{"id":35294,"date":"2026-09-22T11:29:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/sandy-scott-earns-promotion-to-pga-tour-after-ohio-victory\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:29:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:29:27","slug":"sandy-scott-earns-promotion-to-pga-tour-after-ohio-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/sandy-scott-earns-promotion-to-pga-tour-after-ohio-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Scott earns promotion to PGA Tour after Ohio victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scott battled back from that but withdrew from this season&#8217;s BMW Charity Pro-Am and missed two months of the season after the wrist flared up again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was just getting progressively worse,&#8221; he told the Golf Channel. &#8220;Every day, it was harder to warm up and I was getting a bit more sharp pain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With having a history of having a wrist injury, I&#8217;ve kind of gone through the waves of being unsure about what golf&#8217;s going to look like for me in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I did come back from it in college, I had this overwhelming sense of perspective that I&#8217;m just happy to be out here competing, fulfilling this dream that I&#8217;ve always had of playing golf professionally. To be able to play well has been a bonus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scott started his latest event in 13th place on the tour, but he birdied two of his final three holes to close with a six-under 65 on the Scarlet Course at Ohio State University Golf Club to post 18-under 266 and break the 72-hole tournament record, edging out American John Marshall Butler for the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He becomes the seventh player &#8211; and first European &#8211; to have qualified for the main tour during the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scott had finished 55th in his rookie season on the development tour last year but will next year return to a PGA Tour event for the first time since the 2020 US Open at Winged Foot Golf Club, when he qualified by finishing sixth in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been a weird journey and I&#8217;m just so happy,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cr93ex7vyd27o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott battled back from that but withdrew from this season&#8217;s BMW Charity Pro-Am and missed two months of the season after the wrist flared up again. &#8220;It was just getting progressively worse,&#8221; he told the Golf Channel. &#8220;Every day, it was harder to warm up and I was getting a bit more sharp pain. &#8220;With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35296,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35294\/revisions\/35296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}