Las Vegan earns promotion to PGA Tour after solid season

David Lipsky is officially headed to the PGA Tour this fall, but for different Las Vegans connected the Korn Ferry Tour, determination is much enactment to beryllium done if they anticipation to marque the leap this season.

Lipsky finished 12th connected the play points list, giving him 1 of 25 promotions to the large leagues pursuing the regular-season finale Sunday successful Omaha, Nebraska. A victor connected the European and Asian tours successful the past fewer years, Lipsky volition beryllium a PGA Tour subordinate for the archetypal time.

Lipsky’s promotion Sunday was a formality. He had wrapped up his spot during a play successful which helium won successful San Antonio and posted 3 second-place finishes, including astatine the MGM Resorts Championship astatine Paiute successful April.

“I couldn’t beryllium much excited,” Lipsky said. “I’m looking guardant to playing connected the circuit and being wherever I’ve ever wanted to beryllium since I turned pro and since I was a small kid.”

While Sunday was a time of solemnisation for Lipsky, it was 1 of heartbreak for Taylor Montgomery. The erstwhile UNLV standout missed his paper by the narrowest of margins, slipping from 24th to 26th successful the points race.

Montgomery was done successful by an opening-round 77 connected Thursday and a missed cut, leaving his spot vulnerable. His destiny wasn’t sealed until the last spread of the tournament, erstwhile David Skinns made a miraculous par prevention to triumph by 1 changeable and leap from 46th to 22nd to bump Montgomery.

But each isn’t mislaid for Montgomery, who has 1 much accidental to articulation the PGA Tour adjacent season. The apical 75 connected the Korn Ferry database and those who finished astatine Nos. 126 to 200 connected the PGA Tour this play volition play the Korn Ferry Tour Finals implicit the adjacent 3 weeks, with the apical 25 finishers implicit those events besides earning PGA Tour cards.

Joining Montgomery successful those events volition beryllium his erstwhile UNLV teammate Harry Hall, who finished 40th connected the play list.

Hall is taking a affirmative cognition into the Finals, wherever helium says the options are playing good and earning his PGA Tour card, oregon falling abbreviated and having a guaranteed spot connected the Korn Ferry Tour adjacent season.

“I’ll enactment my bosom connected the line. I’ll combat for each changeable and nary substance the outcome, I’ll proceed my journey,” helium told followers connected his Instagram account.

For different players with Las Vegas ties, their representation isn’t truthful clear. Derek Ernst (118), John Oda (124), Alex Kang (135) and Andres Gonzales (172) failed to marque the Finals and volition person to instrumentality to the Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament to effort to gain a spot to play successful 2022.

Chip shots

— Riana Mission and Blake Schaper were honored this period arsenic the apical pistillate and antheral precocious schoolhouse golfers successful Nevada arsenic portion of the USA Today High School Sports Awards. Mission, who won the 2019 authorities rubric portion astatine Clark High School, volition play this twelvemonth astatine the University of San Francisco. Schaper, who won the Class 3A Southern Regionals rubric this twelvemonth astatine Boulder City, volition play for South Dakota State.

— Glenn Hogle birdied the 18th spread to sprout 1-under 70 and triumph the U.S. Senior Amateur qualifier astatine SouthShore Country Club. Gary Carpendale is archetypal alternate aft a 71. The tourney begins Aug. 28 astatine the Country Club of Detroit.

Greg Robertson is simply a freelance newsman who covers play for the Review-Journal. He tin beryllium reached astatine robertsongt@gmail.com.