And he wins by one shot!!! Makes par on 18 after hitting the fairway bunker. Clutch.
https://www.pgatour.com/webcom/leaderboard.html
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1094735832437657600
Great result. For those who don't know much about him (like me until the last 5 minutes) he won the Dan Halldorson trophy for Canadian Player of the Year on the Canadian tour in 2018. He's 29 years old from Burlington (no word on whether he is a Walk Off the Earth fan). Has Sean Foley as his swing coach.
https://www.pgatour.com/canada/en_us...ear-award.html
https://www.pgatour.com/canada/en_us...-com-tour.html
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Nearly two decades after first meeting Gligic, Foley still coaches him and echoes Gligic’s confidence.
“It’s a story about an extremely good player who hasn’t had a lot of breaks. To watch him go and get to 25-under at the final stage of Q-school, that’s right where he should be,” says Foley, who’s become a mentor and friend to Gligic as well as a swing coach. “If he’s given that many opportunities with that good of a card, I don’t see how he can’t finish inside the top 25 (on the money list). He’s just too good of a scorer and has such a good skill set.”
In total, Gligic’s journey to the Web.com Tour has included more than 100 mini-tour events and 62 Mackenzie Tour events—88 if you include his 26 Canadian Tour starts from before the Mackenize Tour’s inception, in 2013. He’ll be the first to tell you the path to the Tour is only getting more difficult.
“There are a lot of kids coming up that are working their butts off and pushing everyone else to have to keep up,” says Gligic. “There are so many different tools and ways to do it; coaches and personal trainers and sports psychologists and swing coaches and short-game coaches and Trackman. Guys are working so hard because you pretty much have to.”
Gligic began his season Sunday in the Bahamas and, based on his Q-School performance, is guaranteed eight starts before being subject to the first reshuffle. Play well, and he’ll continue getting in tournaments. His friend Foley will be watching closely.
“I could have a player with a putt to win the Masters, and my heartbeat would be 50,” says Foley. “If Mike Gligic has a chance to win with two holes left on the Web.com Tour, I will probably be throwing up.”
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