PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Three former Duke men’s golf team members are taking on Q School over the next four days in northeastern Florida. Adam Long, Ryan Blaum and Julian Suri are all in the 145-player field that is competing for PGA TOUR cards for the upcoming 2024 season.
Following four rounds of play, the top five and ties earn full PGA TOUR status, while the remaining top 40 earn Korn Ferry Tour conditional status for the upcoming year.
The event, starting on Thursday morning in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., is held on two courses – Dye’s Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass and Sawgrass Country Club. Live coverage of the third and fourth rounds is available on both days from 12:30-2:30 p.m. on Peacock and from 2:30-4:30 p.m. on Golf Channel. Fans can also follow along on the live leaderboard, available here, all week long.
Long, who graduated from Duke in 2010, tees off at 8:20 a.m. on Thursday and 9:23 a.m. on Friday. Blaum, a 2006 graudate from Duke, is scheduled to tee off at 9:44 a.m. in Round 1 and at 8:30 a.m. in Round 2. Suri, the third representative of Duke in the field, graduated in 2012 and begins his Q School at 10:36 a.m. on Thursday before teeing off at 9:23 a.m. on Friday.
Designed by Pete Dye and Bobby Weed, along with player consultant and 1982 PLAYERS champion Jerry Pate, Dye’s Valley is adjacent to THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. Opened in 1987, Dye’s Valley previously hosted the Korn Ferry Tour’s Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open from 2010 through 2012, the Korn Ferry Tour Championship from 2013 through 2015, and the 2020 Korn Ferry Challenge at TPC Sawgrass, one of the first events in the Return to Golf.
Sawgrass Country Club hosted THE PLAYERS Championship on its East-West Course from 1977 through 1981. Both the East and West nines underwent major renovations from May 2013 through fall of 2015. The club also hosts the prestigious John Hayt Invitational, with its most recent medalist being Vanderbilt’s Gordon Sargent, one of the world’s top amateurs. Sawgrass Country Club is recognized as a Platinum Club of America, an honor bestowed by Club Leaders Forum since its creation in 1997, and as a Distinguished Club through BoardRoom Magazine’s team of industry specialists, which recognizes select private clubs based on member experience.
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