The golf season is over here at home, but area pros that play for a living are busy heading in a number of directions. Here are some of the goings on:
The final PGA Tour event will be held this week in Orlando with Brad Faxon, Brett Quigley, Brad Adamonis and Patrick Sheehan all taking part. The week is most important for Sheehan.
The Warwick native has fallen to 129th on the money list. He needs a finish in the top 20, perhaps even higher depending on what others do, to get back into the top 125 and maintain full playing privileges for next year.
Adamonis enters 120th. He is in good shap,e but is not home free. If he makes the cut this week, he should be fine. If he misses, he will have to watch what those behind him do and hope he does not drop below 125. He missed the cut last week and lost four spots.
Quigley and Faxon, who will play together in the first two rounds at Disney, are fine for next year. Faxon will have an injury exemption while Quigley is 114th on the money list.
The list of those who hope to join the tour next year has been reduced. The first of the three-stage PGA Tour Qualifying School is over, with mixed results for locals.
Those who have advanced include Attleboro's Jim Renner, Potowomut's Rodney Butcher, URI grad Michael Sims, Johnson & Wales grad Mike Welch and John Elliott, who has lived in Connecticut most of his life but who now lists Westerly as home.
Those who did not make it through the first stage include Quidnessett's Michael Capone, New Bedford's Kevin Silva, Cape Cod's Jason Caron and URI grad Jesse Larson.
The second stage will be held at six sites over the next two weeks. The event that will have the most local interest is one at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Ga., Nov. 12-15.
Tour veteran Billy Andrade is in that field. Andrade must qualify because he did not finish in the top 150 on the money list this year. Newport's Patrick Horgan III is in that field, too, as are part-time Rhode Island resident Len Mattiace, Olin Browne, a former winner of the Deutsche Bank Championship, Pleasant Valley's Fran Quinn, former Northeast Amateur champions Chris Nallen and Kyle Reifers and Jeff Curl, the winner of the last New England Pro Tour event held at Cranston Country Club.
--PAUL KENYON
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he second stage will be held at six sites over the next two weeks. The event that will have the most local interest is one at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Ga., Nov. 12-15.
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