Amateur Wyndham Clark of Highlands Ranch, the nation’s top-ranked player in college golf, and Castle Rock native Jamie Marshall earned 2017 PGA Tour Canada cards on Friday with their performances in a Q-school tournament in San Jacinto, Calif.
Clark (pictured), who will wrap up his college career at the University of Oregon in a couple of months, and Marshall tied for ninth place. The sixth- through 16th-place finishers are exempt for the first four events of the PGA Tour Canada season, then are subject to the first “re-shuffle”.
Clark, the 2010 CGA Amateur champion, was tied for the lead in San Jacinto through two rounds and carded scores of 66-69-74-72 for a 3-under-par 281 total. Marshall, a former University of Arkansas golfer, managed that same score after rounds of 71-70-69-71.
Meanwhile, Alex Gutesha, who grew up in Colorado, and Nathaniel Goddard of Fort Collins earned conditional status on PGA Tour Canada by finishing between 17th and 40th. Gutesha (71-71-73-74–289) placed 28th and Goddard (70-73-69-78–290), the 2016 CGA Match Play champion, ended up 33rd.
Last week, former University of Denver golfer Chris Gilman claimed medalist honors in the PGA Tour Canada Q-school tournament in Santee, Calif. Gilman will be exempt throughout the 2017 PGA Tour Canada season, which starts June 1.
Three more PGA Tour Canada Q-school tournaments will be held in the next two months.
— Greeley’s Edens Places Fourth in Dreamchasers Tour Event: In mini-tour action, Parker Edens of Greeley tied for fourth place on Thursday at the Dreamchasers Pro Golf Tour’s Lone Tree Championship in Chandler, Ariz.
The former Colorado State University golfer shot rounds of 69-68-69 for a 7-under-par 206 total, which left him four strokes behind winner Chris Tedesco of Gig Harbor, Wash.
Edens carded an eagle, eight birdies and a three bogeys over 54 holes.
