{"id":2618,"date":"2018-08-20T19:26:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T19:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebureaugh.com\/addons\/thegolferonline.com\/golfer\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2018-08-20T19:26:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T19:26:26","slug":"golfer-misses-pga-tour-card-by-an-inch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/blog\/2018\/08\/20\/golfer-misses-pga-tour-card-by-an-inch\/","title":{"rendered":"Golfer misses PGA Tour card by an inch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Golf\u2019s a cruel sport, and it\u2019s even more wicked when you leave behind the majors \u2014 let\u2019s face it, almost everyone who gets near the top of the leaderboard at a major is doing just fine \u2014 and start diving deeper into golf\u2019s ranks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">This past weekend saw the final regular-season event of the Web.com Tour, the WinCo Foods Portland Open. At stake: a PGA Tour card, and some serious job security, for the players who reached the top 25 on the Web.com Tour\u2019s money list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">As you\u2019d imagine, drama abounded. Kevin Dougherty began the week in 36th place, but after playing himself into the top 5 on the leaderboard, found himself in a wrenching position: needing a birdie on the 18th hole to win. His approach came up just short, and he needed a 25-foot chip to get his card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Brutal. Just brutal. \u201cI mean it was pretty dead center, I thought. It had the line,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/watch-the-gut-wrenching-reaction-when-a-webcom-tour-pro-misses-securing-a-pga-tour-card-by-an-inch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said Dougherty, via Golf Digest<\/a>. \u201cI thought it might end up a hair short. But it just missed a hair left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">In better news: <a class=\"yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/pga\/players\/11236\/\">John Chin<\/a> started the week in 41st place on the money list, but thanks to a second-place finish, ended up in 10th, guaranteeing himself exemptions into most of the 2018-19 PGA Tour season\u2019s tournaments. His emotion after draining the final putt was obvious:<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">All is not yet lost for Dougherty, however. He now moves into the Web.com playoffs, where he\u2019s got the chance to play his way onto the big stage with a strong performance in the tour\u2019s postseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">It\u2019s not unprecedented; last year <a class=\"yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/pga\/players\/13758\/\">Keith Mitchell<\/a> had a similar 18th-hole misfire in the last tournament of the regular season \u2014 he thought he needed an eagle to advance, but only needed a birdie \u2014 and then went out and won the first playoff event. Mitchell has earned a cool $1.5 million since then, meaning there\u2019s always a chance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">\u201cI just have to keep the momentum going,\u201d Dougherty said. \u201cSame mindset, same routine, we\u2019ll get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"author Mb(4px) D(ib) \"><a class=\"author-link Td(u):h Lh(18px) Td(n) Fw(b) Fz(12px) C(#000) Mend(3px)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/author\/jay-busbee\">Jay Busbee<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"D(ib)\"><span class=\"provider Mb(4px) Pend(5px)\"><span class=\"provider-link\"><a class=\"Fz(13px) C($c-fuji-grey-l)\" href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo Sports\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golf\u2019s a cruel sport, and it\u2019s even more wicked when you leave behind the majors \u2014 let\u2019s face it, almost everyone who gets near the top of the leaderboard at a major is doing just fine \u2014 and start diving deeper into golf\u2019s ranks. This past weekend saw the final regular-season event of the Web.com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-european-golf","8":"category-featured","9":"category-golf-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}