Tis the season at TPC Sawgrass for the Web.com Tour Championship!
As a golf aficiondo, I am very fortunate to live in Northeast Florida. Not only is TPC Sawgrass home to the PGA TOUR organization, it is also home to THE PLAYERS Championship in the Spring and the Web.com Tour Championship in the Fall. In between there is the late Summertime Junior PLAYERS Championship and of course in the Winter this is a Mecca for snowbird golfers from the north. But right now, this week at tis the season at TPC Sawgrass for the Web.com Tour Championship!
This is the Final of the Web.com Tour Finals. Hope is still alive for 25 more golfers to earn their 2015-2016 PGA TOUR cards. For World No. 1 and No. 1 on the Fed Ex Cup Points List, Jordan Spieth down to No. 125 Jeff Overton, a tour card for next year is a done deal. Breathe, relax and take a holiday until the season opener in two weeks at the Frys.com Open at Silverado CC in Napa, California.
Life size mural of Carlos Ortiz, 2014 Web.com Player of the Year, hangs in the Media Center.
For the 2015 Web.com Tour Season Winner, No. 1 on the Money List after the 21 regular season events, Patton Kizzire down to No. 25 Patrick Rodgers, their main mission is done having earned their golden 2015-2016 PGA TOUR card, same as the Top 125. Well not exactly, the 4-week Finals series is a chance to improve their ranking going into the PGA TOUR season, the best they can do is to be right there immediately following the Top 125. For full field 164-player events it might not matter but for smaller fields and invitational events with limited daylight hours it can matter a great deal. Breathe, relax and spin the wheel one more time with only upward possibilities.
In the Merry Mixup of Nos. 126 to 200 from the PGA TOUR and Nos. 26 to 75 from the Web.com Tour there are 25 additional tour cards at stake this week on Dye’s Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass. After the first three Finals events, Chex Reavie is at the top of the Finals Money List and Jhonattan Vegas is at the bottom of the additional Top 25.
Only $253.57 separates lucky now Johnny Vegas from Billy Hurley III, $641.42 from Scott Langley and $1,871.42 from Andrew Yun. The total purse this week is $1,000.000 with $180,000 to the winner, $27,000 for solo 10th place, and the last person in the money potentially winning $2,000. So if Vegas’ luck runs out and Langley makes the cut, holding all other things constant (which never happens even in engineering school with PV-nRT), Langley gets the tour card, Vegas does not.
So it will be an exciting week on the golf course, the Finals’ Final of the Qualification to earn a tour card if you will, but not the old Q-school, to see who comes through at the end. Off the course it will be another amazing week, as the pictures will attest to, for tis the season at TPC Sawgrass for the Web.com Tour Championship and the exciting conclusion of the Finals!
Wouldn’t you love to walk into the President’s Cup Library at the TPC Sawgrass Clubhouse and register with Kelli (L) and Kathy (R) as a player for the Web.com Tour Championship?
With Darling Darlene in her diner feeding the volunteers in 29 THE PLAYERS Championship, 7 PGA TOUR Championships and now 5 Web.com Tour Championships.
Players this week tend to go in and out of the front door of the Clubhouse to get to Dye’s Valley but have hopes of walking out this tunnel next May.
