Multiple winners among PGA Tour Q-School entrants

The chase for the cards has come down to four days on the First Coast.

The PGA Tour Q-School, presented by Korn Ferry, will be Dec. 12-15 with the field competing in two rounds at the TPC Sawgrass Dye’s Valley and two at the Sawgrass Country Club.

Among the veterans who have had to return to the qualifying process are multiple Tour winners Nick Watney, Sean O’Hair and Martin Laird, other Tour winners such as Lanto Griffin of Ponte Vedra Beach, Austin Cook, Tyler Duncan, Tommy Gainey and Garrick Higgo; and rising stars Christo Lamprecht, Pierceson Coody and Sam Bennett.

The tournament rounds at Dye’s Valley are open to the public. The free tickets must be downloaded by visiting the Q-School ticketmaster page at am.ticketmaster.com/pgnt/buy/buy2024.

Local players will take their best shots

The Jacksonville area will be heavily represented in the Q-School field:

• Travis Trace, a Sandalwood High and University of North Florida graduate, made a 15-foot birdie putt on the final hole of a second-stage qualifier at Kinderlou Forest in Valdosta, Ga., to clinch the final spot from that event. He was making his fifth attempt in a second-stage qualifier to reach the Q-School finals.
• Nick Gabrelcik, the first three-time ASUN Player of the Year at UNF, earned a Korn Ferry Tour card through the 2024 PGA Tour University college rankings. He made six of 13 cuts and finished 118th on the final points list.
• Raul Pereda, a Jacksonville University graduate, earned his PGA Tour card at the 2023 Q-School. However, he made only four of 25 cuts and had to return to second-stage qualifying. He tied for fourth at the Valencia, Calif., qualifier.
• Marcus Plunkett played high school golf at Nease and Ponte Vedra and then earned an appointment to Army West Point, where he was the Patriot League Player of the Year in 2014. He finished solo fourth in the Dothan, Ala., qualifier.
• Two area residents who played golf in the Big Ten, Sam Anderson and Luke Guthrie, were the medalists in their second-stage qualifiers. Anderson, who played at Wisconsin, won the Valdosta, Ga., qualifier by six shots and Guthrie, who played at Illinois, won by two at the Hammock Beach qualifier.
• Other area residents in the Q-School field are Tyson Alexander, Derek Bard, Cody Blick, Adrien Dumont de Chassart, Doc Redman, Thomas Walsh, Tom Wilkinson and Carl Yuan.

PGA Tour Q-School presented by Korn Ferry field

Players who qualified directly to Q-School

Tyson Alexander, Matthew Anderson, Matt Atkins.

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