Monday qualifiers: Sanderson Farms Championship
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CROMWELL, CT - JUNE 22: Chip McDaniel plays a shot on the fourth hole during the third round of the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands on June 22, 2019 in Cromwell, Connecticut. (Photo by Stan Badz/PGA TOUR)
A quick look at the four players who Monday qualified for this week’s Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Mississippi. The qualifier was conducted at Deerfield Golf Club in Canton, Mississippi (note: Monday scores in parentheses):
STEPHAN JAEGER (64)
Age: 30
Hometown: Chattanooga, Tennessee (Germany)
Alma mater: Chattanooga
PGA TOUR starts: 56
Cuts made: 28
Best finish: T13, 2018 Quicken Loans National
Notes: Finished T14 at last year’s Sanderson Farms Championship. … Played on the PGA TOUR the past two seasons, finishing 165th in the 2018 FedExCup and 152nd last season. … Has nine top-25s in 56 career starts. … The first player to shoot 58 in Korn Ferry Tour history. … Accomplished the feat at the 2016 Ellie Mae Classic at TPC Stonebrae. … Shot 65-64-63 in the final three rounds to post 30-under 250 and win by seven. … Broke the Korn Ferry Tour’s 18-, 36-, 54- and 72-hole scoring records that week. … Owns four Korn Ferry Tour wins, most recently at the 2018 Knoxville Open.
CHIP McDANIEL (66)
Age: 23
Hometown: Manchester, Kentucky
Alma mater: Kentucky
PGA TOUR starts: 9
Cuts made: 7
Best finish: T5, Corales Puntacana Club & Championship
Notes: Made eight starts on the PGA TOUR last season despite not having any status, making six cuts. … Monday qualified three times last season, tied with Corey Conners for the most last season. … Finished last season with 82 non-member FedExCup, falling 13 points short of qualifying for the Korn Ferry Tour Finals. … Started his season by Monday qualifying for the Corales, where he shot a final-round 63 to finish fifth and get into the following week’s Valero Texas Open (T71). … Also Monday qualified for the Wells Fargo Championship (MC) and Travelers Championship (T43). … Advanced through sectional qualifying for the U.S. Open, finishing 78th at Pebble Beach before taking a red-eye to get to the Travelers qualifier in Connecticut. … Received sponsor exemptions into the Rocket Mortgage Classic (MC), Barbasol Championship (68th) and Barracuda Championship (73rd). … Lost a 5-for-2 playoff at last week’s Monday qualifier for A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier. … Won the 2013 PGA Junior Championship over PGA TOUR player Sam Burns. … Was a first-team All-State basketball player in high school.
ADAM SVENSSON (66)
Age: 25
Hometown: Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Alma mater: Barry University
PGA TOUR starts: 31
Cuts made: 13
Best finish: T15, 2019 3M Open
Notes: Played his first full season on TOUR in 2019, finishing 167th in the FedExCup. … Had three top-25s in 25 starts in 2019. … Shot two 61s last season, in the first round of the Sony Open in Hawaii (T43) and second round of the Wyndham Championship (T31). … Owns one Korn Ferry Tour victory, at the 2018 Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at the Abaco Club. … Also won Korn Ferry Tour Q-School by seven shots in 2015. … Represented Canada in the 2014 World Amateur Team Championship. … Won nine of his final 14 starts at Barry University in Miami and played on two NCAA Division II title teams. … Claimed the Phil Mickelson Award as Division II’s top freshman in 2013 and won the Jack Nicklaus Award, given to the top player in each NCAA division, the following year.
GARRETT OSBORN (66)
Age: 34
Hometown: Birmingham, Alabama
Alma mater: UAB
PGA TOUR starts: 10
Cuts made: 1
Best finish: T9, 2014 Sanderson Farms Championship
Notes: Finished in the top-10 at the Sanderson Farms Championship five years ago after Monday qualifying. … Has made 122 career starts on the Korn Ferry Tour, with 51 career made cuts. … … Finished 145th on the Korn Ferry Tour’s Regular Season Points List in 2019, with one top-10 in 17 starts. … Has two third-place finishes in his career the Korn Ferry Tour. … Shot a final-round 62 to finish third in the 2008 Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic. … Finished a career-best 38th on the money list that year, his first season on the tour. … Finished 59th on the money list the following year, but has never cracked the top 100 since. … McDaniel, Svensson and Osborn advanced into the Sanderson in a 4-for-3 playoff. Southern Mississippi junior Brice Wilkinson was the odd man out.
LAST WEEK’S QUALIFIERS
T36. Andrew Novak, 66-69-68-71
MC. Steve Allan, 71-71
MC. Shintaro Ban, 70-73
MC. Conrad Shindler, 73-73
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