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There was excessive drama because the Korn Ferry Tour Championship got here all the way down to the wire Sunday in Indiana.
Not simply to see who would wind up with the trophy, but additionally to search out out who would seize the coveted 30 PGA Tour playing cards that had been up for grabs for the highest finishers within the season-long factors standings.
Coming into the KFT’s ultimate occasion, 17 gamers knew they had been PGA Tour sure by their play all through the season, which left 13 spots nonetheless to be decided.
By the point the ultimate putt dropped, a kind of unallocated playing cards went to this week’s winner, Braden Thornberry, who put collectively a final-round six-under 66 in powerful circumstances at French Lick to storm from six photographs again to begin the day and win by one.
Thornberry, the 2017 NCAA Champion and former top-ranked newbie, got here into the week 51st within the standings, that means a win was important for him to maneuver on. The identical was true for Doc Redman, who led for a lot of the day, however doubled the fifteenth gap and got here up quick, denying him a return to the PGA Tour.
The ultimate group additionally determined who would get the thirtieth card, however not directly. Brian Campbell, who already had his Tour card locked up this week, confronted a six-foot par putt on the final to safe himself a three-way tie for second with Redman and Alistair Docherty.
Miss it? The ensuing two-way tie for second would have meant Docherty earned sufficient factors to complete thirtieth on the factors checklist and get his PGA Tour card. Make it? Then Docherty doesn’t earn sufficient factors from the three-way tie and Noah Goodwin, who birdied his ultimate gap to complete T44, slides again into the highest 30.
Campbell drained the putt, making the dream for Goodwin, however spelling heartbreak for Docherty.
Take a look at the total checklist of Korn Ferry Tour graduates under, so as of their end on the Korn Ferry Tour factors checklist.
2023 Korn Ferry Tour graduates
1. Matt McCarty
2. Max McGreevy
3. Frankie Capan III
4. Steven Fisk
5. Tim Widing
6. Taylor Dickson
7. Brian Campbell
8. Harry Higgs
9. Thomas Rosenmueller
10. William Mouw
11. Quade Cummins
12. Ryan Gerard
13. Kevin Roy
14. Cristobal Del Photo voltaic
15. Kevin Velo
16. Braden Thornberry
17. Paul Peterson
18. Isaiah Salinda
19. Karl Vilips
20. Jackson Suber
21. Jeremy Paul
22. Mason Andersen
23. John Pak
24. Kris Ventura
25. Kaito Onishi
26. Ricky Castillo
27. Trevor Cone
28. Danny Walker
29. Aldrich Potgieter
30. Noah Goodwin