There’s an opportunity that one participant might break his age at this week’s Sanderson Farms Championship.
Reed Hughes, a 71-year-old from Senatobia, Mississippi, earned his place within the discipline on the Nation Membership of Jackson by profitable the Gulf States E-Z-GO Part Championship final September. Hughes shot 71-68 to win by 4 photographs.
“I made some putts that I hadn’t been making,” Hughes mentioned after final 12 months’s win. “I didn’t have the yips all day like I usually do. I hit the ball very well. I missed like two greens all day. It’s by no means over till it’s over.”
Reed Hughes will tee it up on the Sanderson Farms this afternoon.
He earned his spot within the discipline by profitable the Gulf States PGA Part occasion. His ultimate spherical 68 was the perfect of the occasion by 3 and beat the sphere avg by 10.
Reed Hughes is 71 years previous.— Monday Q Data (@acaseofthegolf1) October 3, 2024
This can mark Hughes’ first PGA Tour-sanctioned begin because the 2012 Senior PGA Championship, the place he missed the reduce. Hughes has made eight profession PGA Tour begins, although has but to make a reduce. His first Tour occasion was the 1984 Danny Thomas Memphis Basic. His most up-to-date was the 2007 Zurich Basic, the place he shot 85-82.
Hughes is grouped with Parker Coody and Kevin Dougherty for the primary two rounds of the Sanderson. Dougherty ranks fourth on Tour in driving distance with a mean of 317 yards. Coody was born in 2000, 16 years after Hughes’ Tour debut.
The oldest participant to ever make a PGA Tour reduce was Sam Snead, who did so on the 1979 Producers Hanover Westchester Basic at 67 years, 2 months, 23 days previous. Jay Haas was 68 and alter when he made the reduce on the 2022 Zurich Basic, although that was a crew occasion.
Russ Cochran, 65, competed on this 12 months’s Zurich Basic.
