Mission accomplished for Luck - PGA of Australia

Mission accomplished for Luck


Western Australia’s Curtis Luck made a bold run at the Web.com Tour Q-School but despite coming up just shy of victory achieved his major goal, to improve his eligibility ranking for the 2018 season.

Western Australia’s Curtis Luck made a bold run at the Web.com Tour Q-School but despite coming up just shy of victory achieved his major goal, to improve his eligibility ranking for the 2018 season.

"CurtisLuck’s performances in several tournament invitations on the PGA TOUR in 2017 saw him earn enough money to play the final stage of the Q-School and while a win would have secured full status his T3 result assures him the next best thing.

The medallist at the 72-hole tournament receives unrestricted access for 2018 while players finishing 2-10 receive a free pass for the first 12 events of the season before being re-shuffled based on performance. Those finishing 11-45 are part of a reshuffle after eight events.

Luck was one of four Australians in the field in Arizona but the only one to finish inside the coveted top-45 positions, Ray Beaufils T73, Brett Drewitt T85 and Emirates Australian Open champion Cameron Davis T113.

Luck shared the lead at the low scoring tournament with eight holes to go after posting a brilliant 5-under effort on the front-9.

Having started the day four shots behind co-leaders Lee McCoy of America and Korea’s Sung-jae Im, Luck quickly made inroads with three straight birdies to begin his round and a sixth of the day at the 10th had him in prime position.

But in an event where low scoring was a feature all week a bogey at the par-5 12th was a momentum killer, a second dropped shot two holes later effectively ending his chances of winning.

A final birdie of the week at the 16th saw Luck sign for a 67 and with opening scores of 67-64-68 his 22-under total was eventually six shots shy of winner McCoy.

For the other three Australians it was a disappointing finish to the week and while all earn limited status simply for making it to final stage it is unlikely they will earn many starts.

It will be a particularly difficult pill for Davis to swallow after his emotional Emirates Australian Open win, the 22-year-old posting rounds of 72-68-69-74 to be 5-under.


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