While the golf world focuses its attention across the pond to the Open Championship (aka the British Open), right here in USA, the remaining professionals are competing in the Barbasol Championship in Nicholasville, Kentucky.
Due to the fact that many of the top pros on the PGA tour (including Justin Thomas) are competing at Royal St. George’s, several slots are open to professionals who don’t usually get the opportunity to compete on the PGA tour.
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Two Alabama alums at very different points in their career are trying to take advantage of their chance.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Cameron Young closed out a wire-to-wire win on Sunday at the AdventHealth Championship and in the process became the first player to do so since 2018 on the Korn Ferry Tour. Young topped South African Dawie van der Walt by two strokes at 19-under 269 at Blue Hills Country Club.
After Cameron Young’s triumphant breakthrough title at last week’s AdventHealth Championship, the Korn Ferry Tour proceeds to the Windy City for this week’s Evans Scholars Invitational, to be contested at The Glen Club in the Chicago metroplex.
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.