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Another 59 on Korn Ferry Tour! Myles Creighton chips in to break 60
Another Korn Ferry Tour round, another sub-60 score. This time it was Myles Creighton, who fired an 11-under 59 in Saturday's third round of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Wichita Open. Creighton's performance, which was capped by a chip-in birdie, comes just two days after Adrien Dumont de Chassart shot 59 in Thursday's first round at Crestview Country Club. Unlike Dumont de Chassart's 59, Creighton achieved his score without preferred lies in effect. There have now been 15 scores of 59 or better in KFT history, seven of which have come in the past three seasons. It's also the second time that there have been two sub-60 scores in the same tournament, following the 2024 Astara Golf Championship, where Cristobal del Solar carded a record 57 in the opening round before Aldrich Potgieter followed with a 59 the next day. Creighton parred the par-4 first hole before rattling off four straight birdies. He bogeyed the par-4 eighth but sandwiched that with birdies at Nos. 7 and 9 to notch a front-nine 30. His inward 29 included four straight birdies as well, at Nos. 13-16, before his final-hole heroics at the par-4 18th. CHIP-IN FOR 59!!! Myles Creighton with a shot of the year contender. Creighton's 59 pushed him to 15 under for the tournament. He led by a shot when he finished his round, though the lead groups were just making the turn. Pierceson Coody eagled the par-4 11th to jump Creighton and move to 16 under. The 29-year-old Creighton, a Canadian who turned pro out of Radford in 2018, entered the week No. 74 in KFT points. This is his second season on the KFT after he finished second in points during the 2023 PGA Tour Latinoamerica campaign. His previous low round in PGA Tour-sanctioned competition was 62.
NBC Sports
3 days ago
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Adrien Dumont de Chassart becomes latest Korn Ferry Tour player to break 60
Adrien Dumont de Chassart called it a 'good day to shoot 59.' As if there's ever a bad day. The 25-year-old Belgian fired the 14th sub-60 score in Korn Ferry Tour history, an 11-under 59 in Thursday's opening round of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Wichita Open. Dumont de Chassart took advantage of preferred lies and ideal conditions (temperatures in the low 80s, single-digit wind) at Crestview Country Club, which was damaged earlier this week after severe weather ripped through the Wichita area. Dumont de Chassart carded 12 birdies and one bogey as he took the lead by four shots following the morning wave. He hit three greens in under regulation, including on both par-5s. When he birdied the second hole to reach 7 under for his round, he began thinking about breaking 60. Having never broken 61 before in his career, Dumont de Chassart missed a short birdie putt on the par-4 seventh before sticking a 6-iron close at the par-3 eighth for his last birdie of the round. 'I'm glad I had my chance, and I took it,' said Dumont de Chassart, who didn't make a putt longer than 25 feet and missed only three fairways. 'If I can hit the ball in play, I feel like I can compete at any level,' he added. Dumont de Chassart's 59 was the sixth sub-60 score on the KFT in the last three seasons. Cristobal del Solar owns the KFT record for lowest round, shooting 13-under 57 at last year's Astara Golf Championship. Frankie Capan III and Stephan Jaeger have each carded 58s on the KFT. A University of Illinois product, Dumont de Chassart graduated from the KFT after just one summer two years ago. But he made just 12 of 27 cuts and ended up 164th in FedExCup points to lose his PGA Tour card. He's currently 33rd in KFT points entering this week.
Yahoo
02-06-2025
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Josele Ballester declines Korn Ferry Tour membership via PGA Tour U
Josele Ballester won't be playing the Korn Ferry Tour this summer. The recent Arizona State grad, who recently capped his college career with a T-4 finish at the NCAA Championship and a quarterfinal exit by the Sun Devils, officially declined the KFT membership he received as the No. 3 finisher in the PGA Tour University rankings, has learned. Advertisement With Ballester declining membership, several PGA Tour U grads improved their status. Texas A&M's Phichaksn Maichon was bumped to fifth, which comes with a full KFT card and now an exemption into final stage of PGA Tour Q-School this December. LSU's Algot Kleen moves to No. 10, now receiving full KFT membership in addition to his exemption into second stage of Q-School. Ole Miss' Kye Meeks goes from nothing to No. 25 and full PGA Tour Americas status. Auburn's Brendan Valdes, Florida's Ian Gilligan, Vanderbilt's Jackson Van Paris, Arizona State's Preston Summerhays, Louisville's Sebastian Moss and UCLA teammates Omar Morales and Pablo Ereno are the other newly minted KFT members from this PGA Tour U class. North Carolina's David Ford won the PGA Tour U points list this season – Ballester was in the running for this until Ford won three straight events in the spring – to earn his PGA Tour card for the next season and a half. He made his pro debut two weeks ago at Colonial and will join Gordon Sargent and Luke Clanton, two PGA Tour U Accelerated achievers, in this week's field at the RBC Canadian Open. Auburn's Jackson Koivun also has earned 20 points through Accelerated, though he's returning for his junior year.
NBC Sports
02-06-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Josele Ballester declines Korn Ferry Tour membership via PGA Tour U
Josele Ballester won't be playing the Korn Ferry Tour this summer. The recent Arizona State grad, who recently capped his college career with a T-4 finish at the NCAA Championship and a quarterfinal exit by the Sun Devils, officially declined the KFT membership he received as the No. 3 finisher in the PGA Tour University rankings, has learned. With Ballester declining membership, several PGA Tour U grads improved their status. Texas A&M's Phichaksn Maichon was bumped to fifth, which comes with a full KFT card and now an exemption into final stage of PGA Tour Q-School this December. LSU's Algot Kleen moves to No. 10, now receiving full KFT membership in addition to his exemption into second stage of Q-School. Ole Miss' Kye Meeks goes from nothing to No. 25 and full PGA Tour Americas status. Auburn's Brendan Valdes, Florida's Ian Gilligan, Vanderbilt's Jackson Van Paris, Arizona State's Preston Summerhays, Louisville's Sebastian Moss and UCLA teammates Omar Morales and Pablo Ereno are the other newly minted KFT members from this PGA Tour U class. North Carolina's David Ford won the PGA Tour U points list this season – Ballester was in the running for this until Ford won three straight events in the spring – to earn his PGA Tour card for the next season and a half. He made his pro debut two weeks ago at Colonial and will join Gordon Sargent and Luke Clanton, two PGA Tour U Accelerated achievers, in this week's field at the RBC Canadian Open. Auburn's Jackson Koivun also has earned 20 points through Accelerated, though he's returning for his junior year.
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02-06-2025
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Son of a PGA Tour winner, Canadian teen and investment banker qualify for RBC Canadian Open
Just a couple weeks after making his Korn Ferry Tour debut, Cristian DiMarco is moving on up to the big time. The 29-year-old son of three-time PGA Tour winner and former U.S. Ryder Cupper Chris DiMarco, carded five birdies and two bogeys and shot 3-under 68 at The Pulpit Club on Sunday to take medalist honors at the RBC Canadian Open qualifier. In doing so, he earned one of four open spots into the field of 156 and secured his first start at a PGA Tour event. [It was held on Sunday rather than Monday to make way for U.S. Open Final Qualifying.] Advertisement DiMarco, who played his college golf at University of South Florida and remains a Tampa resident, previously played on the PGA Tour Latinoamerica in 2019 and 2022, making just one cut each year, and PGA Tour Canada in 2023, where he also managed to make just one cut in five starts. But he recently Monday qualified for the KFT's AdventHealth Championship and made the cut, finishing T-45. A southpaw who putts right-handed, DiMarco earned a spot in the field at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (North Course) in Caledon, Ontario. DiMarco's father, 56, who lost to Tiger Woods in a playoff at the 2005 Masters and to Vijay Singh at the 2004 PGA Championship, played in the RBC Canadian Open 17 times, including recording a T-9 in 1998. Yi Cao and Josh Goldenberg both made five birdies and three bogeys and tied for second at 2-under 69. Like DiMarco, Goldenberg had never made a start even in a KFT event and started a job in March at investment bank Goldman Sachs. But with the qualifier being held on Sunday, he decided to give it a go. 'A dream come true,' he told Moday Q Info's Ryan French. Eighteen-year-old Canadian amateur Matthew Javier, a Team Canada NextGen member, overcame a double bogey to shoot 70 and won a two-for-one playoff for the final spot over Toronto's Mark Hoffman. Advertisement The RBC Canadian Open begins on Thursday. Robert MacIntyre is the defending champion. This article originally appeared on Golfweek: RBC Canadian Open 2025: Qualifying results, scores, highlights
