Pair of Local Golfers One Step Closer to PGA Tour Cards
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It is every golfers dream to one day get their PGA Tour card and play at the highest level of professional golf. For two local golfers, those dreams could soon become a reality.
Despite missing the cut at the season ending Cox Classic on the Web.com tour, Jupiter resident Jamie Lovemark finished 12th on the regular season money list. With the top 25 on the money list automatically securing PGA Tour cards before the playoffs even start, Lovemark has ensured at least some type of status on the PGA Tour for next season.
Lovemark won the Midwest Classic back in July and finished the regular season with a win, three top-10 finishes and six top-25 finishes. He will have an opportunity to improve on that position and even achieve fully exempt status when the Web.com playoffs get started this week.
Just north of the border, another local golfer was putting himself one step closer to a PGA Tour card as well. Tequesta resident Hugo Leon won this past weekend’s Great Waterway Classic on the Canadian Tour. A final round 67 gave him a one shot win, his first Canadian Tour victory since being sidelined with a hip injury in 2011. With the win, Leon moves to number four in the PGA Tour Canada’s Order of Merit. The top five golfers on that list at the end of the season earn Web.com Tour cards for the 2014 season.
For more information on the end of the season races on all of the PGa Tour's affiliated tours, visit www.pgatour.com.
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