Kiwis run at Q school
The $ 1,500,000 PGA Tour Qualifying School is over and done with two rounds and has replaced Kyle Stanley with Chris Baryla’s 61 as its current leader.
With 4 rounds left to decide the winner, the leader board is brimming with bloodthirsty Australian competition and is flooded with five New Zealanders striving between players from USA, Europe and Japan.
The Crooked Cat is thus being charged with opposition from three continents this spell, all striving for the full playing rights to the PGA Tour for 2011 and the second-tier Nationwide Tour.
With the Kiwis looking for a chance to move into the major tours next year, 5 out of 11 make it to the final stage at the Orange National in Florida. The Kiwi line-up, thus holds the likes of Tim Wilkinson, Danny Lee and Josh Geary along with Michael Hendry
and Steven Alker.
According to recent news, only one from the aforementioned five players has been able to show at the PGA Tour 2010. Wilkinson is consequently playing the recent event due to the medical exemption, earned last year, due to his thumb.
More from the line-up, Danny Lee is reported to spend his 2010 spell on the European tour while Steven Alker decided to appear at the Nationwide Tour. As for Josh Geary, he preferred Canada while Michael Hendry managed to display a good form at the OneAsia
Tour and attained victory, once.
According to the leaderboard, currently, Geary is standing on T5 along with Seung Ho Lee at 136 strokes. The Kiwi carded a satisfactory score of 69 initially and added a 67 after the second round of the event. As for Lee, he has been able to card one 74
and then an improved 72 playing with his fellow kiwis at the Crooked Cat course.
From the Panther Lake course, Hendry played a consistent game of 74s while Alker scored a 76 right before a decent score of 74.
All in all the Kiwis have been able to display only an adequate form of golf which makes their survival at Q school a bit questionable. The school was initially swarmed with 11 Kiwi golfers that contracted down to 5 not later than the second round. Now with
the cut for the 2011 PGA Tour playing rights approaching fast, one wonders how far the Kiwis will be able to make it, since the school has record breaking players ruling the leaderboard as compared to lowly 76s scored by the golfers from New Zealand.
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