KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Ten months after having no status on the Korn Ferry Tour, Cameron Young will enter Sunday’s final round at the AdventHealth Championship with a chance to become the first wire-to-wire winner on Tour since 2018. After a slow start, Young birdied his final three holes for a 4-und.
Player’s Take: Chris Erwin Then and now: Chris Erwin, a 2021 Forme Tour rookie, resumed his career as a professional golfer last year after serving in the military. During his four-year Army stint, he was deployed to war-torn Syria for seven months. (Photos are courtesy of Chris Erwin) In This Article
At the Forme Tour Qualifying Tournament at Callaway Gardens Resort in Pine Mountain, Georgia, in April, contrary to conventional wisdom, Chris Erwin, at 38, was not the oldest player in the field. There was a 40-year-old who teed it up. But none of the other 93 players entered had four daughters, and none of them had his oldest daughter walking all 72 holes with him. No other player had spent any time in war-torn Syria, either, parachuting from airplanes and analyzing data for his superiors. That’s part of Erwin’s resume. From avoiding water hazards and sand traps to working around roadside hazards and booby traps overseas
Good bogey helps Schniederjans to 36-hole Callaway Gardens lead
Schniederjans’ 66, the low score of the day, came thanks to seven birdies and three bogeys. (Sara Wright/PGA TOUR)
PINE MOUNTAIN, Georgia Luke Schniederjans had a decision to make. Should he return to Georgia Tech and take his “COVID year” offered by the NCAA to college athletes because it canceled so many sports in 2020? Or should he turn pro he had already graduated, after all and go the play-for-pay route? Schniederjans chose the latter, saying, “I don’t think there was a bad decision either way.” His choice to leave Georgia Tech is paying off. Through 36 holes of the Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada’s Qualifying Tournament at Callaway Gardens’ Mountain Course, Schniederjans’ 68-66 opening two rounds puts him at 6-under, giving the Alpharetta, Georgia, resident a one-shot advantage over count ‘em six players on the tightly bunched leaderboard.