Jackson Koivun will not be a full -time member PGA Tour until at least next summer but 20-year-old amateur It has passed this summer getting acquainted with its future tournament. Star Auburn, who has already won his PGA Tour card through the accelerated PGA University, has played in six PGA Tour events this season and made five cuts, including a T6 conclusion in the Isco championship and a T11 in John Deere Classic.
Koivun bypass Western amateur this week in favor of taking it to The WynDham Championship At Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina, which is the final season of the regular PGA Tour season before the FedEx Cup Play starts next week in Memfis.
Koivun made the cut and then fired with five under 65 on Saturday to move within 10 first in the manager’s table. But with so much in the field Scratch and clawing to find a way within 70s of money To extend their season, Koivun is looking at another side of the tourist life in Greensboro – the desperate side.
“Judah is just stressful,” Koivun told Amanda Balionis of CBS after the round of how otherwise this week in Greensboro is while boys fight for their jobs. “Playing along with some of these guys who are playing for a job, playing to continue playing this year is definitely opening up. Just something gets.”
After this week, only the first 70 places in the ranking will progress to FedEx St. Jew in Memfis. The first 50 after the next week will move to the BMW championship. This ticket for the second Play -offit event also comes with a ticket for all signature events next season.
There are even more than one place in the first 70 places online this week in Greensboro.
With PGA Tour by reducing its number of fully excluded players from 125 to 100 next year, Players like Joel Dahmenwho entered the week off the top 100, is looking for a good conclusion to push them on the other side of that fully excluded line as the autumn FedEx Cup schedule approaches. The Top-100 interruption will not take place until after the RSM Classic in November, but a strong conclusion in Wyndham, even if it does not move within the first 70s, it will go a long way.
Koivun is taking a dose of PGA Tour’s reality this week.
Many players who won their card last year, such as Matt McCarty and William Mouw, are now likely to go in a fall season that will be full of pressure while they struggle to hold on their PGA Tour card. Meanwhile, the benefits like Max Homa and Adam Scott, who are excluded but will lose the Play off -et, now will have to rely on exceptions from the sponsor to enter the signature events or try to play their way through the Aon swing system.
Koivun has pushed his PGA Tour card for a year as he goes back to Auburn for his new season. But that will be his life quite soon.
Has been one, ‘So that’s what you want?’ Weeks for Koivun.
And while despair in Greensboro has been a little annoying, the number 1 amateur in the worldly amateur golf ranking is still relying on a professional and understanding his dream.
“Yes,” Koivun said with a smile when asked if he still wanted the life of the tournament.
He will get there soon, and the WynDham championship has given him a necessary view of the other side of the coin and a meaning how difficult things can take in PGA Tour when things don’t go on your way.
