Ohio Golf Journal July 2018

Ohio not only hosts the PGA Tour’s Memorial at -UIRÚELD 6ILLAGE THE ,0'!mS Marathon Classic in Toledo and the Symetra Tour’s Prasco Championship in Cincinnati, but it also hosts two Web.com Tour events that have a huge bearing on who earns PGATour cards for the following year. At the end of the Web. com Tour’s regular season 25 players earn PGA Tour PLAYING PRIVILEGES FOR THE NEXT year. This year those will be announced at the regular season-ending event, the Winco Foods Portland Open, held, August 16-19. Once the regular seasonwraps up, the top 75 players from the Web.com Tour money list, plus PGA Tour players WHO ÚNISHED .O ON THE &ED%X #UP 0OINTS LIST ARE invited to the Web.com Tour Final Series to compete for an additional 25 PGA Tour cards. This four-event series creates A UNIQUE MIXTURE OF VETERAN tour professionals and predominantly younger Web. com Tour members, for an intense month of competition. Some will earn promotions, while others will be happy to retain their PGA Tour slots for one more year. 4HE ÚRST TWO EVENTS IN THE Web.com Tour Final Series are played right here in Ohio. The Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship will be held,August 23-26atOhioState University’s Scarlet Course. The following week the DAP Championship will host the SAMEÚELDAT HISTORIC#ANTERBURY Country Club in Cleveland. The third event in the series is the Albertson’s Boise Open and THE ÚNAL EVENT THE 7EB COM Tour Championship is held at Atlantic Beach Country Club in Atlantic Beach, Florida. %ACH OF THE ÚNAL FOUR tournaments offer a one Ohio Hosts Two Web.com Tour Events Ohio Golf Journal