INVERNESS-BORN US PGA TOUR PLAYER HAS MADE A MILLION DOLLARS THIS SEASON
KNOX EARNS $58,453 FOR
JT 21st PLACE ON SUNDAY
Balgownie-bound for the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open, Russell Knox earned $58,453 for a joint 21st place finish in the Crowne Plaza Invitational tournament which finished at the Colonial Country Club, Fort Worth, Texas on Sunday.
The Inverness-born player, who has never played professional golf in the land of his birth - he turned pro in America after completing four successful years at Jacksonville University, had rounds of 71, 70, 66 and 69 for a total of four-under par 276 over the par-71 course.
He finished five shots behind the play-off participants, Adam Scott (Australia) and Jason Duffner (United States).
Knox has now earned a total of $1,247,924 in US PGA Tour events this season and has gone up one place from 48th to 47th in the current money table.
Martin Laird, the only other Scot on the US PGA Tour, finished joint 30th on 277 (70-69-69-69) on Sunday and earned $37,200. He is 155th on the money table with a total of $336,968.
A third Scot playing golf for a living on the No 2 men's tour in the States, Dornoch exile Jimmy Gunn has not set the heather on fire in the Web.com Tour.
He missed the cut in the weekend's Rex Hospital Open at TPC Wakefield Plantation, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Gunn shot 73-76 for 149, eight shots too many to make the cut.
Gunn is 88th on the Web.com Tour money table this year with earnings of $20,904, which roughly equates to £10,000. That does not go far when you are travelling the length and breadth of America and down to South America earlier on the schedule.
The standard of play on the Web.com Tour is as high as that on the US PGA Tour - but the big difference is that the cheques are smaller.
For instance, the winner of the Rex Hospital Open, Byron Smith, with a 16-under-par total of 268 (70-69-63-66), won "only" $112,500.
Compare that with the million dollars + payslip received by Adam Scott for winning the US PGA Tour event in Texas on Sunday.
JT 21st PLACE ON SUNDAY
Balgownie-bound for the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open, Russell Knox earned $58,453 for a joint 21st place finish in the Crowne Plaza Invitational tournament which finished at the Colonial Country Club, Fort Worth, Texas on Sunday.
The Inverness-born player, who has never played professional golf in the land of his birth - he turned pro in America after completing four successful years at Jacksonville University, had rounds of 71, 70, 66 and 69 for a total of four-under par 276 over the par-71 course.
He finished five shots behind the play-off participants, Adam Scott (Australia) and Jason Duffner (United States).
Knox has now earned a total of $1,247,924 in US PGA Tour events this season and has gone up one place from 48th to 47th in the current money table.
Martin Laird, the only other Scot on the US PGA Tour, finished joint 30th on 277 (70-69-69-69) on Sunday and earned $37,200. He is 155th on the money table with a total of $336,968.
A third Scot playing golf for a living on the No 2 men's tour in the States, Dornoch exile Jimmy Gunn has not set the heather on fire in the Web.com Tour.
He missed the cut in the weekend's Rex Hospital Open at TPC Wakefield Plantation, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Gunn shot 73-76 for 149, eight shots too many to make the cut.
Gunn is 88th on the Web.com Tour money table this year with earnings of $20,904, which roughly equates to £10,000. That does not go far when you are travelling the length and breadth of America and down to South America earlier on the schedule.
The standard of play on the Web.com Tour is as high as that on the US PGA Tour - but the big difference is that the cheques are smaller.
For instance, the winner of the Rex Hospital Open, Byron Smith, with a 16-under-par total of 268 (70-69-63-66), won "only" $112,500.
Compare that with the million dollars + payslip received by Adam Scott for winning the US PGA Tour event in Texas on Sunday.
Labels: US PGA TOUR
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