James Hervol

JOINED TOUR

• PGA TOUR Canada: 2021

Personal

• In 2018, worked at estimating and accounting at a construction-management company that is also one of his corporate sponsors.
• Favorite golf memory came at TPC Boston for the Deutsche Bank Championship when he was a small boy. Caught a ball that Brian Davis threw toward him. After that, he wrote a thank-you letter, and Davis sent back a signed glove.
• Always uses the same ball marker.
• Always eats or chews gum on the course.
• Is a fan of Harry Potter, "The Office," "Friends" and "Parks and Recreation."
• Volunteered for the Special Olympics during high school.

Special Interests

• Basketball, eating

Career Highlights

2022 Season

Saw action in all 10 PGA TOUR Canada tournaments, getting to the weekend four times. Lone top-10 came in the final full-field event of the season, qualifying him for the season-ending Fortinet Cup Championship. Closed the season No. 55 on the Fortinet Cup standings.

• GolfBC Championship: Four scores in the 60s in early September at Gallagher’s Canyon GC in Kelowna, British Columbia, earned him a T4 with Ryan Gerard, four shots shy of winner Noah Goodwin. The performance was huge, moving him from No. 120 in the Fortinet Cup standings when the week began into the 52nd position, securing his 2023 PGA TOUR Canada status and an invitation to the limited-field, season-ending Fortinet Cup Championship.
• PGA TOUR Canada Q-School USA East 1: Opened with a 2-over 74 then fired a pair of 69s and a second-round 68 at The Club at Weston Hills in mid-February to finish T3 with Ethan Cairns and Benjamin Shipp—good for PGA TOUR Canada status for the first half of the season.

2021 Season

Appeared in six Forme Tour tournaments, making four cuts and posting one top-25. Ended the season 85th on the Points List.

• Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada Q-School-USA East 1: Finished the event at The Club at Weston Hills tied for fifth with Raul Pereda and amateur Andrew Walker, shooting four sub-par rounds. The trio entered a playoff for the final two PGA TOUR Canada full playing positions for the first half of the season. Walker advanced when he made birdie on the first extra hole then battled Pereda on the second hole for the last position. Couldn’t match Pereda’s par. Earned conditional status.

Amateur Highlights

• Was a two-time Tri-Valley League MVP.
• Was a 2019 All-New England Player of the Year.
• Won the 2020 Providence Open.
• Was a three-time American Athletic Conference All-Academic team and was named an All-America Scholar by the Golf Coaches Association of America.

Q SCHOOL GRADUATE

• PGA TOUR Canada: 2021
• PGA TOUR Canada: 2022