How One Swing Propelled A Pro To Keep His Tour Card
The end of the PGA Tour regular season is always intriguing when seeing how close players are to either keep a Tour card or exasperatingly lose it. Yesterday’s Wyndham Championship was the last regular Tour event for players to hopefully stay within the magical top-125 to earn full status into the next campaign.
No one seized the moment in more dramatic fashion than Martin Flores. He jumped from 139 to 118 after scorching the course with a 63–including an ace on the 16th and birdie on 18.
“I didn’t know I could jump that high and I’m not even jumping that high.”
This ace helped Martin Flores get into the 125 of the #FedExCup! pic.twitter.com/TL6CkFuYN0
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 21, 2017
“I was very aware of [where I was in the standings],” Flores said. “I knew exactly what I needed to do, especially when I was at the 15th fairway, the par-5. I knew I needed two more and I was fortunate to get three. I’m extremely happy.”
“Lot of hard work,” he answered. “You know, just lot of blood, sweat and tear. And, you know, this game will beat you down sometimes, and you’ll have a lot of struggles, and when things finally go how you envision in your mind, you see all your hard work payoff.
“And, especially, I think the emotions really come from the sacrifices your family makes – traveling all the time or being away, missing a lot of things. And to have them see it – I’m sure they saw it – it was awesome.”
Others finishing above the 125th level include (based on FedEx points):
Rory Sabbatini 148 to 122
Harold Varner III 138 to 123
Vaughn Taylor 119 to 124
JJ Henry 134 to 125
Ending oh so close
Zac Blair 120 to 126
Shane Lowry 145 to 127
David Hearn 121 to 128
Sam Saunders 127 to 129
Seamus Power 123 to 130
Daniel Summerhays 124 to 131
They’ll still have conditional status staying above 150th will need help or play well in the Fall Series to improve their status.
