Andrew Novak pulled 69 to move in solo second, Keith Mitchell posted 73
Two -minute exercise: Florida Gators in Final Four; winter teams in all areas
The Gators will face Auburn on Saturday with a big in the match for the national online title; The teams from the entire secondary region for winter are there.
- Valero Texas Open, the last tournament before the Masters, ends on Sunday in TPC San Antonio Oaks.
- Andrew Novak, who pulled a 69 on Saturday, is second at 9 sous and needs a victory to obtain a place in the Masters.
- Brian Harman leads the tournament at 12 sous, while Keith Mitchell, in search of a masterpiece, is in fourth place at 7 sous.
A tour is left in the PGA Tour’s Valero Texas Open Sunday during TPC San Antonio Oaks.
For a handful of players, it is a turn of a possible invitation to Masters tournament.
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Andrew Novak is in the best position among the players who need a victory to obtain an invitation to the master next week. On a windy and dark day in San Antonio, Novak posted one of the only two scores in the 1960s when he failed five of the six holes during a nine rear section and pulled 69 to finish alone in the second with 9 under 207.
Keith Mitchell (73), who is in fourth place at 7 years old, also needs to win for an invitation from the masters.
Andrew Novak is the pride of Wofford College
Novak is three strokes behind the leader Brian Harman (72). Novak allowed an iron after the other through the wind at the back to install four 8 -foot or less stewed putts, and another of almost 15 feet which started its race at the last group at n ° 11.
Novak, one of the many players on the tour to settle in St. Simons Island, in Georgia, is to become the best player than the Wofford College golf program has ever produced. It is only the second of this small school in South Carolina to win a PGA Tour card, after William McGirt.
McGirt always has one thing on Novak: a victory for the PGA Tour, at the 2016 Memorial. Novak could have come the second former Wofford to win during the tour, and he would have the additional bonus to get him into the Masters.
Who else is in the running for an invitation from masters?
Sami Valimaki (70), Chad Ramey (70) and Ryo Hisatsune (73) are tied at 6-210 and are six strokes behind Harman. Three players not yet eligible for masters are tied in 10th row in 4-Under, Francesco Molinari (72), Alejandro Tosti (71), Hendrik Norland (73) and Emiliano Grillo (74).
But it would take an extraordinary collapse of Harman, Novak, third place Tom Hoge (68 for the only round without Bogey of the day) or Mitchell to open the door to anyone.
How often do players earn the previous week to do the teachers?
This has occurred frequently from the Texas Open and the Houston Open was the events of PGA Tour before the Masters from 2007.
Nine players won one or the other tournament the previous week to make masters’ field since 2008, a period of 17 years (Masters ends in parentheses):
- 2024: Akshay Bhatia, Texas Open (T35)
- 2022: JJ SPAUN, Texas Open (T23)
- 2019: Corey Conners, Texas Open (T40)
- 2018: Ian Poulter, Houston Open (T44)
- 2017: Russell Henley, Houston Open (T11)
- 2016: Jim Herman, Houston Open (MC)
- 2014: Matt Jones, Houston Open (MC)
- 2013: Martin Laird, Texas Open (MC)
- 2008: Johnson Wagner, Houston Open (T36)
How often do players earn the week before winning masters?
It happened four times:
- 2006: Phil Mickelson (Bellsouth Classic)
- 1988: Sandy Lyle (Greater Greensboro Open)
- 1959: Art Wall (Azalea Open)
- 1939: Ralph Guldahl (Greater Greensboro Open)
