Meet The 50
Quick-hit profiles of the 50 players to receive their PGA TOUR cards for 2017-18 via the Web.com Tour

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October 02, 2017
By Nick Parker, Kevin Prise and Royce Thompson, PGATOUR.COM
Quick-hit profiles of the 50 players to receive their PGA TOUR cards for 2017-18 via the Web.com Tour
ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. — The 2017 Web.com Tour season concluded on Monday in Atlantic Beach, Florida, as the Web.com Tour Championship wrapped up the fifth annual Web.com Tour Finals. Five-time PGA TOUR winner Jonathan Byrd won the Tour’s season-ending event, where 25 players secured their TOUR cards for the 2017-18 season.
The first set of 25 PGA TOUR cards for the 2017-18 season was issued at the conclusion of the WinCo Foods Portland Open presented by Kraft-Heinz in August, with a second set of 25 solidified at the conclusion of the Finals.
Chesson Hadley, who won the PGA TOUR’s Puerto Rico Open in 2014 on his way to securing Rookie of the Year honors, returned to the Web.com Tour this year after losing his status following the 2015-16 season. The former Georgia Tech standout, who won the Web.com Tour Championship in 2013, notched victories at the LECOM Health Challenge in July and Albertsons Boise Open presented by Kraft Nabisco last month on his way to winning both the Regular Season and Finals money lists. The 30-year-old is the first player in the five-year history of the Web.com Tour Finals to win both money lists.
By virtue of winning both money titles, Hadley is in turn the only player to earn fully exempt status on the PGA TOUR next year, which includes a spot in THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass, located just minutes from Atlantic Beach.
Peter Uihlein, who earned his first Web.com Tour title at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship, finished second to Hadley on the Finals-only money list with $185,863 in earnings. The former No. 1-ranked amateur in the world earned his spot in the Web.com Tour Finals via non-member FedExCup points, thanks to three top-25 finishes, including a season-best T5 at the Puerto Rico Open in March.
Byrd wound up third on the Finals money list after his Web.com Tour Championship title, while DAP Championship winner Nicholas Lindheim secured a return to the PGA TOUR this fall via the Finals as well.
Five of the 25 players who secured their PGA TOUR cards solely through the Web.com Tour Finals will be rookies during the 2017-18 season.
Finishing 26th on the Finals money list was Canadian Adam Svensson, who earned $37,937 to finish $2,888 behind Seamus Power. Svensson, who was the medalist at Web.com Tour Q-School in 2015, entered the week at No. 17 on the Finals-only money list, but fell nine spots after a missed cut.
The 50 players ranked, in order, following the conclusion of the Web.com Tour Finals are:
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2010 Georgia Tech alum. Won this year's LECOM Health Challenge and Albertsons Boise Open presented by Kraft Nabisco. Six top-10s this season. Previously graduated from Web.com Tour in 2013.