, blades? You have a sharp wedge in hand. Just hit where you want.” I was an unreal pressure and learned a lot about myself. “

James Nicholas entered the 78th week at the point, but fired 23rd at the third place and the safe at 75 ball. Samuel Anderson played his last four holes in two under him crossing from 76 to 72 and avoiding a trip to Q.

In professional golf, dream is always right there. Onhe a swing away, a round away, one feeling away. The fall is about those who follow it – still enraging against the dying light.

Some are successful. They continue to climb using inertia and self -esteem as their fuel. Others are left to continue the pursuit, knowing that they have chosen a pursuit that cannot be falsified. The only way to get the ball into the hole.

“I think the correct answer is let the chips fall where they can focus on what you can control,” said Sam Ryder, who sits at No. 111 in FedEx Fall. “I can’t control how people play. Really I just know-really is more process oriented things. I’m very aware of where I am. You know it all year. You get a single text every week that tells you exactly where you are in FedEx. You can’t hide from it.”

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