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JogginFrog

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Springer was 2 off the cutline with 4 holes to play but has pulled one back and needs a birdie on his final 2 holes to get to the weekend and hang onto a chance to retain his card.

Update: Springer birdies his 17th and gets up and down on his 18th to make the cut (probably on the number). He'll need a strong weekend to move back into the top 125, but he has a chance!
 
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JogginFrog

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Avoiding a trip back to Q School is one of the highest-pressure situations in pro golf, and Hayden Springer seems to have a clutch gene. After making two late birdies yesterday to make the cut on the number, he's reeled off 6 birdies in 7 holes on the back nine today (longest putt: 18 feet) to move into the top 15. He now projects to move inside the top 125 and keep his Tour card...but there's 19 more holes to play and a bunch of guys still on the course.

Update: Springer pars the last for a 63.
 
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JogginFrog

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Springer is +1 on the day through 14. He'll need to pull back at least 2 shots--and maybe 3--on his last 4 holes to avoid Q School.

Update: He birdied 15 and 18, but rinsed his drive on 16, which sunk his chances. He will likely finish T30 for the week, not quite good enough to get into the top 125. But he made it through Q School last season, and he earned $1 million this season, so he's got a good foundation to work from.

Update 2: Post-round comments from Springer: https://www.nbcsports.com/golf/news...tional-sundays-of-joel-dahmen-hayden-springer

Update 3: A piece in The Fried Egg Monday pointed out that Joel Dahmen and Zac Blair both gained points through sponsor exemptions awarded during the last 4 weeks of the season that essentially made the difference in bumping Springer outside the top 125. Did Dahmen also bump Springer by beating him this past weekend? Yes. So, the lesson is: Play better...and/or market yourself better.
 
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JogginFrog

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Belated congrats to TCU alum Jacob Skov Olesen, who was among the 21 card-winners out of the 156-man field in the Euro Tour Q School last month. He was in contention to win the tournament through 5 days, then survived a shaky final round to get through on the number. The result led him to give up his amateur status and 2025 Masters invite (as British Am champ) in order to play full time on the DP World Tour. He then went to Australia, where he MC'd in Queensland and finished T27 at the Australian Open.

Interview after earning his card: https://www.europeantour.com/dpworl...l/school-s-out-the-story-of-final-stage-2024/
 
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JogginFrog

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Hoge T1 after Round 1 of the Sony.

In AZ, Scott Roden has posted a pair of top-5 finishes at 54-hole mid-winter amateur events with fields of 76 and 127 players. Hudson Wilt also posted a top 5.

In Portugal, Sofia Barroso Sa won the women's division of two mid-winter events, posting 54-hole scores of 213 and 210. These were co-ed events with only about 10 women in each field, but she beat her closest female competitor by 7 shots and 10 shots, and while I'm sure the women were playing up a tee box, her scores against the co-ed field were T5 and solo 2nd.
 
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TCU commit Nate Miller gets 15 seconds of fame (see 2:25ish) in a brief YouTube appearance in a Wesley Brothers/Grant Horvath vid. Apparently 25 collegians signed up for a retreat with those guys, who turned it into content by having the 25 compete for one of 3 slots in a 5 hole challenge competition with the hosts.

Miller made the cut into the top 7 by draining a 12-foot putt but was not among the 3 closest to the pin who made it into the challenge.
 
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