Harrison Endycott regains full PGA Tour status
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Sydney’s Harrison Endycott is back on the PGA Tour next season following the completion of 72 holes of PGA Tour Qualifying in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida this morning.
Endycott was forced to wait 24 hours longer than originally scheduled after inclement weather saw play postponed on Sunday, but he added a final round of 67 today to extend his winning margin to four and claim one of the precious PGA Tour cards given to the leading five players and ties.
“Yeah, obviously a win is a win. It’s great to go do the job over four days,” said Endycott.
“It was a tough grinding year, rookie year on TOUR, and you learn a lot out there. Sometimes it’s good to take a step back, and we went through all our stats after RSM and managed to really point out and pick out why we were in that category, whether it’s wedge dispersion, some course management decisions and some putting.
“It’s great that the PGA TOUR give us — can provide that information for us. We just picked up what we needed to get better, did some really good work over the last few weeks, and it’s nice to come out and get a win.”
Endycott becomes the 4th Australian to earn medallist honours at PGA Tour School following in the footsteps of Brett Ogle, Neale Smith and Stephen Allan.
Endycott had come off a stretch where he missed eight of his last nine cuts on the PGA Tour so to turn things around in such a crucial week has been particularly impressive, especially with the pressure of leading or sharing the lead throughout.
Endycott completed his rookie PGA Tour season in 139th place on the FedEx Cup table and while he would have gained several starts from that category he would have had to do so without the certainty of knowing when those starts might come.
The former Eisenhower Trophy winner and a winner on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2022, now gets the opportunity to capitalize on what he has learned from his first year on the PGA Tour as he heads into 2024.
Endycott will also earn US$50,000 for his work but more importantly, he has his full playing rights back.
John Lyras was the next best of the Australasians in 54th place after recovering from a horror round of 78 on the opening day on Thursday.
